Tonight's "News"

Years ago, a telemarketer offered me a "free prize", which only cost $14.95 shipping. Before declining the offer, I repeated back her statements in hope that she would notice the logical disconnect. The conversation proceeded something like this:

"So this thing is free?"
"Yes sir."
"But it costs $14.95."
"Yes sir."
"I thought you said it was free?"
"It is sir."
"How can it be free if I have to pay $14.95 to get it?"
"It's free but you do have to pay to receive it."
etc... for a few minutes (I was bored that day)

Polite, yes. Sensible, not so much.


Tonight's local news gave me that same sense of disbelief, when these two back-to-back stories were presented without any apparent sense of irony:

• Troopergate report says that Sarah Palin abused power as governor.
• Biden says that Republican ads linking B. Hussein Obama with terrorist William Ayers are unfair.

?!?!?

Also, as part of their fair and balanced reporting, these political headlines were somehow missing:

• Ohio Democratic Secretary of State violated federal election laws.
• Voter fraud favoring B. Hussein Obama runs rampant.
• Democrat Barney Frank's "partner" was Fannie Mae executive.
• Joe Biden lied 14 times during the vice-presidential debate.
• There is strong evidence that Democrats have engineered crisis after crisis in order to regain power.
  

I'm shocked - shocked! - that those headlines were omitted...