To the Old Media, there's nothing exciting about U.S. Senate filibuster to block qualified judges or the fact that dozens of Muslims are dead because of a phony story slamming the American military. Yes, what the Old Media needs is a cause celeb and a drum to beat on a "slow news Friday."

To that end, alleged photos published in a British newspaper of Saddam Hussein in his tighty-whiteys are causing quite a stir. The London Daily Mail, who couldn't care less about the fake Newsweek story, whined that the "[s]ensational pictures of Saddam Hussein in his underwear" are now "reigniting the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal."

Huh?

Nothing against The Sun newspaper, but I gotta ask: Did anyone in the Old Media peeing in their panties over this awful violation of Saddam's privacy rights check to make sure this photo is real?

Maybe it's because I'm a man that grew up in Texas but I don't consider a publishing a snapshot of a wealthy murdering dictator having to fold his own clothes while behind bars as "prisoner abuse."

Prison abuse is severe beatings, poisoning food, stabbings, sodomy, and/or taking a black permanent marker to the prisoner while he's asleep (for example, the night before his court appearance, draw a Gene Simmons from KISS-like makeup pattern on the guy's face, write "I Got Buggered in Baghdad County Jail" on the front of his jumpsuit and arrows pointing down his back below the words "Glory Hole").

Now THAT'S prisoner abuse, you idiots in the Old Media. Check with me next time before you report, will ya?

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