Back to the Shadows Again
What shall we call 'em - "non-media"? "un-media"? "a-media"? The terminology seems tougher than the concept. It's those print and network organizations that tend to use "news" in their name and claim a role in informing the citizenry and are now owned by a handful of folks who are probably all only one-half degree of separation apart if they aren't actually inseminating each other. Anyone interested in reality of course long ago turned to alternative resources.
I'm still fully agog over the un-response of the - to pick one - un-media to the future-award-winning Colbert special that the bushes were suckered into attending on pretext it was to honor their dandy relations with the un-media. The Colbert tour-de-force is resonating big-time out here where the real news battles of consequence occur these days.
For the rare reader who might actually relate to subject: isn't it interesting that today "you can pee right into the stream" has lost all of its resonance?! These days you need a danged filter to drink out of the stream due to all the prior peeing!
Come to think of it (okay, this is all Firesign Theater, coming clean for those of you wondering which weeds [none!] I've got going), "Out where an Injun's your friend" has a whole new resonance in this Abramoff era too.
Semi-reluctantly moving on, I was very pleased to run across this post strongly reaffirming that it is way too early to be making allowances for the war-crime-addicted administration that has given few signs yet that they realize they are truly in a fight for more than their reputations. Thinking
folks know those reputations will be in perpetuity rejected by any Smart Toilet. This is not a time for making nice, the sick zeitgeist of that silly affair last Saturday night. This thug who was thrust upon us would have no truck with the Marquis of Queensberry rules, for the love of god! There should be no slack cut for the criminal gang occupying that fortress painted white. As you can see, I've got alternative housing all lined up.
Jane Smiley is my muse here, and I couldn't be happier. Piss (and vinegar) is almost a leitmotif tonight!
Imagine my dismay and disgust when I got back from the LA Book Festival and discovered what had happened at the Correspondents' Dinner in Washington on Saturday. The press, such as it is, actually sat down and broke bread with George W. Bush and laughed at his jokes! After I sent my thank you note to the star of the evening, Stephen Colbert, I caught up on what else happened while I was away from my computer.
One thing was that a Boston Globe reporter uncovered the fact that George
W. Bush has declared himself unfettered by more than seven hundred and fifty laws that have been passed by Congress and he himself has signed, and in addition, that the administration's foolish, blind, and deceptive progress toward the stupidest and most evil action a sane person can conceive, bombing Iran with bunker busting nuclear weapons, starting another criminal war, continues.
People, including something like 68% of the American people, wonder why George W. Bush continues to pursue policies that 1) damage America 2) are highly unpopular 3) are misguided and 4) are against both international and US law. How about this for a reason--no matter what he does, the journalists who are supposed to hold him to account are breaking bread with him and laughing at his jokes? What does it mean to the man if his polling numbers are in the basement and and most of the nation looks favorably on impeachment if when he goes out of his bubble, he gets a goodly hit of sucking up? How is he supposed to actually comprehend that he is on the wrong track, that he has put the nation on the wrong track, that he needs to reform and change his ways, if no one makes sure that he feels social opprobrium for what he has done?
Make no mistake about it--George W. Bush has a thick thick skull. He finds it very difficult to learn anything. But he is thin-skinned and easily offended. It is time to offend him! He needs to be offended every minute of every day! Stephen Colbert did a pretty good job, but then all the kids on the playground rallied around the bully and soothed his hurt feelings. No No No! Don't these people know what a collaborator is? A collaborator isn't merely the guy who pulled the trigger with the perpetrator, it is also the guy (and the gal) who made him feel comfortable and happy, just one of the gang, when he was getting ready to pull the trigger. Why show George W. Bush any mercy? He hasn't apologized for the crimes he's already committed and he proposes to commit more! He is preparing and intending to commit more!
