Posted on 09/24/2010 10:25:02 AM PDT by keep your powder dry
September 24, 2010
DISTRACTION: So, yesterday reader John Mark Williams suggested that the Colbert testimony was intended to distract from coverage of Christopher Coates’ testimony about the Justice Department’s racism scandals. If so, it’s worked. Front page of Daily Caller: Colbert. Drudge led with Colbert until the news of the Klein & Zucker firings came out. Limbaugh led off today talking about Colbert. NRO has covered Colbert at The Corner, but not Coates. Washington Examiner headline: Colbert. Looking around other sites, I see more about Colbert than Coates. Hot Air and Power Line did better.
But let me quote the Power Line treatment: “Coates’s testimony is a bombshell. It exposes a couple of Obama administration scandals at once. One involves the Obama administration’s attempt to cover up the rationale for burying the case against the NBPP. The other involves the Obama administration’s support for the racially based administration of justice. Coates’s testimony is suggestive of other scandals as well. You probably won’t be hearing much about it on the broadcast news tonight or in the papers tomorrow, but we all should do everything we can to get the word out.”
I expect the usual JournoList types to provide cover (it’s not like this is a scandal involving a Republican Justice Department, after all, which would be news), but I’m kind of surprised to see so many people who should know better taking the bait on a non-story about a fictional character.
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Idiots who watch TV keep evil people like Colbert employed.
This is going to backfire. Will just instill the impression that they are playing silly games as Rome is burning.
WLS Radio that Rush is on, started their News with the LINDSAY LOHAN story!!!!! OMG!!
Rush needs to talk about this. I watched a lot of that hearing.
The O admin should be drummed out.
First, get used to it, news which they cannot immediately spin any way but negative to the administration, IS NOT REPORTED by the MSM. I assume Rush, Drudge will pick up on it.
Second, is it only me that finds Colbert painfully unfunny?
Members of Congress who think this is what the public wants will hopefully soon find themselves unemployed.
I don’t have TV. Never heard of Colbert.
I woke up thinking it is Saturday. Saw the banner on Fox for the committee hearing where he spoke. Kept wondering why the hype over his testimony. He’s an idiot.
Suddenly, it came to me, Coates is not spelled COLBERT.
Boy, did I get suckered.
What in the h*ll?
Is she seriously texting?!
Nice.
Rush etc should point out the suffering of Americans is a joke to these wealthy left wingers.
A mock rally? Nation is in a do or die crisis and they make silly little jokes.
I’m sick of Bill O sucking up to John
Leibowitz (any reason John uses a fake name? He ashamed if his heritage??)
That show is leftist propaganda brainwashing 20somethings into voting Rat. Sole reason it’s there.
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