Johnny’s (ALLEGEDLY) Been a Bad Boy.

The National Enquirer may not publish plagiarism like the New York Times, but it’s never been considered the bastion of reliable journalism, either.

Nevertheless, according to the Enquirer, this past Monday night (July 21) former Senator John Edwards allegedly went to the Beverly Hilton to meet with his alleged mistress and alleged love child following an alleged press event with the alleged mayor of Los Angeles about addressing the alleged homeless problem…allegedly.

It’s a good thing nothing like that would EVER happen to a South Carolina politician. Man, that would be embarrassing, huh?

– Bo Burdette

UPDATE 7/25/08 : According to Fox News, the alleged encounter was allegedly corroborated by an alleged hotel guard who allegedly witnessed an alleged enounter with the former Senator and alleged paparazzi.

Shut Up Already.

Get over it.

Senator Kevin Bryant posted a picture knocking the slight spelling differences between “Osama” and “Obama.”

As the kids say, “BFD.”

In what must have been the slowest news week ever, the national media actually picked that up as a story and let it go for three days.

See examples HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE of media outlets with no sense of parody or who didn’t have enough advertisers to fill column inches.

With all of the fuss, you’d think Senator Bryant wrote that Senator Obama was a terrorist plotting to crash planes in to skyscrapers or that he’s sold this campaign button at the Texas GOP Convention.

THAT would have been cause for debate.

Instead, the Democrats took this opportunity to create a story where there wasn’t one. They worked to frame a picture forwarded in an e-mail that everybody had already seen to the issue du jour of a national election.

The press took the bait and ran with it.

It’s a parody picture that no one with a functional mental capacity could take as literal.

Get over yourselves and shut up already. We have real issues to address.

– Bo Burdette

UPDATE: As we usually expect from Senator Bryant, he holds his own as he tells opponents “I refuse to cower to the cultural police who evermore seek to censor our political discussion.” To take a quote from Coming to America, “That boy’s good.”