They did not appear to be wearing lipstick, however.

They know that if they can drown us in bullshit, they win. So guess what:

It ISN'T about ratings. It hasn't been about ratings for some time now.

If it WERE about ratings, don't you think they would have done something with the
prostitution scandals (one of which even took place at the WATERGATE Hotel!)
They have had more juicy scandals to report than in the past 100 years,
so what do we get? Paris Hilton. They are sacrificing ratings, big time, to
help the repigs. Their parent corporations want the Repigs, and they want war.
War is more profitable to GE than good ratings could possibly be.

NSA monitoring has given them a rich source of blackmail to keep Congress in line.

Even if a Congressperson is totally honest, they have enough material to fabricate
something that would sound totally damning.

If that doesn't work, they've got this anthrax,
and the tendency of airplanes carrying key Democrats to fall out of the sky:

Berlin, (30 March 1943), The Fuhrer once again assures us that Operation Poland Freedom
(now in its fourth year) will be successful and worth the cost in Reichmarks and lives....

It was obviously one of those books you just can't put down, no matter what...

…our misleaders are batshit crazy!

Bush thinks he's on a mission from God:


and Cheney thinks he IS God:

no casino would buy them, because they would get robbed blind.

If they stole money from customers as blatantly as some voting machinez steal votes,
nobody would play them.

Has all the publicity about insecure Diebold voting machinez hurt Diebold's ATM business?
IT SHOULD HAVE! The banks and other businesses that buy these machines ought to
be very concerned. Whether or not the company's ATMs have the same flaws,
a great deal has been exposed about lax internal controls of software and abysmal
engineering methodology, penetrations of their corporate network by hackers,
and ad-hoc revision and patch control that should be completely unacceptable in any
secure application.