{"id":14,"date":"2005-08-03T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-04T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bcrockett.com\/blog\/?p=14"},"modified":"2005-08-03T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-04T01:00:00","slug":"unfair-unbalanced-but-mostly-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bcrockett.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/unfair-unbalanced-but-mostly-true\/","title":{"rendered":""Unfair, Unbalanced, but mostly True.""},"content":{"rendered":"

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Steven Browning and I have though for years (and years) about starting a news program. Our motto will be “Unfair, Unbalanced, but mostly True.”<\/b><\/p>\n

Normally, I don’t care much about team sports like Football, Hockey, or Horse Shoes, and especially not Baseball, but…I think I found the first story I’d report on our program (pronounced “progrum”).<\/p>\n

It would be about the recent Rafael Palmiero steroid scandal, and while pretending that I care about baseball, I’d say something like:<\/p>\n

Rafael Palmiero told a congressional panel in March, and I quote- “I have never used steroids. Period.” But then on Monday the Baltimore Orioles “slugger” was suspended from the MLB for 10 days for using steroids. While he didn’t deny testing positive for the drugs, he insisted that ingesting them was an accident. <\/p>\n

“When I testified in front of Congress, I know that I was testifying under oath, and I told the truth,” he said Monday. “Today I am telling the truth again that I did not do this intentionally or knowingly.” <\/p>\n

An accident? Did Rafie sit on a steroid-infested syringe hidden in the cushions of his tour bus by someone with a grudge against the “slugger?” Did he think he suddenly contracted diabetes and needed insulin, and then–tragically, the very medicine he thought would help him, ended up being the WRONG medicine, and it instead made his muscles inflate to abnormal sizes? An accident, Mr. Palmiero? Probably. <\/p>\n

The guy isn’t a cheater, he’s just an idiot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steven Browning and I have though for years (and years) about starting a news program. Our motto will be “Unfair, Unbalanced, but mostly True.” Normally, I don’t care much about team sports like Football, Hockey, or Horse Shoes, and especially not Baseball, but…I think I found the first story I’d report on our program (pronounced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t