Sick Sad Week: The Best of the Worst of the Week That Ended August 13, 2006

What Do You Get When Fear Eats Too Much Stupidity?

There Is Only One Really Sick Sad Piece of News This Week

And it ain’t got nothing to do with more terrorist plots in London. That, after all, is to be expected. The more Muslim terrorists we catch or kill, the more Muslims will be inspired to become terrorists. The sickest, saddest news this week has to do with news that wasn’t covered. Of course, the British plane bombing plot stole much of the thunder, but even during the most overly hyped of news stories CNN, MSNBC, Fox and the rest of the conservative media manage to find time to devote significant chunks of punditry and talking heads on such urgent national issues as Natalee Holloway and Mel Gibson. You would think that in between jumping to the still-unfounded conclusion that Al-Qaeda was behind the British plane bombing terror attack and taking Israel’s side in original never-ending story—violent stalemate in the Middle East—that there would have been time to air at least one of those feel-good Jeannie Moos type stories on the report that Rep. John Conyers issued this week on the war crimes committed by Pres. Bush and his White House and rubber stamp Congress.

John Conyers and the Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee—the only members of the House Judiciary Committee apparently interested in the most pressing legal issue of the day—put out a 400 page report that painted in excruciating detail the multiple web of lies that Pres. Bush and his cronies spun in order to justify their bloodlust. A uniquely bloodless kind of bloodlust on their part, I might remind you, since none of these rectums-for-brains have ever even come close to putting their own lives on the line for their so-called beliefs.