Bear Flag Blog

How I do despise corporate media. Check this garbage out: on CNN.com right now the front story is "Wilson raises more than $200,000 after outburst", about how the asshole congressman from South Carolina apparently has appealed to assholes across the nation, who have been sending him money. $200,000! Which I suspect is like $150,000 from a couple large donors and assorted peanuts from the dittoheads, but the story mentions nothing about the provenance of the cash.

Still, that's the headline. Wilson gets cash! People support Wilson!

And buried at the bottom of the article is the following: "The appeal for cash came as Wilson's Democratic opponent in next year's congressional race, Rob Miller, reported raking in $750,000 as a result of the outburst during President Obama's address to a joint session of Congress."

In other words, Wilson's utter lack of self-control led to his Democratic opponent raising almost four times as much. But in corporate media, of course, it's the Republican assholes who get the headlines.