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David Corn has always looked creepy to me. I first saw him on C-SPAN's Washington Journal, before it was totally taken over by the seminar callers and the leftist announcers.

He used to be up against someone on the right, and I could never pay attention to what he said because I always thought he looked creepy.

Once in a while he is on Fox as a commentator for the left, and I don't like him any better now that I did 10 years ago. In fact less, because I have been through the entire Clinton era and he is associated in my mind with that.

And his eyes are scary, indeed.

Yes, anything associated with the clinton era is tainted for me, too.

I don't know if this means anything, but I feel like sharing it anyway. I actually saw Clinton in person twice neither time was because I wanted to. One time when I was 15 I accidentally ran into him when he was on a campaign stop in downtown Chicago. Then two years later (1993ish) he came to my highschool to speak. Earlier my senior year Dan Quayle came to speak- maybe that was junior year? It doesn't matter.

When VP Quayle came the school administration set up the stage in this little tiny part of the gym. They didn't require that everyone go (it was late in the day, thursday or friday). There were maybe 200 people there and it was poorly lit. That night on the news all they could talk about was not what Quayle had to say, but that they had shoved all these people into a tiny part of the gym to make the crowd look larger!

Fast forward to May of 1993. Clinton comes to announce some new education bill at our high school. Well, you would have thought this was the second coming! Kids were being bus'd in from other schools all around the Chicago metro area. The band played. The entire gym was lit up bright as the sun. There was a HUGE stage set up. All the media was there just fawning over bubba.

Now, I realize that the president coming to your school is a big deal no matter who it is, BUT it was in such a sharp contrast to the earlier treatment of the VP that it really struck me even then. I guess that was my first taste of media bias.