I’m having trouble with embedding a YouTube video in WordPress, but we do have a clip titled “Mitchell Report names”. Yes, we do have more Mitchell Report videos on YouTube.
Former U.S. Senator (and Senate Majority Leader, 1989-1995) George J. Mitchell (D-Maine, 1980-1995) held his press conference on the so-called Mitchell Report today. MSNBC decided to hold off a live showing of the last Democratic debates before the 2008 Iowa Caucus next month but did show it an hour later. CNN scrolled the names of the guilty who are raging with ‘roids. I didn’t watch much of Fox.
This whole baseball steroid scandal wasn’t about whether or not anybody was doing any juicing, since we heard the rumors and heard of a few guys. It was about who was doping and who wasn’t. It was also about what U.S. baseball can do in order to restore integrity to America’s national pastime — independent drug-testing (MLB commissioners and the baseball unions keeping their hands off of things; baseball players still keeping one hand on the cup, the other hand on a certain thing) and harsh penalties (just like the game and the Republicans’ favorite incarceration formula, Three Strikes and You’re Out!).
I would talk about the Democratic presidential debates, but to tell the truth, they didn’t generate as much interest as would a debate sponsored by one of what I like to call the Three Big Ones (Fox, MSNBC, and CNN). However, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson did get a question with regards to his stint as U.S. Secretary of Energy. Hillary Clinton needs to exercise, surprisingly according to her. (She also thought that studying math and science was a way to serve the country back when she was a little girl — this would’ve been during the 1950s. Perhaps if Bill had taken that route as a kid, he could have told the local boards that he already did his time for Uncle Sam.) No Dennis Kucinich or Mike Gravel — the moderator would rather say “Sheesh!” if somebody went over 30-seconds rather than blurt their names if either one of them went over the answer time frame. Barack Obama thinks the parents need to the first in line for their children’s education. Chris Dodd and Joe Biden were the 99%-substance, 1%-style Senators that they have always been for a few decades now.
I can be fair and balanced, you know. Even brief.
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