Kill the Messengers

The American press corps, the TV blatherpots, and especially the scandal-massagers at FOX have all really dropped the ball on all these GOP sex pervs lately. These are the same people who couldn't get enough of one cum-stained blue dress, right? Now they have a sitting Senator who likes to piss and shit himself while prostitutes diaper him; and one who wants another man to blow him in a public restroom. Why isn't Bill O'Reilly sniffing Larry Craig's loafers for the scent of jizz or Astro-glide? (Maybe because O'Reilly himself is a sex criminal who settled out of court?)

No hysterics over how damaging to US politics and governments these incidents will be; no wailing about how our debauched representatives send the wrong message to our children, the furriners, or the terrists. Nope, when the Republicans get caught with their pants down, it's purely--as far as the press is concerned--a political issue: how will the party respond? what will the leadership do? is this even an issue worthy of discussion? (the media's suggestions to GOP leadership so far are: expel the fag, keep the adulterous baby: that's called "ideological consistency;" dissemble, dissemble, dissemble; NO.)

Only Democrats, it seems, are held to a high standard in this regard--which is ironic, since liberals by and large are accepting of alternative sexual lifestyles. If Larry Craig were a Democrat, he'd get to keep his job. Think about that.

Of course, Democrats who try to match the Republicans sanctimonious-word-for-sanctimonious-word deserve to be pinned for their transgressions. But, one more time, mainstream media, Republicans are hypocrites--now please, get off your asses and do your fucking jobs! This isn't a matter of policy, it's a question of one of our political parties being a complete and utter wreck. Quite simply, these things do not become public knowledge in 2001-2005. But now, with the party in shambles at every level and actively eating itself, all the media can make out of these and other scandals is "nothing to see here!"