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Sick Of Sickened by SOB

In a tragic web-surfing accident, I unfortunately ended up at a blog o' dreck called Sick of Bush. I had clicked though from a teaser link at the LoL's blog, proporting to take one to heinous Republican campaign hijinks: " In a truely [sic] nasty ad, the Bush administration through what will surely be one of many ugly surrogates, has released the 2004 campaign's first major negative campaign message. " I eventually found the post, which says

A truly ugly TV ad directed against Howard Dean has a voice-over behind a picture of the Time magazine cover of Osama bin Laden, proclaiming that there are "those" who want to destroy America, but that Howard Dean has "no military or foreign policy experience. It's time for Democrats to think about Dean's inexperience."

Funny how the truth is an "ugly" "negative" campaign ad! Of course, none of the Democratic candidates or their supporters have said a single unflattering, untruthful thing about the President, now have they? All their campaign rhetoric and advertisements (see Crap Weasel) have been positive iterations of their positions on important issues...
But I digress..
What truly appalled me was this SOB's contention that the REAL reason that there was no "real" investigation of the assassination attempt against President Reagan by John Hinkley jr was because--wait for it--Hinkley was a "family friend" of the Bushes, "(which was NOT widely publicized even though widely known by newsmen)" SOB says.

Good gracious! What is SOB implying here???? That the Bush family was complicit in the assassination attempt? I must be making inferences he never intended, by taking his words out of context!!! So let's look at the whole post, shall we? [bold emphases mine]

Bush vs Presidential Safety
Today Bush family friend John Hinckley was granted the right to unsupervised visits with family outside St. Elizabeth's hospital where he has been confined ever since attempting to assassinate President Reagan more than two decades ago. The real story here is that no one in the mainstream press has ever tried to tell the "real story" here.

Amazing, isn't it? We see so little of what is right in front of our faces because it just doesn't fit the story the mainstream wants to hear. Consider this - there was never a real investigation of the attempted assassination of Reagan. It was stopped by Bush Senior - because there was no need. After all, it was clear that it was just the work of one lonely, demented individual - who just happened to be a friend of the Bush family (which was NOT widely publicized even though widely known by newsmen).
# posted by SOB @ 8:50 PM

Huh. Somebody help me out--was there ever a "real" investigation of Squeaky Fromme? Was she a family friend of Nelson Rockefeller perhaps? Could SOB provide me with some links, or even references to some documentation, backing up his allegations that John Hinkley was a Bush "family friend"? Or did the men in black helicopters perhaps shred all the evidence and silence the reporters? (I can certainly see how Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward would have sat on this kind of journalistic common knowledge--they were just Republican puppets, after all!) Journalists are so easily intimidated by the government, you know...

I suspect that SOB has been off his meds for just a little too long, because, even if there was any "evidence" of this connection that survived the massive government and major news media (who all love the President so much!) conspiracy to suppress it, it would likely fall into the realm of Hinkley-once-toured-the-White House-while-Vice President George Bush-was-in-a-Cabinet Meeting anecdotes....

But even though I have pity for under-medicated mentally challenged bloggers such as SOB (his condition being NOT widely publicized even though widely known by members of the VRWC), I am very sickened by his innuendos, and hope he soon resumes his regular course of treatment....

Posted by Susie at December 18, 2003 03:15 PM | TrackBack