Bent Corner

Hillary Clinton got some more good news this week. Not only did she win the New Hampshire Democratic primary, Senator John F. Kerry announced that he was throwing his support behind Barack Obama.

I’ve got to admit that I like Barack Obama, but if a turd like John Kerry is going to endorse him, perhaps I need to rethink my position. Maybe there is something I’m not seeing about Barack Obama.

Maybe I need to reconsider my opinion on Hillary Clinton.

What’s really odd about this is that John Kerry picked John Edwards to be his running mate in 2004. He evidently though John Edwards would make a swell vice-president. Why does he think Barack Obama would make a better president then his own former running mate? If so, I think he’s got some explaining to do.

Kerry and Obama are as different as you can get. Kerry is a dull and wooden. Obama is not. The first time most Americans heard Obama speak was at the 2004 Democratic Convention. His speech that night only made Kerry look more dull and more wooden then we already thought he was.

Did you hear that Hillary Clinton got choked up yesterday at a campaign event when she was asked how she puts up with the riggers of the campaign? By the way she answered, you would have thought someone had asked her how to felt to lose the Iowa caucus to a guy with Hussein for a middle name.

I haven’t seen someone cry that much since the time I tossed my hamburger wrapper out the car window and it landed at the feet of some guy with a feather in his hair.

I think he was a hippie.

I’m not against people crying. I myself tend to get choked up when I watch “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition“. That’s the TV show where they take the run down home belonging to a mother dying from cancer and turn it into a mansion. Every time they move that bus, I get choked up.

The thing that strikes me about Hilary crying is that it seemed she was crying because she felt sorry for herself. Even that hippie with a feather in his hair cried because he felt bad for the environment.

It wasn’t because he was feeling sorry for himself.  Like Hillary Clinton.

Ron Paul claims that he’s been excluded from a New Hampshire January 6 Republican debate being organized by Fox News. This is the weekend before the New Hampshire Primary. Ron Paul says he is being excluded because Fox News is scared of him. Why is Doctor Paul constantly questioning everyone’s bravery? First a recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor and now a cable news network.

Ron Paul’s Internet fans aren’t taking this exclusion sitting down. They are organizing a boycott against any company that advertises on Fox News. They have a list. They are getting the word out to all followers of Ron Paul to not to buy products from these companies.

One of these companies is Gold Bond. That means if a Ron Paul fan were to get a rash in an embarrassing place, they would have to turn elsewhere to get some instant relief. Let’s just hope that they go rash-free.

What’s even funnier is that some Ron Paul supporters are also advising fellow Ron Paul supporters to contact the FCC and complain. This is from a post on a Ron Paul message board:

I’m actually surprised that I haven’t seen this tactic posted yet. Along with advertisers, this is the other major weakness of broadcasters/networks.

The other critical items we can influence directly are the FCC broadcast license for each affiliate, AND FCC approval for station purchases/mergers/trades. By specifically targeting FCC approvals, your comments will have a LOT more long-term weight. Endangering the local affiliate’s license with enough negative comments in the right way will change their attitude from “It’s the network, nothing we can do” and largely ignoring you to actually calling the NewsCorp on your behalf saying “OMG, fix this NOW!”

Remember, the FCC threatened to hit EACH broadcast station with a 6-figure fine for the half-second “wardrobe malfunction” at the SuperBowl*.

This is funny for two different reasons. First, Ron Paul represents a political philosophy that believes a big federal government is bad. If he had his way, not only would the FCC cease to exist, so would the IRS, the Department of Education, the CIA, the FBI, and a whole host of other federal agencies. What do Ron Paul supporters do when they think their man has been slighted? They whine about it to a government agency.

It makes you wonder why they are Ron Paul supporters in the first place.

Secondly, the FCC doesn’t have any jurisdiction over Fox News. It’s a cable network, not a broadcast network. Whining to the FCC about something a cable network is a waste of time. Then again, why should that stop a Ron Paul supporter?

And why is Fox News excluding Ron Paul from the debate? Because there is no debate. It was canceled three weeks ago because of it’s close proximity with another similar event. Ron Paul had been invited to attend, but reportedly his staff never got back with the event organizers to confirm that he would attend.

Why would Fox News exclude someone like Ron Paul from the debate? Including Ron Paul ensures more people will watch. Not only his rabid die hard fan base, but people like me that think he’s a loon. I would watch just for the entertainment value. Who knows what he would say.