Monday, August 28, 2006

Big Media's Two For One Chance

“Hurricane Ernesto! Hurricane Ernesto!” Big Media breathlessly pants in unbridled anticipation. Not only is this an opportunity to repeat their sterling performance of the Katrina coverage, it is a rare chance to a ‘two for one’. With the projected track of Ernesto to make landfall on the Florida Peninsula, the opportunity has presented itself to bag two political enemies at one time: George W. Bush and brother Jeb Bush, the Florida Governor.

Most of the Ernesto stories have already been written. Only the names of the disgruntled citizens and dates need to be filled in. Stories of displaced minorities abandoned by Federal and State (George and Jeb) governments are penned. Scathing interviews with Democrat congress-critters and operatives blaming a catastrophe of Biblical proportions on George and Jeb are taped and ready to roll. Reporters are already scouring all of Florida for demographically correct future victims of government incompetence. In newsrooms around the world, Big Media sits in circles, burns incense, chants and wills Hurricane Ernesto to strike the state that elected their archenemy, George W. Bush and possible heir, brother Jeb.

How disappointed Big Media will be if Ernesto fizzles into heavy rain. Don’t worry, the New York Times is ready to leak the story of the secret Bush weather control program.