“The real corruption isn’t what the media are ignoring or downplaying as isolated incidents. It’s what the media are hailing as strokes of bold, inspirational leadership,” wrote columnist Jonah Goldberg. “The White House, as a matter of policy, is rewriting legal contracts, picking winners (mostly labor unions and mortgage defaulters) and singling out losers (evil ‘speculators’), while much of the media continue to ponder whether Obama is already a greater president than FDR. If a Republican administration, staffed with cronies from Goldman Sachs and Citibank, was cutting special deals for its political allies, I suspect we’d be hearing fewer FDR analogies and more nouns ending with the suffix ‘gate.’”
The more religious Americans are, the more likely they are to justify torture, according to a new Pew Research Center 
“Some sort of record in White House puffery was achieved when Tom Vilsack, the secretary of agriculture, joined first lady Michelle Obama to ‘help’ her plant vegetables in the new White House garden,” 
“Just a day after saying he wouldn’t go anywhere in confined places like an aircraft or a subway because of the swine flu, Vice President Biden rode a train from Washington to Delaware. You know what that means? Not even Joe Biden listens to Joe Biden.” — Jay LenoFollow us
