Wednesday, January 31, 2007

CNN airbrushes the bird



Not sure which story is goofier--Joe Biden's Obama meltdown only hours after announcing he's a candidate, or the Boston meltdown over the finger waving cartoon light board. I think it's the latter (the Biden thing really isn't shocking to those who follow politics). Note the Drudge photo on the left, CNN.com photo on the right.

I was tempted to make a parallel between CNN's tortured decision to show US troops getting fired upon enemy snipers and this, where it seems they tripped all over themselves to erase a lewd image from their site that reflected poorly on the parent company. But I won't. Instead, in the interest of fairness, you'll find a link to CNN's Biden story that proves the MSM doesn't always spike embarrassing racial tongue-slips from Democrats. The bigger question is whether they'll let him live it down.

UPDATE 1/31/07

Watching the O'Reilly Factor segment about it right now, and Bill is clueless about this little lighted finger sign but he wants to arrest Ted Turner. Might as well round up Jane Fonda while they're at it.

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