What gun for polar bear?

Well I was googling, and...

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Der vurst day

The Des Moines Register national staff takes note of an historic event today. His Obamaness's health  gauleiters  make it official.

"Vee haf ways of making you eat  pschitt, or at least stuff that tastes like it."


The new federal diet guidelines are out today, The headline ogres are cheese, pizza, and sausage.  Take that, Jimmy Dean, enemy of the state.

Already the giant food processors are stumbling over themselves to link arms with the broccoli brown shirts.

If it wasn't for my own good I would be irritated.

Teddy, Miss Kopechne, and the "National Lampoon"

Since we were on the subject,  I thought it would be fun to look at the Volkswagen ad again. Don't miss the line near the bottom, which competes for the title of history's greatest retraction.

President Ronald Wilson Dontmatter

"Kennedy docs show death threats as late as 1985"

That is the AP headline this morning over a story on newly released documents dealing with the life of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of the House of Hyannisport.

Now please read carefully from the second AP paragraph,   to which the headline refers:

"The documents showed that on May 23, 1985, the U.S. Capitol Police passed onto the FBI a copy of a letter sent to the Secret Service, ostensibly by a Warren, Mich., resident. The sender, whose name was redacted, declared: 'Brass tacks, I'm gonna kill Kennedy and (President Ronald) Reagan, and I really mean it'."

The crazy Michigan woman didn't kill anyone, but this morning an AP writer and at least one AP editor murdered a fair segment of the media's remaining credibility. 


Call it a stupid mistake by two so-called professionals who know full well that many, many readers never go further than the headline and that fewer still go beyond the first paragraph. The quoted paragraph follows  a lede also  mentioning  the threat to Teddy but not the president.

Or perhaps they were aware of the readership studies but somehow secured employment with the world's largest (and once great) wire service with news judgment which holds that a threat to assassinate a senator is highly significant while an identical threat against a sitting president is worth just a throwaway line. 


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There's also some fresh documentation that we are quite correct in despising the youngest Kennedy for his cowardice and calculated lies and actions  while Mary Jo sucked in that last horrid lungful of  sea water.  But it is buried deep in the usually  unread sentences which, like as not, would be on the dead-tree jump page if not cut altogether.


For instance, the FBI helped Ted  buy time to get his story arranged for the fawning reporters who aspired,  above all,  to be favored Kennedy courtiers.