The next day the entire lamestream media was filled with stories of how the White House had helped Speaker Hastert strong-arm Republicans to get the bill through. I had been working all night that night. I had C-SPAN running in the background. I watched the votes as they occurred.
It turned out that the entire MSM was lying through its various teeth. Two Republican votes changed; one yes became a no, one no became a yes. But the total Republican vote on the bill DID NOT CHANGE. All of the changes which allowed the bill to pass, occurred on the DEMOCRAT SIDE. Two of them changed from no to yes, and one who had abstained, voted yes.
Rush found it delicious that the whole MSM had the story wrong, and all they had to do was replay C-SPAN and see who voted how, and when, and the story would fall in their laps. Rush read more than half of my column verbatim on the air. And I found that delicious.
John / Billybob
Excellent.
What I think you do best is take an arcane issue, mix in just enough cornpone to make it palatable, add a goodly amount of your lawyerly logic... and voila! It 's not only comprehensible, but entertaining, as well.
Coincidentally, "Reverse Gorelick" (above) was actually inspired by a comment by Rush Limbaugh. He in fact did have it backwards.... (He attributed the Gorelick Wall to the '60s liberal mindset.)