A Whore Is a Whore - It's Just a Question of Price:
The annals of media whoredom are dank with examples of hypocrisy. See the zeal with which our "free" press destroyed the candidacy of Al Gore while giving obvious amateur George Bush a pass. The most recent example of this constant parade of hypocrisy is the to-do over CNN's Rock the Vote Democratic debate. It seems that, in an attempt to demonstrate how hip CNN is, or, in other words, how disgustingly low it can slime itself in order to pander to some goddamn audience that isn't watching Fox "News," CNN created a much-quoted question from the debate: "PC or Mac?" Now, obviously the correct answer to that is: Who the fuck cares, you fucking geek, get a fucking life, and you could see that that's what Carol Moseley Braun was thinking. But, see, the student questioner actually wanted to ask about how the candidates would promote technology in their fantasy administrations. And she went public with CNN's manipulation. CNN fessed-up the fuck up, and you'd think, "Well, that's done. Hell, the President said his last two press conferences were scripted."

But, no, Fox "News" analyst, Fred Barnes, on the strangely queer porn named show The Beltway Boys, was apoplectic about CNN's scripting moment. And, fine, all's fair when the whores are scratching each other's eyes out on the street corner. Except for the fact that Fox wasn't playing fair. Prior to the 40-hour Senate windbagathon over stalled judicial nominees, a Republican Party apparatchik understandably believed Fox "News" was in the party's back pocket. Elizabeth Keys sent a memo to an aide to Senate Majority Leader, Republican cat dissector Bill Frist, essentially asking for the Republicans in the Senate to choreograph their entrance to the debate to coincide with the beginning of the evening "news" program with pockmark-ridden whore Brit Hume. The march didn't happen, but where did Keys get the idea, and, really, c'mon, what's worse? The planting of a single innocuous and vacuous question in a debate or the expectation that a political party will bend to your mediated whims?

In the end, this is a question of which whore would you rather fuck? The whore with the slightest remaining bit of self-respect who won't do double penetration or scat sex? Or the diseased, scabby whore who'll let you do anything to her, for cheap? Which "news" network is which in this analogy? Oh, fuck, does it matter?

Down in Hell, the pitchfork-sodomized soul of Leni Riefenstahl is a-smiling. ("Adolf, baby, could you get the storm troopers to scootch a bit to your right at the rally? It'll make the frame perfect.")