President George W. Bush was seen on cable news this morning signing the CAFTA trade agreement, in what CNN's White House correspondent called "a gloatfest," since the bill only passed in the U.S. House of Representatives by two votes. Are you feeling the screws turning yet?

Meanwhile, the Birmnigham Snooze did manage to eke out a story of sorts today on the sneaky visit of U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Although it just demonstrates the pathetic and rear-end kissing nature of mainstream journalism these days.

Even in my early days in journalism at the University of Alabama's Crimson White student newspaper, I would have been laughed out of the newsroom for reporting that a government official such as Gonzales was "pleased with Martin and the direction the U.S. attorney's office is taking."

So he is pleased that the U.S. attorneys office in Birmingham has lost every high profile case to come before it? And to change the subject, they indict former Jefferson County commissioner Chris McNair, who lost his daughter in the 16th Street Church bombing, for some renovation work on the photography studio dedicated to the memorial of his daughter?

Aren't you so pleased that the Birmingham News is pleased with the pleasing idiots who are running the country? I guess it beats hiding out in the bushes and catching a Democrat in an affair with a reporter, eh? How's that circulation doing these days? Do you think people are pleased with your pleasing BS?

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Thanks to one of our highly observant readers and regular callers to the radio show, this item just in from the Birmingham Snooze.

It is quite obvious that politicians have it way too easy these days and no longer suffer the wrath of citizens and voters. They are totally in the pocket of large corporations.

Nowhere is this more true that Alabama, where you get comments like this in the local newspaper without so much as a question or a challenge.

U.S. Reps. Mike Rogers, R-Saks, told the Birmingham News Washington bureau THIS to justify his upcoming vote on the Central American Free Trade Agreement, which is a great deal for some corporations and an abominable deal for most workers.

"There is now no employer that I know of in my district that is opposed to CAFTA," Rogers said.

No concern for the employees Mr. Rogers? What about the citizens in your district? The voters?

Of course not. They are mostly brainwashed by Fox News and the bad or absent local media coverage - or they have lost all hope and no longer pay attention.

As long as Mr. Rogers toes the Republican line and goes to church now and then he will be reelected, unless some local progressives become fired up enough and so mad as hell that they get off the couch and say, "We're not going to take it anymore."

Personally, I think the people of Kyrgyzstan are onto something. But hey, I could be wrong.

And lest anyone doubt that Fox News is America's Al Jazeera, check out Bill O'Reilly's Talking Points column today. Fox News is not just the conservative, Republican news outlet. It is the patriotic American network, which could also be described as the jingoistic, nationalistic news network.

Remind us again. What is the definition of fascism?

"The three characteristics of fascism are the integration of the government with monopoly capital, an aggressive and chauvinist foreign policy and the restriction of civil liberties."

For one free bright blule dot bumper sticker, who said it?

Here's the Wikipedia Encyclopedia definition.

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