Hillbilly blogger scoops CNN

And the New York Times and all the rest of them.

At this very moment CNN has this story at the top of the "this just in" list at their home page.

Really, those newsy types should start reading this blog, because they would have read about it right here two days ago.

But even more really, it's another perfect example of the major media in America refusing to touch a story that's been around for days, presumably because they're waiting to see which way the political winds are blowing.

Julian Assange gets political asylum in Ecuador

The Correa government announced today that it had granted asylum to the Wikileaks founder.

This won't sit well with either the British or the US, who are keen to get some sort of revenge for the embarrassment caused by the hundreds of thousands of classified e-mails Assange released.

I don't think they need to worry. The vast majority of Brits and Americans couldn't care less what lies their governments told them years ago. They are far more interested in the current lies, and then interested only insofar as the lies make them feel good.

The people would prefer comforting lies to uncomfortable truths.