So, the word, "Is" means what?

So it seems that the legends were indeed correct and the Oriental sense of logic is very different from that of Occidentals.

Imagine two cute ladies of Korean extraction who decide for reasons not obvious to this Western mind to smuggle themselves into the north of that country. They risked and were sentenced to 12 years of hard labor in order to meet Bill Clinton on a private jet. Next time girls, get a boob job and get hired by Hooters. Much safer and I wouldn’t have to watch his dissipated face on TV.

Again, the reason I came up with that possible but, I admit, unlikely scenario is to illustrate another point about most of the media outlets in this country.

I’m willing to bet that newsrooms around the country were scouring Obama’s record in order to trumpet his second 100 days. Remember the hoopla around that first milestone? Little Chrissy Matthews was breathless in anticipation as he waited to help blow out the candles on the cake.

Try as they might though, they could not come up with any Herculean accomplishments this time around. Not one! And so they had no choice but to ignore it all which they did.

The Augean Stables of Washington DC are even more filled with ….. Well you know what stables are filled with and it’s just that there is more of it than existed 3 month’s ago. It's good for your rhubarb and not much else.

Obama and his teleprompter tried to wrest some measure of comfort by trumpeting that the unemployment rate was 9.4% as compared to 9.4% the month before.

And no, that’s not a typo!

Then contrast the adulation which that non-fact earned from the media with the same coverage accorded to that same statistic during George W’s administration.

In those days of media-threatened doom and gloom, the drive-bys insisted on adding to the official numbers those who were no longer counted. These included those who had given up looking for a job, those who were working part-time jobs and those who were starting their own business.

Even when the national rate was way below 5%, little Chrissy had to add his caveat. OK, little Chrissy, apply the same rules today and the real number is 16.3%. And, included in that number is another 30,000 positions lost at Caterpillar. Remember them? They were the company that was going to start rehiring when Obama’s stimulus package was enacted. It was all about “shovel-ready” jobs and I assume he meant to include the mechanical equivalents.

Ah well, another Obama promise tossed aside.

No poll is perfect especially as far as elections are concerned. More suspect than most are those who call up any a Bubba, anywhere, and then count his or her slurred pronouncements. To mean anything, it must surely recognize only likely voters and, as far as I know, only one outfit asks that question. Rasmussen does precisely that and found the GOP is now ahead by 6 points in the “Generic Congressional Poll”. In other words, forget personalities, whom do you trust?

CNN knows this and so does MSNBC. Little Chrissy doesn’t because he’s in his corner with his Obama blankie and his fingers in his ears.

But he did emerge long enough to point at a clause in his contract which empowers him to insist on some content. Devoid of other ideas, he grasped at the Clinton/Korean non-event.

Well done little Chrissy ………… And now, go back in your corner. With a little luck and if you’re a very good boy, your leg may tingle again real soon..