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I’ll give ‘Iowa Voice’ credit where credit is due. It takes alot of balls to beg for money on the internet while simultaneously preaching the rhetoric of personal responsibility.

I’ve come to the conclusion there must be some kind of hypocrisy gene inherent to GOP true believers. That, or they simply have a blindspot recognizing irony when it comes to their own behavior. You know, like Bush lecturing to us about energy independence in his SOTU speech last night while appointing Exxon execs to direct the EPA and govern our foreign policy. Or William Bennett preaching to us about ethics while throwing millions of dollars away on gambling sprees. Pat Robertson smiting segments of the population on behalf of God while calling for the assasination of Democratically elected political leaders. Karl Rove telling us who is and is not patriotic while outing a CIA operative for reasons of petty, political pay-back. The list goes on, and it’s a long one.

It’s quite clear that far too many Republicans have no sense of shame. There is little they won’t shill for or speak out of the other side of their mouth on as long as it means securing another political ‘victory’ or reaping some semblance of power and financial gain.

In that tradition, it is our high honor to present the ‘Iowa Voice’ with this blog’s inaugural Clown of the Week award.

Congratulations, ‘Iowa Voice’! The offer is still on the table whenever you want to cash it in.

[update:2/07/06]
The ‘Iowa Voice’ has gone to my hosting provider with the expressed intent of shutting the Iowa Underground Blog and Forums down. You can read more about that here. So now is a good time to copy/paste a few sentences from the ‘Iowa Voice’ – via e-mail correspondence regarding our photoshopped pics of him less than a week ago:

“I don’t care so much about the pics (except when you hotlink), that’s not my problem. I could care less if you and your “artists” do whatever it is you do with my pictures (tip: have plenty of tissues handy while you’re doing it).”

[new!] Click here to see TH1974’s effort.

Serenade yourself with that song you sing, ‘Voice!
[The cantankerous ‘Iowa Voice’ has requested the song ‘Send In The Clowns’ be removed or else he’ll sue. I’m no lawyer but in the interest of good-sporsmanship I’ll oblige him considering it’s probably his intellectual (ahem) property or some such thing and I did download/upload it to my server for distribution. So if you’d like to listen to the song, just follow the link in the post below instead! And please, send a little business hisway. He could really use the cash!

• tristero

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