When "datadumps" go bad!!!

[underpants]

So the last real full Friday before the Christmas and Holiday season brought us a story no one was really all that surprised by. Cheney has been spying on his fellow Americans (we can stop with the "W says..." and "W did..." now can't we?) and it was right there on the front page of the warmongering New York Times for everyone to see.

It was THE lead of every newscast except the RW machinery. The RW didn't have a spin ready for it even though they had a year to get ready. Some ignored it some tried a lame "national security" element. I see that their copy reader tried the second approach in his radio address today.

"Spying on Americans" "Big Brother" were the graphics I saw throughout the day.

W had to do this today for the MSM to replay ad nauseum throughout the weekend and for talk radio to get out to his followers. I would guess that the emails are flying and an op-ed artificial turf letter is being blastfaxed everywhere.

Tough luck pal. The story got out and all anyone is going to remember is "spying on Americans" at least that is what most will remember. No one listens to the Saturday radio address and the speech tomorrow night might have an audience but at this point most people are in heavy "holiday" mode. They will be cooling out from a weekend of shopping or they have already turned off the white noise coming from DC. Sorry to say it but that is the way it is right now.

This was a "datadump" that hit Friday MORNING and is going to be carried on until after the new year. All the retractions and all the long winded parsings of facts will do no good. The story has been told (this really was no surprise to anyone who half pays attention) it's in the books and no one likes it.