You voted for this? (part 4 in a series)

[yesthattom]

You voted for this? YOU VOTED FOR THIS? FOR THESE PEOPLE?

Don't give me that bullshit "That's the party, not the candidate!" There's no difference! Your vote validates a group of people that do this kind of bullshit, and it ruins the country, devalues life, and hurts us all.

I hate when people say, "people that voted for Bush are stupid" because they aren't stupid. Stupid people don't vote. I hate it that I got comments to my blog with statements like, "both parties are the same" and "I wanted smaller government" or "I want lower taxes." Both parties aren't the same, Bush makes the government more invasive into your lives, and cuts taxes for people so rich you'll never meet them.

You did this. YOU. Look in a fucking mirror and blame the person you see. Don't cry, bitch, ya got what you asked for.

When President Bush bypassed dozens of eager reporters from nationally and internationally recognized news outlets and selected Jeff Gannon to pose a question at his Jan. 26 news conference, Bush's recognition bestowed instant credibility on the apparently novice reporter, as well as the little-known conservative organization he worked for at the time, called Talon News. That attention only intensified when Gannon used his nationally televised press conference time to ask Bush a loaded, partisan question -- featuring a manufactured quote that mocked Democrats for being "divorced from reality."

Gannon's star turn quickly piqued the interest of many online commentators, who wondered how an obvious Republican operative had been granted access to daily White House press briefings normally reserved for accredited journalists. Two weeks later, a swarming investigation inside the blogosphere into Gannon and Talon News had produced all sorts of damning revelations about how Talon is connected at the hip to a right-wing activist organization called GOPUSA, how its "news" staff consists largely of volunteer Republican activists with no journalism experience, how Gannon often simply rewrote GOP press releases when filing his Talon dispatches. It also uncovered embarrassing information about Gannon's past as well as his fake identity. When Gannon himself this week confirmed to the Washington Post that his name was a pseudonym, it only added to the sense of a bizarre hoax waiting to be exposed.

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/02/10/gannon_affair/index_np.html