[Rummyfan]

Ping!

[BenLurkin]

"John Edwards is right: There are two Americas – one America where folks eat at Wendy's, and another America where the elite pass an amusing half hour slumming among the folks at Wendy's and then chow down on the Newburgh Yacht Club's specials of the day."


And higher taxes (for the ordinary Americans) are on the way!

[Defiant]

I love reading unabridged Steyn! Thanks so much.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Gee, an opportunity to correct Steyn - does not happen often. The truth behind the George H.W. Bush supermarket scanner episode is that he was speaking at some "American Grocer's Association Convention" - and he was shown a new scanner technology - 3-D barcode scanning. Bush was not unfamiliar with supermarket scanners - but he was told that it was new and so he asked the demonstrator "How des this work?" The hostile press reported it as if he had never seen a supermarket scanner, when in fact he was seeing this new variant of scanner technology for the first time. 

As they say - when the myth becomes legend - print the legend.

This tendency for things to get out of control without regard for the facts is a disturbing part of journalism these days. Oddly the reaction is to dismiss or underweight certain information because of the track record of the media in general. Thus - stories like the allegation of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth are not evaluated on the truth or falsity of what they say - but are shot down ab initio as being "immoral" (Bill O'Reilly made this indefensible remark) or "gutter politics" Ugh!

[Graymatter]

Shove it!