Curious

So anyway I oh-so-much wanted to fisk some articles about the whole "Forgerygate" thing, but by now, late Saturday night / early Sunday morning, it's all been done before. Everyone and their sister has covered this story. As I plow about the Internet tonight, it appears that bloggers took the lead in de-bunking the fake documents. Hooray for us! This may well be the event / story that propells the "New Media" to the forefront. (The links are out there, do your own Google work, dammit. Keywords are "Powerline", "Little Green Footballs", "Rachel Lucas". That should get you started.)

Besides, the edition of Pravda for Moscow on the Huron hasn't run a single story about the revalation of the fakeness of the document(s). I believe I'll be giving the front page of the Sunday AnnArbor News a detailed going over in the morning.

Is it just me, or is Blogspot's spellchecker funked out? I mean, it didn't even blink on "Forgerygate".

I have been seeing a lot of GWB campaign billboards in the past couple of days, and I like them. Simply stated "one-liners" on a red / white / blue background with the Bush/Cheney '04 logo in the lower RH corner. My favorite so far is "Remember, it's your money". There was one stressing the importance of National Security, one doing a bit of bible thumping, and another that said "Boots or flip-flops?" Now that I think about it, "Boots or flip-flops?" is my favorite.

I am much more pleased with this ad campaign that I was with the GWB ads in the spring and early summer. The use of 11 September images, by anyone, for any reason, pisses me off. I voted against those ads at the VRWC general convention; my point being: if the democrats had a campaign ad using 11 September images, we in the VRWC would be screaming bloody murder about their using such images for political gain. I'm not going to give the rebublicans a free pass to bandy about Black Tuesday images either.