Dr. Evil is another possibility--a better one, since he had access to the people surrounding Dan Rather.

. It would take someone very brilliant, very cynical, very Machiavellian, and it doesn’t take a lot of imagination to come up with the name of Karl Rove as a possibility of having done that.

Or maybe it was Professor Moriarity. This guy must be one of the most stupid people in Congress, and that's saying something.

If people sitting back in their living rooms can't rely upon the information they're getting over the news channel or over the radio, then very important aspects of this Democratic system become eroded.

Right!

I'm quite surprised, frankly, that this has gotten all the attention that it has, but in a way I'm grateful that it has because it's important for us to be concerned about these things.

Hunh?

I think it's very responsible of me to speculate about where this manipulation is coming from. Yes. I think it's important to speculate about it.

Make speculating on it your number one priority, Congressman. That's the primary reason the people of New York's 22nd District elected you.

DIRTY LIMERICK CONTEST:
Finish the below tow lines, and you'll receive my undying gratitude:

There once was a bolgger named ACE,
whose dates always ended in mace, ...

SUBMISSION 1) for being a virgin, he found it was urgent, to lose it by age thirty three.

Submission 2)
There once was a virgin named ACE,
whose dates always ended in mace, ...
for being a virgin, he found it was urgent,
to lose it and (something) the race.

Is anybody else interested in participating in an intervention for 72Virgins? I think they need some help.

Absoloutely!

There once was a blogger named ACE,
whose dates always ended in mace.
"Ow! All right, your loss, then,"
he would say, "because when
I move, like a hammer I slice."

There once was a blogger named Ace
Who CPAC with his presence did grace.
The card he was clutchin'
Read, "I'm Steve McCutcheon,"
Though that really wasn't the case.

(Note: I've no idea how "CPAC" is pronounced; the meter above assumes the stress is on the "PAC". Otherwise, it can be rejiggered as "There once was a blogger named Ace. / With his presence, he CPAC did grace" or something like that.)

Hah! I like that one especially.

You know why?

Because it rhymes.

(GuyT., I am looking straight at you when I say that.)

(I was wondering when we'd graduate from haikus to limericks. Hey, maybe we'll eventually work our way up to sonnets, who knows?)

There once was a blogger named Ace
Who yearned for Ann Coulter's embrace.
"I'll buy you a drink
For a boink and a link!"
-- he kept screaming, till blue in the face.

Voting shall be at 5:00 PM CT. So far Stumbo's submission No. 5 above is leading.

My rhyme wasn't just any ordinary garden-variety rhyme; it was an oblique rhyme. But since "oblique" sounds French, henceforth I will call such rhymes "freedom rhymes" instead.

In conclusion:

You may not like my rhyme,
But at least it is all mine.

FREEDOM!!!

There once was a blogger named ACE,
whose dates always ended in mace.
he'd bribe with godiva
but ultimately drive her
to another woman's embrace.

This is all so amazingly daft.

"I'm so stoopid that it must be obvious to everyone I could be snookered by forgeries from a Cracker jack box" is not a defense. It just hilights certain educational challenges one must face. Sigh.

Congratulations to Stumbo!
The winning submission is yours No. 5.

There once was a blogger named Ace
Who yearned for Ann Coulter's embrace.
"I'll buy you a drink
For a boink and a link!"
-- he kept screaming, till blue in the face.

As promised, you have won the undying gratitude of THE 72VIRGINS. Is there anything we do for you?