The fact that the media hated us anti-liberals had its definite advantages. If the media had watched Teddy Kennedy the way it watched us, Chappaquiddick would never have happened.

The Kennedys are well known drunkards and nutcases. It takes one to know one, you know. But the only problem they ever had in the media was that they wore their haloes too tight.

That is good and it is bad. It spared us a lot of grief. There were a lot of things we never had to worry about because, if one of us was doing something naughty, it would be in the Washington Post.

The exception proved the rule. Congressmen Bob Bauman and Jon Hinson were blatant homosexuals and we had no idea of it. Long before Gay Lib, we had a saying about the meida, “Homo is holy.”

So Bauman and Hinson were allowed to get away with it to such an extent that one day I showed up a a quarter to eight in the morning in the Longworth Building where our offices were and found network TV camers taking photos of the bathroom door near our office. It turned out that right there, where I went potty, Hinson and his crowd had been staging orgies.

Hinson and Bauman really went out of their way to get caught. But we had no idea of any of it.

It was an embarrassment, and in Bauman’s case, it was a real loss. We just didn’t talk about it.

We were caught completely flatfooted, which made me understand what liberals missed by not having a really hostile press.

There were many instances of this. One was a case where the FBI caught congressmen stuffing their pockets with bribes in a sting operation. Only one Republicans was involved, but the Democrats who were caught were heavy hitters in the leadership.

When someone hinted at a bribe to me, I said, “Do you have any idea what the penalties are for bribing a congressional staffer?”

It only happened once.

The first reason for this is that I am a wonderful moral paragon. The other is that the potential briber was probably a plant from a liberal outfit and I would have been caught redhanded.

But the Democrats got to the point where they were caught stuffing cash in their pockets.

That seems kind of stupid. But what the fact is that they were used to getting away with anything because they were liberals.

An entirely different example of the same phenomenon was the fact that the media hate anti-Communists. Today you will hear media people say that the reason for 9/11 was that Americans supported Isama Ben Laden and his crowd against the Russians in Afghanistan.

Well, I DID.

But what the media is really upset about is that we helped destroy the Peoples’ Peace Loving Democratic Republics. They don’t give a damn about the dead Americans on 9/11.

So what is the upside to this?

It si this: Those of us who fought the Communists actually remember OUR history.

Members of the Greatest Generation have totally forgotten what they were like when they did it in their pants and left their rifles on D-Day. That was sixty years ago.

In his own mind, every one of them is now the gutsy, dirty hero in the WWII movies, fighting against racism and fascism.

Not one person in the group that calls itself The Greatest Generation has the slightest real memory of the war itself. They are covered with praise. They are LOST in praise.

I don’t have that luxury. I also don’t habe that delusion.

It isn’t fun thinking of what the media COULD connect me with. If they could get me or my allies in connection with some of the really nasty stuff that went on — and there is no statute of limitations on a lot of that — they would.

I can’t AFFORD delusions.

Whcih makes me remember the way things WERE, not John Wayne war movies.

Would you rather be a hypnotized hero or someone who remembers exactly how things were?

If I want to be hypnotized, I can go back on drugs.