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June 24, 2008

The Big Lizards "Name That Party" Drinking Game!

Hatched by Dafydd

Welcome, gentle readers. Here are the official rules to the new, fad drinking game of -- Name That Political Party.

Here are the rules:

Find a story published by some member of the elite media (or wannabe-elite) about political corruption;

If the first paragraph of the story reveals that the corrupt pol is a Republican, take a shot each and every time the story mentions that urgent fact;

Contrariwise, if the first paragraph of the story does not say anything about the political party of the indicted, investigated, or indicted politician, take one shot for each and every paragraph that does not mention any political party;

Finally, in the event of rule (3), where the story does not mention the political party of the elected official of interest, you must look him or her up by other means -- and if it turns out, by wild coincidence, that he or she is a Democrat, you must take two more shots.

Here is a sample, so you can see how the game is played...

The story in the Baltimore Sun (in the elite-wannabe category, I would say) is "Dixon gifts probed; Prosecutors look at mayor's ties to developer who got city breaks." It begins thus:

Prosecutors are investigating whether Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon received thousands of dollars in gifts -- including fur coats -- from a prominent developer whose projects benefited from tax breaks and zoning changes she supported as City Council president, a document obtained by The Sun shows.

We can now begin the game. Note that the first paragraph does not say "Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon, a Republican;" thus we invoke rule 3, and you must drink a shot for the opening paragraph (running shot total: 1).

A little later in the article, we find this paragraph:

Dixon was also scheduled to meet with Lipscomb and Sen. Ulysses Currie, a Prince George's County Democrat who is now under federal investigation, in February 2004, according to the documents. They do not say what the meeting was about.

Although this says nothing about the political affiliation of Mayor Dixon herself, it does mention a political party; thus technically you do not have to take a shot for this paragraph... only for the intervening paragraphs from the beginning until this one (running shot total: 26). (If you're simultaneously playing the "Politicians With Doofus Names drinking game," add another shot for "Ulysses Currie" and increase all totals below by 1.)

There are no other mentions of political parties in the story, so just take a shot for each of the remaining paragraphs (running shot total: 32).

Finally, per rule 4, we turn to Wikipedia and look up the party of Ms. Dixon (final shot total: 34).

See? Another marvelous media method to get faced, courtesy the malevolent muttonheads at the MSM!

Hatched by Dafydd on this day, June 24, 2008, at the time of 2:53 PM

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The following hissed in response by: boffo

How many shots do you take when the elite media simply don't bother to mention a scandal about Democratic corruption, such as with the Subprime Six?

The above hissed in response by: boffo at June 24, 2008 4:13 PM

The following hissed in response by: Bookworm

Here's a good one for someone who wants to get drunk. The story describes the most reprehensible behavior imaginable from a Massachusetts representative. Nowhere in the news story does one learn the representative's political party. One has to go to the guy's own web page to find out that he's . . . hold onto your hat here . . . a DEMOCRAT!

The above hissed in response by: Bookworm at June 24, 2008 4:16 PM

The following hissed in response by: hunter

I have noticed this for years.
This may be the first time I have seen them actively lie to avoid mentioning the criminal being in the democratic party.
What a disgusting abuse of freedom the press engages in.
At their rate of dissipation, they will likely squander that freedom in the not too distant future.

The above hissed in response by: hunter at June 24, 2008 8:30 PM

The following hissed in response by: MarkJM

Daffdd,
You need to also add sub-rule 4b, whereas a quote from a noted Republican (prominently labelled as such) will be used in the same paragraph where words such as indict, corruption and scandal are used without any mention of Democrat within the entire article, even though the perpetrator of the 'scandal' is in fact a Democrat. This is cleverly done to ensure that a 'google' or any other search engine will return at least twice as many hits when searching for 'corruption Republican' than when searching for 'curruption Democrat'. I believe we really need to get legal people involved, because this is truly becoming 'criminal mischief'!(A 3 shot bonus round) What say you?

The above hissed in response by: MarkJM at June 25, 2008 6:49 AM

The following hissed in response by: MarkJM

NOTE: The search engine thing mentioned above is primarily an 'AP' phenom, as they are the 'inventor' of this technique and use it frequently. Leaving 'AP' out of the search will generate more truthful results, mainly due to many websites and blogs detailing such misleading 'reporting' by the AP.

The above hissed in response by: MarkJM at June 25, 2008 7:27 AM

The following hissed in response by: Dafydd ab Hugh

Boffo:

How many shots do you take when the elite media simply don't bother to mention a scandal about Democratic corruption, such as with the Subprime Six?

Six.

Dafydd

The above hissed in response by: Dafydd ab Hugh at June 25, 2008 1:36 PM

The following hissed in response by: PC14

This is widespread. I'm currently reading Carl Hiassen's Downhill Lie, a tale of Hiassen taking up golf after a 30 year layoff. Hiassen is a liberal columnist for The Miami Herald and in this ultra light read, he manages to get in some shots of Bush and Republicans. He mentions Jack Abramoff and of course Ohio Congressman Bob Ney. And unless anyone doesn't know Ney is a Republican, Hiassen points that out. But of course he doesn't mention the many Democrats who also had ties to Abramoff. These MSM guys just can't help themselves.

I looked up the country club in Florida where Hiassen is a member. It's $165,000 to join and $11,000 a year.

The above hissed in response by: PC14 at June 25, 2008 1:56 PM