we know we are not going crazy. we ourselves read the story on woi-tv's website yesterday, about young repubbblicans invading a student rally for dean in iowa. we read that one of the repubbbs physically pushed one of our icons of rock n' roll, joan jett. we know this to be so, and we blogged about it yesterday, on
our site and on
the american street.
however, when you click the link to woi-tv, you now get a page that says "our apologies. you have reached a page that is currently unavailable. we apologize for any inconvenience. please use your browser's back button to return to the previous page."
and, as our buddy from across the aisle chuck simmons points out, when you google joan jett in iowa, you don't get anything about the fracas.
luckily for us, an alert reader at buzzflash reproduced the entire story here (actually, we only left out a couple of paragraphs ourselves, in deference to the fair use law). we like buzzflash's comment to the repubbbs: if you don't want to be called nazi's, stop acting like storm troopers.
why did woi-tv scrub its story? we have alerted the fine blog memory hole, hoping they can record this for posterity. in the mean time, why not email woi-tv news director scott frederick, and ask him? or better yet, call him at (515) 457-9645, ext. 139 or fax him at (515) 457-1034, and ask him directly?