By Mike DeVine, Legal Editor for The Minority Report and The HinzSight Report

MSM Ball Songs
(Sung to the tune of Paul McCartney’s ‘Silly Love Songs’)

You’d think that people would’ve had enough of Jesse’s love songs
But I look around him and I see MSM sycophants

Some people wanna fill the world with whiny Americans
And what’s wrong with Gramm?

And I’d like to know, there goes McCain again

I love gas, I love my testes
Jesse loves Jesse, Hillary wants testes

(2008 Rooster Crowing Records)

Gamecock lawyer has been to a few formal BALLS like the one Cosmo Kramer (naked back twirl and all – You shoulda’ seen my babe, Carol) attended with George Costanza on Seinfeld, but I so tire of the informal ones the MSM calls NEWS and foists upon the unsuspecting everyday.

I refer of course, to the gotcha silly word games Gramm and Jackson that have dominated the last 48 hours of Balls, that sound like Silly Love Songs in O’Reilly and Couric ears:

Rev. Jackson’s desired castration of Barack the Messiah, Lord Obama, due to said Messiah’s of late public eschewing of blame whitey rhetoric as per darker hued older children having babies.

Jesse would like to deliver Obama’s balls to Hillary’s Testicle Lock Box and thus reclaim his position as Number One Black Man in the Democratic Party and America. Unfortunately, Barack’s testes were long ago removed by the Obama who wears the pants in the South Side of Chicago family from just south of Barack’s belt to just north of Michelle’s reach, a safe place where Hillary can’t go since college. Too bad for Ms. Rodham that she never thought of Michelle’s plan.

But seriously, given Jackson’s love chile (see Jimi Hendrix for spelling), hymietown, and shakedowns, and given Rev. Sharpton’s riot incitings, tax non-payings and tawana brawlings, isn’t the real story the sorry state of journalism? Why do they even waste a mike on these clowns?

I can think of one reason this year, i.e. that they are advisers to the presumptive Democratic nominee for President. The man that wants the nukes who is counting on the MSM to continue to cover for the leftist and black pathologies that are every bit as ridiculous and dangerous as were those of the segregated white south and the KKK.

Now to the Phil Gramm “whiny Americans about a mental recession” flap.

The leftist MSM lives for taking conservatives’ words out of context and fitting it into their template of Republicans’ as racist, bigot, heartless warmongers.

Phil Gramm is a conservative icon of the Reagan Revolution. He was a boll weevil democrat that resigned his seat and re-won it as Republican. No Jeffords he. He was an architect of supply-side economics that produced the recovery in the 1980’s that we still technically live in. He is an economics professor by trade and so knows that the technical definition of a recession is two consecutive quarters of negative growth, which has not occurred since 2001.

Gramm is also a very avuncular, upbeat fellow that likes to turn a phrase to translate arcane econ and was being interviewed by friends at The Washington Times, when he said:

In an interview with the Washington Times, Phil Gramm, a former Texas senator who is now vice chairman of UBS, the giant Swiss bank, said he expects Mr. McCain to inherit a sluggish economy if he wins the presidency, weighed down above all by the conviction of many Americans that economic conditions are the worst in two or three decades and that America is in decline.
“You’ve heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession,” he said, noting that growth has held up at about 1 percent despite all the publicity over losing jobs to India, China, illegal immigration, housing and credit problems and record oil prices. “We may have a recession; we haven’t had one yet.”
“We have sort of become a nation of whiners,” he said. “You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline” despite a major export boom that is the primary reason that growth continues in the economy, he said.
“We’ve never been more dominant; we’ve never had more natural advantages than we have today,” he said. “We have benefited greatly” from the globalization of the economy in the last 30 years.
Mr. Gramm said the constant drubbing of the media on the economy’s problems is one reason people have lost confidence.

Gramm made two errors (maybe three). His most egregious mistake was to conflate We the People with the American press, when he referred to a “nation of whiners.” Lots of people do this, and it is one of my pet peeves (and Rush Limbaugh’s). That the press decides to run a story doesn’t make it so and that they run a poll, doesn’t make it so.

Reality is. The press produces a product they call news. We too often confuse the two, and Phil’s mistake was easily used by the MSM to make it seem like he is callous towards low and middle income families and small and large businesses that are crying out for relief from high gasoline and food prices.

Gramm was speaking of the whiny press that wants people to think that America is in a decline that only an Obamessiah can save us from.

Secondly, he forgot the logic behind Reagan’s great lines: “A recession is when your neighbor loses his job and a depression is when you lose yours” and, “Are you better off than you were four years ago”?

I give him a pass on the latter, with his “mental recession” given that he was having an economics discussion and it was a good line – as applied to the press.

So, I give McCain a pass for going ballistic. He can’t risk alienating the inattentive to politics and economics sufferers at the pumps and the produce aisles.

Who knows, maybe this helps McCain, and its even possible it helps Barack the new castrati, Lord Obama to get to the left of the good Reverend. In the end however, I suspect that the Din of the 20-year pew-parked butt and his Senator No to anything that would lower gas prices drowns all the Gramm and Obama as tough on black fathers rhetoric.

McCain in a landslide.

And to paraphrase the best Beatle, “What’s wrong with that?”

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