Tales of the Liberal Media

From "Oh, That Liberal Media Dot Com":

James West And Bill Clinton

Spokane Mayor James West may have been offering public jobs in exchange
for sex.

Federal agents are looking into accusations that Spokane's mayor offered municipal jobs to men he
met in gay online chat rooms in exchange for sex -- the latest allegations against the Republican
official.

Mayor James West, who took a leave of absence on Tuesday, has been under fire since The
Spokesman-Review reported allegations that he abused two boys while he was a sheriff's deputy and Boy
Scout leader in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

City officials also have launched an independent investigation into whether West offered
internships in exchange for sex, and whether his office computer was used improperly

The Seattle PI thinks this is very bad.

Whatever problems the former Republican Senate majority leader faces right now, being a gay man is
likely the least among them.  His sexuality is not the issue.  His hypocrisy is.  
West is in trouble not because he is a gay man, but because he is a man who was apparently willing to
use the power of his public office to solicit sexual favors.

Though trading public jobs for sexual favors is illegal (and West is a Republican, which does not
help him with the PI), the newspaper is not sure whether he should stay in office.  Why not?  
I can't claim to read the minds of the PI's editorial board, but I'll bet that the reason for their
timidity is former president Bill Clinton.  If they say that West should resign if these
accusations are true, then many will wonder why they took the opposite position when Democrat Bill
Clinton got into the same fix*.

The greatest lie ever told was the devil convincing the world he didn't exist. The second biggest lie ever is Corporate America buying up all the media, co-opting the religious right and the Republican Party, then convincing the right that the media Corporate America owned was biased against their values.

The effective use of fear makes a populace easily controlled. And because the United States is a "free country," people don't feel obligated to rebel like people do in totalitarian regimes. As long as people hang on to the lie that the interests of the largest corporations in the world are in their best interest too, then things will continue to be as dark and scary as they are right now.

Don't worry though, Wal-Mart has some great sales going on.

-The Oklahoma Hippy