Bloggy Roundup

Here are some things I read today that made my head spin:

Disappearing Dubya: The absence of Bush at the GOP convention was glaringly obvious, though unremarked upon by the media, perhaps because he is also a symbol of their failure:

But if McCain did pull off the great escape, it was only thanks to the press and the way eager journalists pitched in to erase Bush from the political picture.

And here's why: The press is just as anxious as McCain to have Bush go away. The press is just as anxious as McCain to forget about the failures of the last eight years. Why? Because the press, like McCain, is partly to blame for Bush's White House misadventure.

Untruth in advertising: Factcheck.org has a nice rundown of the lie-ridden ads of the McCain campaign including the "belittling Palin" ad, the "Obama is a wolf hunting Palin" ad and the "Obama wants to molest kindergartner ads." Surprise! All included falsehoods!

Say WHAT? Dana Perino, White House Spokesrobot, says that the fact that we haven't caught Bin Laden is no biggie because he really wasn't the mastermind behind 9/11 anyway.

A Good Idea in Theory... According to one of his spokespersons, John McCain supports equal pay for equal work, he just never votes for it!