Sunday, October 30, 2005

The Mark Silva Comedy Tour

We have previously met Mark Silva, national writer from the Chicago Tribune. This shameless hack told us back in September that that the president took "swift and personal responsibility" in dealing with Hurricane Katrina.

This morning he tops that one, with a statement so ridiculous that it doesn't even come close to passing the giggle test. Mark cracks us up here with comedy club-quality material, as he says
"the mere loss of Libby, a close confidant to Cheney and Bush and an architect of administration foreign policy, is a blow for a White House that has prided itself on adherence to high ethical standards."

Ladies and gentlemen, Mark Silva! He'll be here all week at The Laugh Factory, formerly known as the Chicago Tribune, two shows a night. Tip your servers, drive home safely and good night!

1 comment:

Rousing Rabble said...

Silva is clearly a toad. However, to borrow from William Blake, he is a mere candle in sunshine when compared to the Tribune's editorial board which bent over backwards to downplay Fitzmas yesterday:

"Fitzgerald....apparently found insufficient evidence so far that anyone broke a federal law barring the identification of covert operatives....We know that officials in the White House chose to leak the name of Valerie Plame. But we don't know why...It may take a trial to determine whether Libby committed a crime in how he responded to Fitzpatrick's investigation. But there should be no doubt that the unmasking of Valerie Plame, and the events that it led to, are something to regret."

No. Regret is what we feel when we do something we wish we could have done differently. What happened here is more like the knowing betrayal of a trust by people who did so for callous political reasons, in direct opposition to an OATH to preserve, protect and defend the constitution. That's not something to regret - it's something to ACTIVELY AVOID. Moreover, once uncovered, it's up to the press to stop spinning it and start DECRYING IT - and demand ACCOUNTABILITY from those who are ultimately responsible.