Today's Queasy Chuckle

From PI.

CNN's JACK CAFFERTY: "I don't know about wisdom but you'll get a bit of outrage. We better hope nothing happens to Arlen Specter, the Republican head of the Judiciary Committee, because he might be all that's standing between us and a full blown dictatorship in this country. He's vowed to question these phone company executives about volunteering to provide the government with my telephone records and yours, and tens of millions of other Americans."

Oh my might be. If Arlen "Magic Bullet" Specter is all that stands between "us and a full blown dictatorship" then folks you better pucker up and blow. Congress sucked up to dictatorship a long time ago when they bought the Warren Commission findings, to name one among many.

Prepare for probes, Congress loves to probe you long time.

As for Jack Talking Head, the NY journalist John Swinton said "There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. . . . The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. . . . . We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes. -- (1829-1901), managing editor of the New York Times during the Civil War and later of the New York Sun, in a speech to journalists in New York, c. 1880. And MSM has only gone downhill since.