Flip Flop Flap

As some of you are aware, "our man" in Iraq, Prime Minister Ibrahim Al-Jaafari, was seen in Tehran a couple days ago, laying flowers on the grave of the Ayatollah Khomeini. This less than a month after he was televised smooching with GWB in the Rose Garden.

Now, you'd think our American press corps would be all over this important and somewhat ominous turn of events, like white on rice. Like flies on shit. Like Tom on Katie. But if you thought that, you'd be wrong.

I turned on the tube to MSNBC an hour or so ago and what do you suppose the big story was? Some female LaCrosse player on an undefeated college team wore flip flops to the White House, thus causing a scandal and inducing heart attacks and apoplexy among some of the WH staff, etc. Nattily-dressed Morales was going on and on about these stupid flip-flops, what kind they were and all, and even had an interview with the gal.

Hold the presses.

Did any of these dumbasses actually go to journalism school? Would any of them know a real story if it walked up to them and bit 'em in the ass? Who do these talking heads on CNN and MSNBC emulate? James Reston? Seymour Hirsch? God, they're too stupid for words.

So far, not a word from the MSM on the Al-Jaafari in Iran story. However, there is a good piece on it by Robert Scheer, posted at "Working for Change."

I guess I'm getting all my news from the alternative media from now on.