I'm not making this up. Tom DeLay and his henchmen have launched an assault on Texas prosecutor Ronnie Earle for...giving a speach against political corruption.
The Houston Chronicle was first to take the bait. Now FOX is on the trail, calling the principles this afternoon, looking for smoking gun videotape of the event.
The wingers are hot on the trail. Earle's crime: he spoke to a Democratic group.
Earle's
speech spoke of the absolute need for America to clean up the government, of how corruption at the top contributed to crime in the street.
So crime fighters are no longer supposed to talk about fighting crime?
But it's okay for the crooks to talk about crookdom. On the same night that Earle spoke to the Texas Values in Action Committee in Dallas, wingers gathered to honor DeLay.
Here in Texas, cattle get so used to the feed trucks that they start heading for supper at the sound of the trucks at the gates. And that's what the press has become. Just the sound of DeLay with a little hay has the steers ambling forward to chew their cud.