Dick Durbin Killed the Radio Star

posted at 4:50 pm on October 6, 2009 by Track-A-'Crat
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Yes, I know, another post about the media.  But it’s like manna from Heaven: infinite in supply and nourishing for the soul.

The hero of this misadventure is Sen. Dick Durbin, who, it seems to me, is happy enough to be surrounded by cameras in the pic above.

But appearances can be deceptive and he’s apparently a rather fickle publicity-whore.

As evidenced by the terrible fate that’s befallen WTAD, the oldest radio station in Quincy, IL.  After having the temerity to alert the commoners to the fact that their elected representative would soon be gracing their town with his presence, Durbin’s office swiftly retaliated by informing the station that it would no longer be included on the list of those receiving notices from the senator about his forthcoming visits to West-Central Illinois.

Which, come to think of it, really is a gross violation of the media’s proper role of complete subservience to their Democratic overlords.  How dare they make available to the public any information not explicitly approved for release by the senator himself?

Durbin, you’ll no doubt recall, is the epitome of moral strength and character after hosting his own version of a health-care town hall meeting which emulated the proper version in exactly no ways at all.  Whereas the originals were large, open and energetic, Dick’s counterfeit product was small, private and limp.  Any innuendo in that last sentence was entirely accidental, honest.

Excommunication awaits any and all unruly media outlets, until they learn to emulate the unparalleled journalistic integrity of TIME Magazine.

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