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Evil is like a shadow - it has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it.
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When the states go marching in… The media looks away

Posted in Politics by Riskable on the April 27th, 2006

Today I learned that Vermont legislators have introduced their own resolution to impeach Bush. Then I thought to myself, “Wow! That’s three states doing this. The media must be covering the story now.” Nope.

I did my check of the major news sources… Nothing. Though, Boston.com (the web arm of the Boston Globe) is pretty big. The story is definitely building momentum.

I also have to mention that when I checked the Politics section on FoxNews.com I had quite a laugh. Here I was, checking to see if Fox (the news organization that is so pro-Bush he hired one of their reporters to be his Press Secretary) would have coverage of the Vermont impeachment resolution and lo and behold, the front-page story is, “Series of Setbacks Angers Religious Right”. Now that is just classic! The tag line for the story is this:

Citing a lack of progress on social issues, fiscal indiscipline in Congress and scandals among lawmakers, some conservative grassroots leaders say enthusiasm is waning among ‘values’ voters.

Lack of progress on social issues? The text of the article is surreal. Here you have an organization claiming to be reporting “news” with a front-page story (note: not a column) completely making up a meaningless “story”. There’s absolutely no event associated with the article. The “Religious Right” didn’t have a convention. They didn’t have a rally. No major religious conservative leader gave a speech this morning. They’re not even commenting on any recent past events!

Fox is making up news. Are they pulling at strings to report anything other than the impeachment proceedings?

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