Laws are not for Emperors

And, hard on the heels of ONE propanganda scandal comes another.

The Government Accountability Office, an investigative arm of Congress, said on Thursday that the Bush administration violated federal law by producing and distributing television news segments about the effects of drug use among young people.

Now, the press is not going to make a big deal about this, because - while it DID violate the law - the phony news was about the effects of illegal drugs on kids. That's a no-lose issue, and anyone who tries to make a big deal out of Bush's lawbreaking this time will be painted by the right-wing media as favoring illegal drug use.

But what's interesting is that it's the second time that the Bush administration has been caught breaking this very same law:

In May the office found that the Bush administration had violated the same law by producing television news segments that portrayed the new Medicare law as a boon to the elderly.

Now, if we had a REAL press, they would make a big deal out of Bush's seeming addiction to lawbreaking. But we don't. Maybe they ALL got paid off like Williams, who knows?

But you know what would be a good idea? When some pundit behaves like a Bush whore, instead of just writing and telling them that you don't like it, ask them if Bush is greasing their pockets. Demand that they ALL come clean. This is a good idea on two fronts:

1) You KNOW he's greasing some of them. There is no WAY that Williams is the only one.

2) The SCLM is currently soft-pedaling the Williams story. They actually don't realize that the Williams story calls the integrity of every single one of them into question. So let's make them realize that. Because it does.