Forget about Sicko, the big digital piracy news is that the President's daughters are up to their elbows in it. The Associated Press stumbles upon the scandal:
Bush's twin daughters gave him a CD they had made for him to listen to while exercising.
At times it's fun to play the "What if Clinton was the president?" game. Let's see, if Clinton was president, and Chelsea had given him a CD she'd burned, people on the cable channels would be calling her a cheap little brat. The White House press corps would be demanding to know if every song on the homemade CD had been legally purchased, and members of Congress would be holding hearings on the digital piracy conducted upstairs at the White House. A special prosecutor would be issuing a subpoena to the kid at Circuit City who rang up Chelsea's stack of blank Maxells.
BTW, the story about the Bush twins giving their father a CD they made probably isn't true anyway. Karen Hughes, who has come up with material for the twins in the past, probably asked around to find out what young people are doing these days (well, besides being sent to Bush's fiasco in Iraq). Chances are someone told her they're burning CDs, and so that story got handed out to the press.
Crossposted from
Snaking the Drain