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Tuesday's Blogs from the Bog!

Tuesday's Blogs from the Bog!

• CB: HELLO??

  APR 15 Blogger CB Forgotston is writing in this post about the newest hire by Gov. Bobby Jindal, a press secretary whose only means of contact is (apparently) Twitter. (Yeah, because that worked so good for Kyle.) CB has done a little digging on the lady, but wants more info -- and he's not getting it from the source, because she won't return his twits. Twerps. Uh, tweets.

• ELLIOTT'S TAKE ON 'HYPOCRISY WATCH'

  APR 15 Blogger Elliott Stonecipher has his say on the McAllister mess in this post on Forward Now. Looks like the architects of the plan to oust McAllister are getting a little blow-back, Stonecipher opines, and it reminds him of an old cliche about revenge.

• SO BAD, THERE AIN'T EVEN A WORD YET

  APR 15 Not one to walk past a golden opportunity, Democrat John Bel Edwards says his piece in this Picayune post on the GOP's issue du jour. The hypocrisy of the GOP calling on McAllister to resign and staying silent on Vitter is so massive there's not even a word for it, Edwards says, and so he came up with his own: hypo-hypocrisy.

• ANOTHER STORY ON KALEGATE, IF YOU CAN TAKE IT

  APR 15 Here's Grist's take on the so-called kalegate issue over in NOLA. If you've forgotten, it all started when a Dutch actress said that New Orleans is not cosmopolitan because you can't get kale there (Sister, you can get kale at the Wal-Mart in Lafayette. Where you shopping?) This post, by Heather Hansman, also gets into the larger (class/elitism) issues brought to light by this discussion.

• MORE POLLS FULL OF SOUND & FURY, SIGNIFYING NOTHING

  APR 15 Here's the latest poll done on the Congressional race over in Baton Rouge that is distinguished by the presence of one of Louisiana's most famous felons, reported by LaPolitics. This poll (done by a GOP candidate in the race) says that a majority of those contacted don't want Edwards to be a Congressman. That's a reverse of another poll done a few weeks ago, but hey, poll results like Louisiana weather -- give 'em a few minutes, they'll change.

• DREHER: 'THIS DIVERSITY THING IS A RACKET'

  APR 15 It's always entertaining to read what white American men have to say about diversity, and this post by blogger Rod Dreher is no different. He's addressing a column by a Harvard student about the lack of meaningful diversity at that university. As expected, Dreher disagrees, and gives us a lecture on how progressives are lying to themselves (and everybody else).

• NYT: 'AMID CHARGES OF HYPOCRISY...'

  APR 15 Here's the New York Times story on the McAllister (ahem) affair. Giving us the story briefly, it then focuses on the words of regular West Monroeans who were interviewed by the venerable publication. The bottom line? The hypocrisy of the GOP's contempt for McAllister and silence on Vitter is not lost on these people,  and it didn't take the writer long to pick up on the racial differences of that (virtually segregated) community.

• QUESTIONS LINGER IN HOSPITAL PRIVATIZATION DEAL

  APR 15 A year after Gov. Jindal sold (wups - privatized) our public hospital system, some of these deals still don't have federal Medicaid-Medicare approval, and nobody has any answer as to what will happen if that approval never comes, AP's Melinda Deslatte writes in this post.