I've been trying to ignore the election campaign as much as possible. I definitely don't want to take this blog very far into politics except where politics and digital technology cross. However, every once in a while something comes along that is either below the major media radar or is deliberately ignored and should be noted, if only so that I'll remember it later. Boing Boing points out that in Lloyd Groves column in the Daily News reports that on "Fox News Sunday," the speaker of the House Dennis Hastert (Ill. - Rep) insinuated that billionaire financier George Soros, who's funding an independent media campaign to dislodge President Bush, is getting his bucks from illegal drug sources. The way Hastert insinuated it was typical of the modern American political discourse: "I'm saying I don't know where groups - could be people who support this type of thing. I'm saying we don't know." Never say anything straight out, imply your opponent is evil, you can always state "I didn't really say that". Soros is demanding an apology (pdf). We'll see if Hastert tries to weasle out of it. I don't mean any disrespect to weasles by comparing a politician to a weasle.