Civil War Tour

"Civil War Tour"*

*A bus driver is conducting a tour of famous Civil War battle sites.

"Here," he points out at one spot, "is where the
Southern troops routed a whole regiment of
Yankees. Over there, the Rebs wiped out a whole
platoon of Yanks. Down about a mile, there's
another valley where we captured a thousand
Union soldiers."

A tourist says, "Didn't the North ever win a battle?"

"Yes ma'am. But not while I'm driving this bus."

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"Media Bias By Demand"*

*In these days when allegations of media bias
are so common, it is easy to forget a time when
people read newspapers because of their bias.
Colonel Robert R. McCormick's Chicago Tribune is
a case in point.

McCormick, whom his critics dubbed the greatest
mind of the nineteenth century, made no visible
effort to restrict his opinions to the editorial page.

Suspicious of anything east of Gary, Indiana, the
Colonel reserved a special hatred for New York
and its inhabitants.

"Tom Dewey is not an American," McCormick
grumbled in 1944. "He's a New Yorker."
Received on Thu May 28 05:23:56 2009