It makes sense right? The media should totally follow the story of a guy if he's in Congress, making laws on behalf of his constituents, and ends up clearly guilty of accepting bribes, yet nonetheless manages to stay extremely close in his reelection bid, only to finally be declared the loser of the razor-thin election roughly a month after the fact? It's totally fair that the media follows that story, right?
Well, the media has not been doing it's job in following around Bill "Cold Hard Cash" Jefferson. Jefferson, or BCHCJ as I call him for short (not really), was finally defeated in his re-election bid in Louisiana's 2nd district. To speak to the relevance of his defeat, the Democrat was defeated in this heavily black district by none other than Vietnamese Republican (don't laugh) Anh "Joseph" Cao.
I know the bribery aspects of his story are older, but I have no idea why this guy got almost no coverage when Ted Stevens was all over the news. I guess Senators have roughly 4.35 times as much power as Representatives (though Stevens got more than 4.35 times as much coverage) and I suppose the whole 60-seat thing really drove the narrative on the Senate election this year. Either way, even very involved people I know don't know about BCHCJ, so I think the story was underreported. Either way, he lost, so hurrah to that!
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I agree. This didn't even get the coverage it deserved when the story first broke.
ReplyDeleteI plan to refer him as BCHCJ exclusively from now on. For realzies.
I will also steal BCHCJ, though I do often enjoy jokes linking the two William Jeffersons (BCHCJ and Slick Willy) of our modern political era.
ReplyDeleteOn a side note, I think we must start the American Politicians With Anglicized Nicknames Club with founding members Barack 'Barry' Obama and Ahn 'Joseph' Cao. This club is a subset of the American Politicians With Real American Nicknames Club (since any Anglicized nickname is inherently American. Duh.), which includes Joseph 'Amtrak Joe' Biden. The most general form of the club, which includes both of the previous categories, is the American Politicians With Nicknames Club, which includes, among others, Ted 'I'll show you a bribe' Stevens and William 'Slick Willy' Clinton. Wait, maybe Clinton's nickname is fitting for the Real American Club after all (Is there anything more American than abusing power while desecrating the sanctity of marriage?). Since this hierarchy is quickly becoming more complex than the promotions system in Scientology I am going to end it here.
That's funny.
ReplyDeleteDid you know Greta-van-Lookslikeahorse is a Scientologist? Cuz I didn't.
Haha. I did not, but I love that she finally had the courage to use her real name.
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