“It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into”

Jonathan Swift
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"The Democrats have moved to the right, and the right has moved into a mental hospital." - Bill Maher
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"The city is crowded my friends are away and I'm on my own
It's too hot to handle so I gotta get up and go

It's a cruel ... cruel summer"

Thursday, September 30, 2004

fair and balanced

Here is the front page of today's Amarillo Globe-News. Here is the front page of the Amarillo Globe-News on 18 September 2004, the day after John Kerry's last rally in New Mexico. Hell, here's the archived list of stories for that day.

Okay, I realize that hurricanes were still a big story way back in the heady days of mid-September, but the editors found room on the front page for the Tri-State Fair and the high school football scores. They also found room for a pathos-laden hagiography about an Amarillo-native reservist-- a "Palo Duro High School graduate and former paper carrier"-- that pushes the Bush Administration's story that Iraq is being "rebuilt."

SPACEDARK