19 April 2008

What You WON'T see on Fox News...



Well, at least, not the whole thing. Bradblog has the whole story - and how O'Reilly showed only 5 seconds of it before "discussing" whether now this guy should be sanctioned as well. Sigh...so predictable.

The little twerp interviewer had NO WHERE to go. Just his desperate little talking points. I love how they try to whitewash and sugarcoat MLK. Anyone read this little speech?

Meanwhile, anyone heard that the woman who asked Obama about that all important lapel pin actually proves his (and Rich's) point? I don't want to be cruel, but hope that pin helps her pay her husband's medical bills. Am I an elitist for thinking people like her are too stupid to vote? Obama was being KIND.

13 April 2008

Oh....The BITTER Irony...



It's the Rich thesis. Everyone who is jumping on Obama, from McCain and Clinton to the Pundits, knows it. But let's all pretend we don't.

I'm bitter. In fact, I'm proud that I'm bitter. Otherwise I must be rich or a fool. And I'm certainly not rich. I'm George Carlin bitter. I'm Network bitter. "Bitter" was nice of him. Fucking pissed off and mad as Hell is more like it - but he's got some class. Hell, they're lucky we're not all Marxists at this point. And Matalin's dismissive "it's called a dynamic global economy" explanation as a way of saying they have no right to be bitter was just sublime (fast-forward to 10:40). They should clearly just get over losing their jobs, healthcare, pensions. Don't those fine people get it? It's just globalization. Jeesh! What simpletons! But it's Obama that is "demeaning" them. It's Obama who is an "elitist". But of course... why aren't Europeans losing healthcare, pensions, etc.? Aren't they part of a global economy? Hmmmmmm.

As I said in the last post, if Americans fall for this, they deserve everything they get.

10 April 2008

It's the Ideology, Stupid!

A photo of the Americans being polled. No insult to Penguins intended.




Americans are so fucking stupid it hurts.

No. Really. They are. And I've had it.

And yet, this is what I've feared would happen, all along.

Let me back up a little. I have been saying, for years really, and I do not consider myself to be a genius, by a longshot, that it is dangerous to simply paint the horrors, politically, economically, socially, and in foreign policy, of the Bush Administration as simply being about BUSH's politics. It is NOT "Bush". It is CONSERVATISM (call it "neo" if you want to but who cares...).

My fear was that people who have at least enough brain cells to recognize the disaster that has been 8 years of Republican rule, will simply chalk it up to BUSH being a bad guy, NOT that CONSERVATISM is a bad IDEA for governing a vast, diverse people and economy. Therefore, when given a choice and the opportunity to get rid of the disaster which they themselves recognize, they willingly go right back to it. All we need is another, actually competent, Republican, they say. One who seems more "reasonable", maybe.

And damnit if they don't want to write their own country's epitaph. I just read this article on CNN's ticker, and, long story short, Americans - 81% of whom apparently think this country's going in the wrong direction, but don't seem to have a clue as to why, or who is to blame; almost 70% of whom claim not to approve of Bush's job performance - prove this disconnect. Yep, Americans would go completely apeshit over a McCain/Condoleeza "I-believe-it-said-bin-Laden-determined-to-attack-in-the-United-States" Rice ticket. Seriously. I am not making this up. It says that this ticket would beat either of the two Democrats, AND, either pairing of the two on a single ticket, in an election. In an election in NEW YORK. I am not making this up. They think that the way to get us out of what they themselves recognize is a disaster, is to elect one of the architects of that disaster, along with her trusty sidekick, the guy who agrees with everything she did. To re-elect the very mindset that is causing the problem.

There is now, officially, a complete disconnect in the electorate's mind between ideology, party, policy, and candidates. This is the result of YEARS of the press treating elections as if they were about competing personalities, not competing ideologies. It is the equivalent of a voter being angry at, let's say, a communist president because of his policy of confiscating private property, and then in the next election, because they think he seems like a "stand up' kind of guy, voting for another member of the communist party to replace him.

Truly depressing. Thoroughly demoralizing. I. Give. Up.