Am I hallucinating?

Am I hallucinating or what? I swear that earlier today I saw an item on RawStory (I think that’s what it is called) in which someone claimed to have had a homosexual encounter with Karl Rove in 1970 at some Young Republican Convention. There were at least three or four subsequent comments to the effect that if what you are saying is true please contact so-and-so. But tonight when I returned to the same site that particular comment no longer appears. Does that mean it was not true and then withdrawn? Does it mean it was true but now it has been passed on to more important people? Or does it mean that I just imagined the whole thing? Quite frankly, I don’t know. I do know that there are now comments that assume there may well have been a relationship between Gannon, the Press Secretary, Rove, and others(?). Of course the major media are doing whatever they can to bury this story. If they succeed again it will be eminently clear just how far the media has fallen.

There are apparently no limits whatsoever on how far the major media will go to cover up and defend the Bush/Cheney administration. Anything that appears to be negative gets covered up or just disappears from view. The 9/11 scandal, the Plame scandal, the Energy meeting scandal, Bush’s AWOL scandal, and now this Gannongate scandal. The performance of our major media: television, radio, newspapers, and magazines is so utterly disgraceful as to be unbelievable. But you better believe it. Unless this situation can be seriously reformed there will be no chance to continue our rapidly disappearing democracy.

It seem to me that we now how no choice but to put our future into the hands of Howard Dean. There is clearly no hope for a third party. Socialism has become such a dirty word in America there is no hope there. Ralph Nader has been exposed as an egomaniacal spoiler. The DLC is nothing but a Republican front. Most democrats are nothing but Republican-lites. Kerry is hopeless. Gore displayed such bad judgment in picking Lieberman as a running mate that he can not be forgiven. Hillary is selling out to the anti-abortionists, as well as claiming the insurgents in Iraq must be failing because they can only murder 50 or 100 people at once these days. Bill Clinton is now in bed with the Bushes. We need a new approach, a rejuvenated democratic party, and some truly active new blood. Who it might be I do not at the moment know. I hate to stake my life on Howard Dean but what is the alternative?