Fractured Fairy Tales

Media Whores Online tells us the tale of Vennochio, the glove puppet who wanted to be a real journalist, but instead made out of a jackass of herself because she couldn't stop lying. The incomparable Bob Somerby demonstrates out that Vennochio was fibbing again in her e-mail to Dan Kennedy, when she claimed that Kerry was not "fully disclosing" his ethnic heritage. Somerby points out that Kerry's heritage was known to Vennochio's Boston Globe colleagues even as Vennochio was claiming that Kerry was hiding facts. (Vennochio argues that Kerry was covering up the facts "locally" while disclosing them on national television shows, apparently relying the little-known fact that television was first introduced to Boston in late 1990s.) As a bonus, Somerby recalls that Vennochio has been lying about Democratic Presidential candidates since at least 2000.

The only thing that could make Vennochio's fairy tales more loathsome is if Roberto Benigni was somehow involved in the whole sordid mess.