Heroes and Villains
(apologies to Brian Wilson)
It's an amazing cast appointed, annointed, and otherwise trotted out on the runway these days by "our" Repressive machine-with-a-mandate. Maybe the strategy is that a three-ring event increases the chance of backstage stuff going undetected. The "villain du jour"would be one James Guckert, though his underwear apparently has "Gannon" stitched in it when he's doing his woefully sophomoric imitation of a journalist at the White House
It's beyond imagining what the real story is here, but given the appalling censorship and secrecy surrounding our uberfuhrer - unprecedented as far as I can tell outside of the Soviet bloc and Third Reich - it seems likely to be a good long time before anything resembling truth emerges. Slim as the electoral margin sanctioned by the sycophantic mainstream media might have been, even with criminally racist voter suppression and every other imaginable type of cheating, these guys seem to think they can keep milking that "mandate" as an anti-reality charm. But despite effectively owning most of the mainstream media, they are apparently so paranoid as to have spawned a media prostitution racket in hopes of conning yet more easy marks needing help with their "heil bush" salutes.
On the off-chance you have not plumbed the latest "white" (!) house buffoonery (accounts of your extra-galaxy trip appreciated), a few leads:
Media Matters
Olbermann
Frank Rich at NYT: "The White House Stages Its 'Daily Show'"
Okay. I don't know about you, but with this sort of late-1930's-austria zaniness in play, I seek reassurance that there still be Heroes. I'm not interested so much in close-fitting primary-colored tights or deus-ex-machina trickery. But some magic in the way of courage and that shibboleth of talking truth to power would be nice. For starters, the aforementioned Ritter seems a good one to put up in a joust with the pathetic little talonless G-man.
Dahr Jamail appears to be another remarkable soul, somehow performing acts of independent non-embedded journalism inside Iraq. It's easy to understand how he might be more concerned about the risk from our military than the Iraqi resistance. But forget the subtleties - ponder for a mo what it would take to get you on a plane to Baghdad next week.
I am also nominating for the Hero category oneWard Churchill. This guy has stuck his finger in a lot of eyes recently. Clearly he is not one to fret over being pc, and as one genetically prone to overdo pc-ness, that is refreshing. Some of Churchill's hyperbole and rhetorical flourishes disturb and offend me of course, but a truly moral, ethical person cannot imho simply discount the unpleasant truth and reality behind his words. Our nation has commonly pursued policies amounting to terrorism and war-crimes against countless smaller nations for decades. Most recently our unprovoked invasion of Iraq has involved routine, cavalier use of monstrously destructive munitions in situations where extensive civilian casualties are inevitable and the strategic goal is marginal at best. We can mourn the results of retribution, but we dare not pretend it is unprovoked. The downtrodden inevitably produce Heroes too.
Stand or fall I know there
Shall be peace in the valley
And it’s all an affair
Of my life with the heroes and villains
It's an amazing cast appointed, annointed, and otherwise trotted out on the runway these days by "our" Repressive machine-with-a-mandate. Maybe the strategy is that a three-ring event increases the chance of backstage stuff going undetected. The "villain du jour"would be one James Guckert, though his underwear apparently has "Gannon" stitched in it when he's doing his woefully sophomoric imitation of a journalist at the White House
It's beyond imagining what the real story is here, but given the appalling censorship and secrecy surrounding our uberfuhrer - unprecedented as far as I can tell outside of the Soviet bloc and Third Reich - it seems likely to be a good long time before anything resembling truth emerges. Slim as the electoral margin sanctioned by the sycophantic mainstream media might have been, even with criminally racist voter suppression and every other imaginable type of cheating, these guys seem to think they can keep milking that "mandate" as an anti-reality charm. But despite effectively owning most of the mainstream media, they are apparently so paranoid as to have spawned a media prostitution racket in hopes of conning yet more easy marks needing help with their "heil bush" salutes.
On the off-chance you have not plumbed the latest "white" (!) house buffoonery (accounts of your extra-galaxy trip appreciated), a few leads:
Media Matters
Olbermann
Frank Rich at NYT: "The White House Stages Its 'Daily Show'"
Okay. I don't know about you, but with this sort of late-1930's-austria zaniness in play, I seek reassurance that there still be Heroes. I'm not interested so much in close-fitting primary-colored tights or deus-ex-machina trickery. But some magic in the way of courage and that shibboleth of talking truth to power would be nice. For starters, the aforementioned Ritter seems a good one to put up in a joust with the pathetic little talonless G-man.
Dahr Jamail appears to be another remarkable soul, somehow performing acts of independent non-embedded journalism inside Iraq. It's easy to understand how he might be more concerned about the risk from our military than the Iraqi resistance. But forget the subtleties - ponder for a mo what it would take to get you on a plane to Baghdad next week.
I am also nominating for the Hero category oneWard Churchill. This guy has stuck his finger in a lot of eyes recently. Clearly he is not one to fret over being pc, and as one genetically prone to overdo pc-ness, that is refreshing. Some of Churchill's hyperbole and rhetorical flourishes disturb and offend me of course, but a truly moral, ethical person cannot imho simply discount the unpleasant truth and reality behind his words. Our nation has commonly pursued policies amounting to terrorism and war-crimes against countless smaller nations for decades. Most recently our unprovoked invasion of Iraq has involved routine, cavalier use of monstrously destructive munitions in situations where extensive civilian casualties are inevitable and the strategic goal is marginal at best. We can mourn the results of retribution, but we dare not pretend it is unprovoked. The downtrodden inevitably produce Heroes too.
Stand or fall I know there
Shall be peace in the valley
And it’s all an affair
Of my life with the heroes and villains
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