The news about Pakistan surrendering - no.. appeasing.. no.. ahh! cutting and running from the War on Terra seems a little slow out of the gate. I Googled Pakistan and Al Qaeda today and got a blog or two and mostly foreign press.. Australian primarily.
But there's the Faux News - wanna see their headline?
Looks like the Bush administration knows no bounds. Here's the Chronology:
August 15th - Boulder DA issues arrest warrant for John Karr for the murder of Jon Bonet Ramsey.
August 16th - Boulder DA begins coordinating with the Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement to begin the process of bringing John Karr back to Boulder.
August 16th - Within two hours, the ICE leaks the information to the media and all hell breaks loose. We have another dead blond white girl story to occupy the MSM until further notice.
August 17th - Judge Taylor rules the NSA Warrantless Wiretapping program illegal and unconstitutional.
I just heard the news. It appears that John Mark Karr is NOT Jon Benet Ramsey's killer.
Maybe he was in it for the fame.
Maybe he was in it for the first class plane tickets with the shrimp and the champagne.
Maybe it's all about a book deal.
I'm thinking that he's James Gluckert/Jeff Gannon.
Basically, when questions get too tough, and the anniversary of the destruction of New Orleans rolled around, they needed a distraction.
Did Rove call in an operator?
I'm just sayin.
In a major embarassment for Mainstream Media Inc (MSM INC), John Mark Karr has been freed and all charges dropped in the JonBent case.
Associated Press BOULDER, Colo. - Prosecutors abruptly dropped their case against John Mark Karr in the slaying of JonBenet Ramsey and released him Monday, saying DNA tests failed to put him at the crime scene despite his repeated insistence he killed the 6-year-old beauty queen.
The story served it's purpose though. The ruling on the illegality of the Domestic Wiretapping conducted by the Bush administration has been effectively buried. But the suprise dropping of all charges has taken the media by surprise. Their corporate backers were planning on this to carry them all the way through the mid-term elections. MSM Inc's Jerry Ratloff has the story:
For the local prosecutors to simply drop these charges makes a mockery of Freedom of the Press. We have a right to carry this story to it's conclusion and we have the right to say what that conclusion is.
They are reporting that KUSA in Denver is saying that John Mark Karr's DNA doesn't match the DNA gathered at the scene where JonBenet Ramsey was killed.
You've probably seen the picture at least 1,000 times already -- pretty little JonBenet Ramsey in a pink sweater smiling at the camera.
But did you know where that picture originated? Did you that you now have to pay to use that photo?
It seems that virtually every picture of JonBenet that is out there is copyrighted and is licensed by Zuma, which is now -- 10 years after they first appeared in the media -- vigorously enforcing that copyright and charging for use of the photo. Most of the pictures were taken for beauty pageant purposes by private photographers who still retain the rights.
Juan Cole has an interesting blog post that contrasts the media's obsession with JonBenet Ramsey with its relative silence about the murder of Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi, the 14-year-old Iraqi girl who was reportedly raped and murdered, along with her family, by U.S. soldiers.
I'm watching MSNBC do the "OJ treatment" on murder suspect, John Mark Karr. Helicopters are criss-crossing the skies, trying to get shots of planes taking off that may contain the suspect. I don't get it. The last I heard, it's looking less and less likely that this guy actually commited the murder and is just some run of the mill child molester/pervert/creep. Even if he turns out to be the murderer, the amount of screen time this guy has gotten has been staggering.
Washington, DC(APE) - President Bush today welcomed Louisiana resident and Katrina hurricane victim Rockey Vacarella to the White House on the one-year anniversary of the catastrophic hurricane Katrina.
"I want to congratulate Rockey and all the folks along the Gulf Coast on their one-year anniversary," said Bush. "This first year has been filled with lots of ups and downs and real challenges, but that's what makes folks strong... that's what makes a marriage strong. I look forward to wishing them many more anniversaries to come."
A year after the hurricane, the Bush administration remains mired in criticism. House and Senate Democratic leaders recently released a combined report entitled "Broken Guitar Strap" which outlines the failed responses of the administration.
Not much to it. Every willing overseas trooper confesses to the murder of Jon Benet Ramsey and gets a free ride to California in Business class with plenty of media coverage of their drinking habits!
There are moments when the repressed existential part of my mind must come to terms with an irony so grotesque, that it is forced to awaken, to contemplate this irony in the context of the universe, eternity, etc.
This creates a conflict in my mind. My mind prefers simply to accept the insensitivity of my society at face value. It doesn't want to look too far beneath the surface of my culture.
But when so much attention is given to the, albeit tragic, death of a lone, albeit adorable, 6 year-old, while thousands of Iraqi children, women and men continue to be brutally murdered, with no outcry from the mainstream media... well, I just gotta say something.
Is it just me, or do the folks in the traditional media (aka "MSM") act as if an entire American city was NOT destroyed one year ago this weekend? Right now, it's JonBenet 24/7, with a dash of "Bush got a bounce in the polls."
Wow -- I have known for a long time that the so-called "mainstream media" will look for any excuse to cover any story that allows them to avoid the real and challenging issues that are truly facing our society, and I was already pretty cynical about the media's choices of stories to headline, but they have managed to push me over the top with this one. The non-stop coverage of the sad, but not newsworthy, fact that JonBenet Ramsey is still dead, and the surrounding soap-opera, continues to lead on TV and in the newspapers.
Are we really this eager for avoidance as a society, that on the day that a Federal Court rules that the sitting President has been, and continues to be, violating criminal laws, the major news coverage is still about JonBenet.
This week's red herring comes to us from Thailand, where a suspect was arrested in connection with the murder of baby beauty pageant queen, Jon Benet Ramsey, nearly ten years ago.
Another convenient distraction from real issues for the weakened administration...
President George W. Bush addressed the media today, and discussed the recent arrest of John Mark Karr in connection to the decade-old murder of Jon Benet Ramsey.
Bush taken into custody at Thai embassy in Washington, DC
Washington, DC (APE) - Federal authorities were summoned to the Thai Embassy late this evening to take custody of US President George W. Bush. Bush allegedly confessed to Embassy officials that he was guilty of the rape and murder of the U.S. Constitution, a mystery that has baffled legal experts for over five years.
White House press secretary Tony Snow immediately called to question the story of the president's guilt. He stated: "I have to believe that they have more than this kooky confession. The president had merely taken an interest in the evolving story of JonBenet Ramsey and had gone to the embassy to see if there were further developments."
If you don't think that ownership of the MSM is totally in the control of Karl Rove, you are not watching the 6 o'clock news. Every single station, local and cable, is leading with this stupid, mindless JonBenet Ramsey story.
Not the Federal judge's decision that George W. Bush is breaking the law and ignoring the Constitution he swore to uphold.
