Stuff I Think You Should Know

"Who will guard these selfsame guardsmen?"*

*- quote referring to the Praetorian Guard- a group of elite soldiers who were paid to protect the Emperor from assassination but were responsible for most of the assassinations. Meaning if one group has all the power, who's keeping them in check?

So I haven't bothered to blahg about Easongate. It's all been said by bloggers who are a lot better at this than me. My take on it can pretty much be summed up like so:

"I'm Eason Jordan. I made a ridiculous claim about America's military. It was a bold-faced lie, and everybody with a brain knows it, but I'm the MSM, and I'm above reproach. That is, until some nefarious bloggers said some mean things about me and actually got people thinking. Man. Sure wish I'd'a learned my lesson from Dan Rather."

Well, I'd like to weigh in on something I saw this morning. On CNN, no less. Some guy named Bill Press (who happens to be the author of a book called "Bush Must Go". No, this guy isn't partisan at all.) said Eason Jordan was targeted by bloggers because he works for CNN.

That's his reason. That's why he thinks bloggers are going after Jordan. Because he works for CNN, and we want to take CNN down. Now, lemme address one point first: Why is it that nobody on the left has any grip on reality and why we righties think the way we do? I took note of this trend a few days ago (here, under Number Two). They always want to blame things on the most ridiculously far-fetched crap. "Why are there insurgents in Iraq? Why, because of Abu Ghraib, of course!" Get a clue.

We (speaking generally for the right side of the 'sphere) aren't interested in taking CNN down. We know the way they're going we don't have to do anything- they'll destroy themselves just fine. Mr. Press, is it absolutely inconceivable to you that bloggers went after Jordan because he told a Filthy Lie that would've been worthy of Glenn Reynolds? And had no intention of retracting it until the blogosphere made him look like a complete moron? Please.

Then he made an interesting assumption. He said if LTG Mattis had said the same thing (about targeting reporters) that the right-wing bloggers would've praised his comments. Well, first of all, he didn't. But if he would've uttered the same insanity we got from Eason Jordan, there wouldn't be anybody on his side. Do you really think that just because somebody is "on our side" that we won't keep them in check? People on the left are calling for the general's head because of a legitimate comment he made. News flash, morons, we're at war. If he said that his Marines deliberately target American reporters- shoot. Him, his staff, and all the Marines in question would be tried swiftly in a court-martial. Why? Because the U.S. military has accountability- something the MSM lacks.

Well, sorry for ya, MSM. The years of your little oligarchy over what the American people hear, see, and think are over, buddy. Who will guardkeep in check these selfsame guardsmenthe MSM? Why, we will. We are now targeting reporters. But if you pay attention, you'll realize that the only "targeting of reporters" going on is when they lie to our faces and won't 'fess up. Why is this so difficult to understand?

Hmm. I guess I could've named this piece "Open letter to Bill Press and the rest of the MSM". S'all for now.

UPDATE: Hooray for blantant spelling errors in super-size, ultrabold font at the header of the post. And I only had to look at it like thirty times before I noticed it. Weird.