Political Cortex: Brain Food for the Body Politic

Take, for example, this Reuters article on several towns in Vermont that have passed resolutions calling for Bush's impeachment.  Although any coverage of impeachment efforts is, in a sense, good publicity, the reporter makes every effort to make clear, just as Hannity or O'Reilly would, that these are fringe lunatics.  These "sleepy" Vermont communities, it notes, are gaining a "renegade" image.

Read a bit further, and the Republican talking point leaps off the page at you.  "OUTSIDE POLITICAL MAINSTREAM" reads the section heading midway down the page.  And then, just to make this a bit more clear, the reporter writes, "The idea of impeaching Bush resides firmly outside the political mainstream."  (No, they haven't pasted in a GOP Press Release, though you could be forgiven for thinking so.)  It goes on to say that given that Democrats have been loathe to approach Feingold's censure reolution (for all of TWO DAYS), and that therefore these nutcases (okay, unlike a Hannity that word is implied rather than stated here) are, yes, Outside the Political Mainstream.  They use, of course, exactly zero polls to back this up, but it's oh so Truthy just the same.  Firmly! Outside! Political Mainstream!

Brought to you by the So-Called Liberal Media.

-- Stu