Okay, let's take a look at some of the hot topics this week:
-- The rumor concerning an alleged affair between John Kerry and an "intern" that had been peddled by Matt Drudge and promoted by wrongwing hate radio completely collapsed -- and raised questions about the handful of media outlets that did pick up the rumor as "news".
-- A bogus photograph of John Kerry and Jane Fonda that had been posted to a few right wing bulletin boards by a right-wing thug from Michigan who profited from the theft of the 200 election actually got picked up by the print press -- to their great embarrassment.
-- Former Texas governor George W. Bush's economic team backed down big time from a lofty forecast of well over 2,00,000 new jobs this year.
__ A new slew of polls show the "Connecticut Cowboy" losing handily to both John Kerry and John Edwards.
-- In San Francisco, the mayor gave officials a green light to issue marriage certificates to gay and lesbian couples.
We're sure you can guess which one of the above was the only topic discussed in depth this "Pundit Sunday" morning. That's right -- the gay marriages, a topic that plays right into Karl Rove's plans to use this wedge issue to distract from miserable failures in the arenas of the blood feud with the Saddam Hussein family, the legitimate campaign to stop international criminal terror thugs, the nation's economy, health care, education and energy by his client Mr. Bush.
Despite being shorthanded, we did manage to catch two of the big shows this Sunday:
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