I am M.A.D., a regular consumer of a product The McClatchy Company manufactures and distributes each day that it calls "news". Agents of this third largest distributor of newspapers in the United States have delivered the "dead tree" version to my doorstep each morning for more than two years. I have consumed cyberspace versions of their product on the internet since at least 2001.

I have complaints concerning both versions of their news products. In fact, I have been mad at McClatchy for years, and decided I am not going to take it anymore.

Hence, M.A.D. at McClatchy is born.

As I alluded to above, I have consumed McClatchy's fallen timber news every day for two years. Rarely do the headlines of the news stories bear any relationship with the truth. This is especially so with respect to war, religion, government domestic and foreign policy and politics. But McClatchy is perfectly capable of lying with respect to any subject, and very often injects politics into stories that have nothing to do with politics.

Now, to the usual template applied to the arrangement of sentences and paragraphs under the headlines. The first few sentences are usually a paraphrase of the lie one has just read in the headline which either incorporates therein or is immediately followed by, an example of B.D.S. Most often one can find no basis in fact in the article for the headline nor the editorial conclusions polluting a product called news. However, one can usually find important and relevant facts that contradict the headline, buried in the last few paragraphs of the storied. They like to have deniability. So they put lies and the truth in each story. The devil said the best lies are half-truths, but just as when one adds a positive and negative number, one gets a negative number; when one reports x and anti-x, one gets a lie.

B.D.S. or “Bush Derangement Syndrome” is a psychological disorder diagnosed by Charles Krauthammer, M.D. soon after the 2001 inauguration of the forty-third President of the United States, as afflicting most news manufacturers, including McClatchy.

The affliction was most probably first contracted in Palm Beach and/or Tallahassee, Florida between November-December 2000, but the epidemic proportions of the disorder were not fully appreciated until 72 hours after our 2003 liberation of Iraq when the Arab nation failed to resemble Connecticut. It appears that most, but not all, of those afflicted with B.D.S. either had weakened immune systems due to overexposure to leftist world views and/or had not yet been mugged by reality.

M.A.D. at McClatchy mugs for reality, is a cure for B.D.S. and is the anecdote for other lesser syndromes and diseases that most often result in the election of failed policy enacting liberal democrats.

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