Baseball, E-Bay, and Other American Pastimes

This might not make sense unless you check out this which, of course, refers to this Minnesota attraction which some people wish you'd forget but others seem hell-bent on reminding you of.

What kind of a sad-sack curmudgeon could possibly object to having a little fun at the ballpark?

Harris Needs To Open Both Of His Eyes

James T. Harris posts up an extraordinarily inane piece, even by his standards. It also shows he must not read Whallah!, because he makes the same mistake that Kevin Fischer made, regarding the whole Spitzer scandal:

Ok... If you are in power and you get caught cheating on your wife:

1) The humiliated wife must wear light blue and stand by her man.

2) The man must wear a dark suit, red striped tie and keep the speech short.

3) Call it a private affair, apologize to the family and wait for the lefties to excuse your sin and dismiss all illegality by saying, "it's just sex."

4) Wait a few days and pray for a bigger story to bump your scandal from the news cycle.

Remember, morality is private and subjective... Unless you are a conservative.

I don't remember personally, but does anyone remember the colors that the Vitters or the Craigs wore when these conservatives had their downfalls?

Dead horse rides again

Apologies for beating a dead horse, but McBride has just tried to resuscitate this one. She says:

Craig resigns

Good.

Ted Kennedy, you're next.

Hmm, remind me. What exactly did Ted Kennedy plead guilty to? What was he convicted of?

As Blueblogger has already pointed out, just two days ago she seemed to grasp the distinction, when she wrote:

Enough with the "he's innocent until proven guilty" stuff and "if he did it" stuff that I've been hearing on some conservative shows. Regardless of what he says now, Larry Craig PLEADED GUILTY in a court of law and was convicted. That should mean something. He's not innocent until proven guilty. He's guilty...

Bill Clinton was accused of raping a woman. Ted Kennedy was accused of leaving a woman to die. They enjoy respect from the Democratic party and the media. Larry Craig was accused of nudging the foot of an undercover cop, and the Democrats want to put him in a stockade in the public square.

Actually, Craig wasn't just accused. He pleaded guilty -- as McBride seemed to know just a paragraph or two earlier.

This from a college journalism instructor who's married to a longtime prosecutor -- a prosecutor who is thinking about running for the state Supreme Court?

Perhaps said prosecutor should do a little remedial instruction with his spouse on the criminal justice system and how it works.

Jessica McBride: Crack Journalist!

I love what some people consider to be a "journalist" nowadays.

Take Jessica McBride for example. Young Jessica is a teacher of young journalists - a molder of minds if you will. The future of journalism is in her hands, a thought that absolutely frightens me to no end.

I happened to surf on over to Young Miss Jessica's blog, and an entry of hers on the scandal involving Senator Larry Craig (R - Bathroom Stalls) caught my eye. What caught my eye was not the groundbreaking content (there's not much of that to be found in her blog), but rather the fact that Young Miss Jessica directly contradicts herself in the same blog entry. In said entry, YMJ states:

Enough with the "he's innocent until proven guilty" stuff and "if he did it" stuff that I've been hearing on some conservative shows. Regardless of what he says now, Larry Craig PLEADED GUILTY in a court of law and was convicted. That should mean something. He's not innocent until proven guilty. He's guilty.

Then she follows up the whole, "HE'S GUILTY" point with this doozy (I added my own emphasis):

Bill Clinton was accused of raping a woman. Ted Kennedy was accused of leaving a woman to die. They enjoy respect from the Democratic party and the media. Larry Craig was accused of nudging the foot of an undercover cop, and the Democrats want to put him in a stockade in the public square.

Now maybe I dwell in a different reality than YMJ, but in my reality you can't follow up a statement like, "HE'S NOT INNOCENT, HE'S BEEN PROVEN GUILTY!" with, "He was accused of..." without directly contradicting yourself. I can only hope YMJ isn't teaching that trick to her students, because it's bad form to directly contradict yourself when reporting the news.

Do As I Say, Not As I Do

McBride, not satisfied to leave well enough alone, felt the need to post a second piece on Larry Craig (R-Airport Bathroom Stalls). She misleads the reader by making one think she's going to get another one right (a rare occurrence) when she criticized some fellow conservatives that came to defend Craig. But she drops the ball when she tries to portray a criminal conviction to allegations. She has to go back decades to bring up Ted Kennedy's scandal-now that's reaching.

But among her "couple of comments" (note to McBride: A couple means two, not nine), she pulls the classic McBride maneuver of "Do As I Say, Not As I Do" with

The Idaho Statesman needs to realize that Craig's arrest shouldn't mean they print every single unverified rumor they've ever heard in the newspaper

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If McBride held herself to these same standards, she would have nothing to blog about, much less anything to use to distort the minds of the youth she lectures to.