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Another prominent demmie indicted recently. Apparently corruption is not limited to our grand state. See the article here.

The funniest thing to me about this story and the Blagojevich story is how the media hardly ever says "democrat" Rod Blago, or "democrat" so and so is indicted on counts of X and Y. But whenever a republican runs into trouble, you can never hear their name without "republican" in front of it. The article above doesn't mention the word democrat until the fourth paragraph.

After Blagojevich was impeached I thought it was quite hilarious reading the comments from the one person in the Illinois house who voted against impeachment.

This from CBS:

"The one lawmaker voting against impeachment was Rep. Milton Patterson, a Chicago Demorcrat who represents the South Side. Rep Elga Jefferies, also a Chicago Democrat, voted present.

Patterson said he wasn't defending anyone, but that he read the impeachment committee's report and wasn't comfortable voting against the governor. "I have no firsthand knowledge of any of the evidence," he said.

'I went by my own gut feeling, it's as simple as that,' he said. 'I read the report. If the government is going to indict him, let them go ahead and do that. That's their job and I'm doing my job.'"

CBS also noted - quite accurately - that Illinois has become the laughing stock of the country. With comments like the above, it's quite easy to see why.

CBS then tried to get the focus back on Obama and away from his friend Blago by quoting several Chicago dems who were frantically trying to re-associate Illinois with the chosen one. Shifting focus and reality is a common tool used by the media, cleverly emphasized by Mark Steyn this past week:

"In Paris, the state-owned TV network France-2 broadcasts film of dozens of dead Palestinians killed in an Israeli air raid on New Year's Day. The channel subsequently admits that, in fact, the footage is not from Jan. 1, 2009, but from 2005, and, while the corpses are certainly Palestinian, they were killed when a truck loaded with Hamas explosives detonated prematurely while leaving the Jabaliya refugee camp in another of those unfortunate work-related accidents to which Gaza is sadly prone. Conceding that the Palestinians supposedly killed by Israel were, alas, killed by Hamas, France-2 says the footage was broadcast 'accidentally.'"

Fascinatingly enough, I discovered that the president elect is a smoker. Did you know that? What is interesting about this to me is not that he smokes, quite heavily apparently, but that I didn't know this until about a week ago. I have read and/or watched the news in which Obama was the focal point for the past 6 months. Apparently the new savior of America and humanity has an incredible staff to bend and blur reality to portray an image rather than facts. The modern-day media is the result of not seeking truth. It is a result of obeying agenda-driven individuals. Which is why the media, particularly print media, is intellectually bankrupt and speeding toward financial bankruptcy.

Cheers.