Sometimes they make it too easy (and today is a great day, don't forget it)

See the way he walks down the street
Watch the way he shuffles his feet
My, he holds his head up high
When he goes walking by
He's my guy

When he holds my hand I'm so proud
'Cause he's not just one of the crowd
My baby, oh he's the one
To try the things they've never done
Just because of that they say

CHORUS
He's a rebel and he'll never ever be any good
He's a rebel and he'll never ever be understood
And just because he doesn't do what everybody else does
That's no reason why I can't give him all my love
He is always good to me, always treats me tenderly
'Cause he's not a rebel, no no no
He's not a rebel, no no no, to me

INSTRUMENTAL

If they don't like him that way, they won't like me after today
I'll be standing right by his side, when they say

CHORUS
He's a rebel and he'll never ever be any good
He's a rebel 'cause he never ever does what he should
And just because he doesn't do what everybody else does
That's no reason why we can't share a love
He is always good to me, good to him I'll try to be
'Cause he's not a rebel, no no no
He's not a rebel, no no no, to me
(He's not a rebel, no no no
He's not a rebel, no no no
He's not a rebel, no no no
He's not a rebel, no no no)

Why quote the Crystal's hit from 1962? Maybe this NYT headline had something to do with it. To mangle another quote, I guess 'every mainstream media outlet loves a fascist'.

So far, FNC seems to be cheerleading for today's events, and CNN and MSNBC seem to be trying to ignore them. I'm flipping and could be missing the positive reports being aired on CNN and MSNBC but given past performance somehow I doubt it.

UPDATE: I should have known, I should have known, I should have known.

This post makes no sense whatsoever now. I copied this photo from the article as originally posted. I haven't changed the link, yet the headline has gone from mentioning a lack of REBEL activity to one that more innocuously states "Heavy Sunni Turnout as Iraqis Vote for Parliament". I don't remember the exact wording, but I know I didn't imagine it. My mind wouldn't have leaped immediately to the Crystal's song had they not specifically used the word 'rebel' in the headline. I'm pretty sure that the body of the article has changed too. There were other mentions of the 'rebels', now they are 'insurgents' and 'guerrillas'.

I hadn't considered the possibility that the memory hole was going to be used. I should have known better. The picture has changed, too. The one I copied is much better, the pictures in their slideshow are all much more dour, dingy and 'war torn' looking.

I'm emailing this to the big dogs to see if anyone saved a copy of the original headline and text cause this kind of after the fact changing of wording would be considered amateurish if done by a blogger and is downright malpractice when done by the 'paper of record'.