Amazing, isn't it?  

Headlines yesterday and today included media shock! at how long it took a convicted Ohio killer to die by lethal injection. 

Why doesn't the media focus on how long it takes murder victims to die?  Go all out.  Tell the world the gory details.  Be [more] repulsive.  Tell everyone how murderers torture, maim and abuse their victims. 

If MSM is so anti-death, why not rile up the masses against all murderers?  Never mind that describing the last moments (or days or hours before a victim dies) would cause extreme distress for the victim's family.  That's a cop-out.  You think families don't read about (or in some cases witness) the execution of murderers?  So why IS it that MSM doesn't hesitate to tell us how "cruel and unusual" it is to execute a convicted low-life murderer?

Meanwhile, a few prominent bloggers are doing just that -- providing the gory details of the January 2007 murders of a two (coincidentally white) University of Tennessee students who were  kidnapped, gang-raped and mutilated by a (coincidentally black) gang of thugs in Knoxville.  For some unknown reason, Rocky Top media has not seen fit to cover this potential hate-crime story.

Was the media covering up or avoiding the topic?  Fear of reverse racial-profiling?  Afraid of a Duke-backlash fiasco?   Concerned about getting a little print smudge on those rose-tinted glasses?  Somebody's nephew or niece involved?  Avoiding negative publicity for the University?

And where have the Reverends Jesse and Sharpton been since January?  Certainly not leading marches through Knoxville, making talk show junkets or rallying bleeding-heart activists in support of the murdered students. 

Now -- since the media hasn't covered the crime, Tennessee white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups have jumped on the bandwagon. 

Dang it.  If media had covered the murders responsibly, the other hate-groupies might have stayed in their caves in the hills. 

And speaking of Rocky Top -- Fred! fever is festering ....  Fortunately -- most who support different conservative candidates exercise discretion and respect when discussing why they support the respective candidates.  Most, that is.

I encountered a Fred! fanatic last night on a forum.  I offered to provide two pro-Romney "reasons" for every one reason he could provide for Fred! in a supposedly friendly debate .... He never made it to one.   He sulked away mad after calling me a "plant"  from Kos; later an enabler referred to me as a Romney "plant."  ROFL 

Never been to the Kos site.  If I want to read profanity or watch lunatics rave, I'll rent a good movie.  I visit Romney's site daily, but you won't see my blog on his support list.  And thus far, I've had to buy my own t-shirt and bumper stickers.  Real "plants" get freebies.  And money. 

Me?  I got to interact with a loose-cannon from Virginia who sez he's from TN who called me an idiot for missing the first name of Fred's mentor.  Then a second wanna-be jumped in.   #2 had absolutely no concept of what a political operative, i.e.,  "plant" was .... It went relatively down-hill from there.    I seldom comment on forums/boards for obvious reasons ....  Fortunately, the Republican umbrella is large.  It has to be to accommodate the few (and thank the good Lord they are few --) who hide behind the masks of ignorance, bias and prejudice .... They personify why libs call some conservatives "wingnuts." 

Moving on -- I'll post my last exchange with one of the nut-jobs as a comment .   I invited them to bring their "stuff" over here  ....  They'll never show.  Moonbats never come out in the daylight!  ROFL

Dad was right, by the way:  It's hard to BS a BS'er. 

Speaking of Fred Thompson -- he's a nice guy, actually.  But still a good ole' boy BS'er.  I don't recall if he's ever campaigned outside his state.  In Tennessee, he sits atop Rocky, if you know what I mean. 

[And if anyone reading this wants to pelt Mitt Romney with a similar charge, think about how he "campaigned" nationally AND internationally to recoup and restore credibility to the Salt Lake Olympics .... leading the organizational committee from a scandal-ridden, bankrupt global albatross to one of the most successful and ethical events ever.] 

But back to Fred!

Mark my words:  when Fred's brand of layed-back backroom deals, high-dollar lobbying, home-spun stump-speak and his good-ole-days-good-ole-boys' network encounters the real world of media mongols, the cyber-eye of the Internet, Shrillary and Bill Clinton and their no-homonyms-barred sludge-fest in the gotcha! world of current politics -- it'll take more than a red pickup to kindle a fire in ole Fred's belly.   While on an open-stage without make-up or script.

I like the man.  Hate to see him burn like green wood in a wild fire, though.  Know what I mean?