Big Mouth Biden Lies Again!

When Hillary Clinton was less than truthful about getting shot at while on a visit to Bosnia, the mainstream media was all over her for her fib.

Yet Joe Biden is telling stories himself and apparently getting a pass from the drive bys. Obama's running mate talks about the green zone in Bagdhad "where I have been seven times and shot at." However, Fox News reports that the Hill newspaper said Biden when asked to clarify "backpedaled from his claim of being 'shot at' and instead allowed: 'I was near where a shot landed.'"

In the upcoming Vice Presidential Debate with Republican nominee Sarah Palin, Biden plans to hit Palin on her knowledge of "the superhighway of terror between Pakistan and Afghanistan where my helicopter was forced down."

Turns out though the helicopter had to land because of lousy weather, not superhighway terrorists, and Biden was quickly retrieved by a US Military convoy all the while with American fighter jets overhead to protect him.

"Let's start telling the truth," Biden said during a presidential primary debate sponsored by YouTube last year. Yes, Joe, let's. And while you're at it lets explain why you and Barack Obama beat up Hillary for her lies but you get a pass.

It's Going To Be A Shady Christmas

This is one of those issues that you can not trust the MSM to get right and where blogs like this perform a valuable service.

This week the City Clowncil voted to step in and take over the financially failing Hollywood Christmas Parade. For years the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce has operated this parade but last year has lost over $100,000 and expected to lose twice that this year. This is due to declining interest in the parade by the community and television stations who paid for the rights to air it.

The parade has been produced in recent years by Pageantry Productions, a Lynwood based event planning company that has been involved in many festivals, events, etc. sponsored by the City.

Chamber insiders tell the Sister City that it is their view Pageantry's alleged poor management of the event is responsible for their losses. Individuals involved with events sponsored by other groups also tell this blog that they blame Pageantry for lousing up their events.

Pageantry is owned by Bill Lomas, reportedly a close associate of Councilman Tom LaBonge. It was LaBonge who sought and got the Council to fund the event in his district.

This is what the mainstream media will not tell you; they go for the warm and fuzzy angle that the parade is back on - rather than reporting on the true nature of how business is done in the city and all the behind scenes action that is responsible for the mess we are in. Indeed, they cluelessly call it a "miracle." How hard are these lazy "journalists" actually working?

The honest truth is that the Hollywood Chamber lost their way when they turned the event over to professionals. These types of events need to be organized by the stakeholders in the community, who know the community and have its heart and soul close to them. This is the type of event that both government and private business are ill-suited to produce.

Say hi to Santa Shady!