With all due apologies to John Lennon, but not Yoko!

Imagine that Sunni Muslims begin to protect their Shia brethren in Iraq.

Imagine that Iraqis turned their anger at all the foreign Jihadis invading their country.

Imagine that the people of Fallujah stood up to the terrorists and decided to participate in the new Iraqi democracy.

Imagine what the mainstream media would focus on then.

Imagine what happens when birds of a feather flock together.

Imagine what happens when your son is killed in combat, and your wife goes insane from grief on live television.

Imagine that Cindy and her followers really wanted to support the troops.

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A lot of people go into journalism to "make a difference." There's nothing wrong with that; a lot of people want to "make a difference."

But there's a tension between "making a difference" and just reporting the facts without bias, and the press won't own up to that:

Similarly, “making a difference” was never a good enough standard for teaching or doing journalism. It was a lazy idea, the press putting one over on itself. For the liberal journalists and professors who were the believers in make-a-difference journalism were babied by their profession, and their J-school training, which allowed them to believe in agenda-less journalism at the same time.

And in fact, they wanted the innocence (we do just the facts journalism) and the power (we do make a difference journalism) but this could never be. We in the J-schools failed to catch that. The people on a mission never got around to justifying their mission in the language of democratic politics. They talked about it as a neutral public service instead, but speaking truth to power isnÂ’t neutral, and making a difference isnÂ’t just a service to others. We in the J-schools didnÂ’t do well with that, either.

It's a lie and it always has been.

Via Heh.

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Why are slightly animated heads of famous people stuck on undersized bodies so funny? I don't know, but they just are.

That's via Lucianne.com.

John From Wuzzadem presents "Gorelick Noir."

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OK.

You tell me.

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-don't let the screen door hit ya.

I don't know about you people, but this made my day.
Looks like the system isn't completely broken, after all.

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But wait, wasn't he, in fact, President before 9/11? I seem to remember that happening at some point.

Maybe between Buchannan and McKinley. I always get the order there confused.

He says he'd have attacked if only the CIA and FBI had confirmed to him that bin Ladin attacked the Cole.

Too bad that they'd actually already confirmed that:

more...

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Beatification takes three confirmed miracles; here's one.

Can we count sitting in the Texas sun as another miracle? I sure hope so.

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No MSM coverage for those who believe their sons and daughters died for a noble purpose.

On some idiotic left-wing blog, by the way, I was called dangerous (thank you!). In the course of defending Saint Cindy, Our Lady of Perpetual Tanning, he noted that what makes Cindy courageous, among other things, was her bravery in dealing with the heat of Texas, day in, day out.

Indeed, that does make her a hero.

You know who else is a hero, by that definition?

The entire state of Texas.

It's official: Don't mess with Texas. It's a state in which the mere act of moving from home to work to the local 7/11 for a cola-flavored Slurpee qualifies you as heroic.

BTW, NYC has been pretty hot lately. But don't call me a "hero."

(Heroes are supposed to say that sort of thing.)

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I've been trying to find it for a couple of weeks now; hoping to somehow trick him into being on our show. No luck.

If you know how to get in touch with him, please drop me an email at aceofspadeshq at the old gmail.com.

(Please don't post it in the comments.)

Cool: Greg seems to have contacted me. So, maybe in two weeks he'll be on the show. Alas, tomorrow and next week are out.

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As was the case with his help in the Romer appeal, Roberts helped his colleagues in moot-court role-play of what they could expect at the Supreme Court.

Confirm Them says this doesn't necessarily indicate any ideological position on the issue being litigated, so much as it indicates "just not being a total prick to your coworkers."

Ummm, that's my language.

BTW, Justice Thomas sided with Playboy while Breyer was against Playboy. Justice Souter recused himself for an unspecified "conflict of interest."

Uhhh, again, not really, and a cheap shot besides.

Playboy won the case. It concerned whether or not Playboy TV had to go dark when children might be watching, as mere scrambling might allow audio or video signals to occasionally be comprehensible. (Apparently it's called "signal bleed," and, as a kid, I was awfully thankful for signal bleed.) It was ruled that Playboy didn't have to go dark for those hours, as that was too restrictive of First Amendment rights to achieve the government's purpose (i.e., keeping 11 year old boys from jacking off to briefly glimpsed shots of Jeanna Fine's rack).

I think Thomas was right. He's not ideologically doctinaire; he just happens to believe in the actual, written (as opposed to "living" or "just made up on the fly") Constitution. That's why he's always a close tie with Scalia as my favorite justice.

Thanks again to the Blogometer.

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