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On You World with Neil Cavuto, I heard Lis Wiehl (A Fox Legal Analyst!) opining on the John Edwards revelation:

The other question, too, is for the voters in his district: Can they impeach him over this?

Indeed. Can the voters of North Carolina impeach a man who holds no elective office -- anywhere?

It's a very interesting question. I'm sure Fox News will get to the bottom of it.

Shorter "Simon" at Classical Values:

If John McCain really wants to win this race, might I suggest that he bring along his ex-wife on the campaign trail? After all, here was a woman he divorced following a disfiguring accident, a woman he cheated on, and a woman with whom he was still wedded while he went off and married another woman, the beer heiress Cindy Hensley. Seriously!

Some guy with a law degree from Yale ponders news coverage of President Bush:

BUSH GREETED BY CROWDS OF PRO-AMERICAN PROTESTERS IN KOREA. Funny, did that make the news?

You know, I don't know. Oh, if only there were some way to find out!

Hey, here's a headline from an obscure-sounding publication called The New York Times: "Koreans cheer and jeer as Bush arrives"

About 30,000 people gathered in front of Seoul City Hall for an afternoon Christian prayer service supporting Bush's trip. Large South Korean and U.S. flags were held aloft by balloons overhead along with a banner reading, "Welcome President Bush."

Many of them were middle-aged female Christian church members who chanted "Amen!" as a senior pastor shouted from the podium that anti-Bush protesters gathering 300 yards away were "satanic" forces.

The crowd also included many elderly men in military uniforms. "The United States made sacrifices for South Korea during the Korean War and helped us live well," said Kim Jung-kwang, a 67-year-old retired air force colonel who wore his military uniform to the rally. "The United States is not our enemy. Without the U.S., we will die."

And I guess there's this international wire service called the Associated Press, which noted in its article:

About 30,000 people gathered in front of Seoul City Hall for an afternoon Christian prayer service supporting Bush's trip. Large South Korean and U.S. flags were held aloft by balloons overhead along with a banner reading, "Welcome President Bush."

"The United States made sacrifices for South Korea during the Korean War and helped us live well," said Kim Jung-kwang, a 67-year-old retired air force colonel who wore his military uniform to the rally. "The United States is not our enemy. Without the U.S., we will die."

The USA Today, which I just learned has the largest circulation for a newspaper in the United States, printed this article, which informs:

Earlier [Bush] had received a warmer reception: a 21-gun salute and prayers from 30,000 South Korean well-wishers who turned out in the Seoul City Hall to welcome him.

Despite occasional protests, polls show that a majority of South Koreans have a favorable view of the United States. President Lee Myung Bak is a former business executive who was elected in a landslide in December with a conservative, pro-U.S. platform.

It's pretty clear that this is just another conspiracy by the mainstream press to hide pro-Bush information by reporting on pro-Bush rallies. Typical. Thank goodness we have our Sharp-Eyed Supersleuths of the Internet to bring attention to this stuff.

MORE: Reuters offers video of the pro-Bush rally. And here's yet another dispatch from AP which focuses entirely on the rally. Here's a report from the LA Times. Perhaps sensing that he has no idea what he's talking about, the professor later updates his post and prints an email from a reader ("I'm no fan of the Beeb") noting that the BBC covered the rally. So let's see. The NYT, AP, USA Today, LA Times, Reuters and the BBC all covered the rally. To some bloggers on the right, it's a near-blackout.

MUCH LATER: It gets even better. The fine folks over at Newsbusters seem to have also misplaced their Google. "Where were the reports of this massive outpouring of affection for George W. Bush?" -- the estimable Warner Todd Huston wails, while at the same time noting that Reuters reported on the event that Warner Todd Huston complained they weren't reporting on. Also, mysteriously appended to Mr. Huston's post were photos of the massive rally snapped by a couple of independent, scrappy bloggers named AP and Reuters.

There's even more fun to be had in the comments, where Newsbuster guy Chris Norman notices that the blackout has been extended even further, this time to the folks at Disney: "ABC News Radio opened their hourly report yesterday afternoon with the announcement that Bush was greeted in South Korea by protesters (against US beef) who were handled with water cannons. They went on to say that 'even more' people turned out to cheer him - but that was secondary to the notation of the protesters. Why start with the protesters?"

Indeed. It makes you wonder why the Debbie Downer Press just doesn't bury all the other stuff that might be important to know: "It was a splendid sunny day in Dallas yesterday, puffy clouds and singing birds, marred only by a single homicide near Dealey Plaza..."