Even if he doesn't bomb Iran, he is certainly planning to break a lot of American laws and be brazen about it. Come to me in five years, after he's been impeached and imprisoned and humiliated by history, and ask me if I will forgive him. Maybe I will. But right now, when he can still be encouraged to persist in his inhumane, cruel, and entirely idiotic policies, policies that, as I've mentioned before, have caused pointless deaths, dismemberments, blindings, woundings, orphanings, widowings, parents bereft of their children, homelessness, impoverishment, infrastructure destruction, sectarian hatred and violence, scandalous waste of money and resources, profoundly corrupt government in both Washington and Baghdad, crippling of our army? Right now? No mercy. Those who don't try to make Bush feel shame bring shame upon themselves.
I'm still fully agog over the un-response of the - to pick one - un-media to the future-award-winning Colbert special that the bushes were suckered into attending on pretext it was to honor their dandy relations with the un-media. The Colbert tour-de-force is resonating big-time out here where the real news battles of consequence occur these days.
For the rare reader who might actually relate to subject: isn't it interesting that today "you can pee right into the stream" has lost all of its resonance?! These days you need a danged filter to drink out of the stream due to all the prior peeing!
Come to think of it (okay, this is all Firesign Theater, coming clean for those of you wondering which weeds [none!] I've got going), "Out where an Injun's your friend" has a whole new resonance in this Abramoff era too.
Semi-reluctantly moving on, I was very pleased to run across this post strongly reaffirming that it is way too early to be making allowances for the war-crime-addicted administration that has given few signs yet that they realize they are truly in a fight for more than their reputations. Thinking
folks know those reputations will be in perpetuity rejected by any Smart Toilet. This is not a time for making nice, the sick zeitgeist of that silly affair last Saturday night. This thug who was thrust upon us would have no truck with the Marquis of Queensberry rules, for the love of god! There should be no slack cut for the criminal gang occupying that fortress painted white. As you can see, I've got alternative housing all lined up.Jane Smiley is my muse here, and I couldn't be happier. Piss (and vinegar) is almost a leitmotif tonight!
Imagine my dismay and disgust when I got back from the LA Book Festival and discovered what had happened at the Correspondents' Dinner in Washington on Saturday. The press, such as it is, actually sat down and broke bread with George W. Bush and laughed at his jokes! After I sent my thank you note to the star of the evening, Stephen Colbert, I caught up on what else happened while I was away from my computer.
One thing was that a Boston Globe reporter uncovered the fact that George
W. Bush has declared himself unfettered by more than seven hundred and fifty laws that have been passed by Congress and he himself has signed, and in addition, that the administration's foolish, blind, and deceptive progress toward the stupidest and most evil action a sane person can conceive, bombing Iran with bunker busting nuclear weapons, starting another criminal war, continues.
People, including something like 68% of the American people, wonder why George W. Bush continues to pursue policies that 1) damage America 2) are highly unpopular 3) are misguided and 4) are against both international and US law. How about this for a reason--no matter what he does, the journalists who are supposed to hold him to account are breaking bread with him and laughing at his jokes? What does it mean to the man if his polling numbers are in the basement and and most of the nation looks favorably on impeachment if when he goes out of his bubble, he gets a goodly hit of sucking up? How is he supposed to actually comprehend that he is on the wrong track, that he has put the nation on the wrong track, that he needs to reform and change his ways, if no one makes sure that he feels social opprobrium for what he has done?
Make no mistake about it--George W. Bush has a thick thick skull. He finds it very difficult to learn anything. But he is thin-skinned and easily offended. It is time to offend him! He needs to be offended every minute of every day! Stephen Colbert did a pretty good job, but then all the kids on the playground rallied around the bully and soothed his hurt feelings. No No No! Don't these people know what a collaborator is? A collaborator isn't merely the guy who pulled the trigger with the perpetrator, it is also the guy (and the gal) who made him feel comfortable and happy, just one of the gang, when he was getting ready to pull the trigger. Why show George W. Bush any mercy? He hasn't apologized for the crimes he's already committed and he proposes to commit more! He is preparing and intending to commit more!
Even if he doesn't bomb Iran, he is certainly planning to break a lot of American laws and be brazen about it. Come to me in five years, after he's been impeached and imprisoned and humiliated by history, and ask me if I will forgive him. Maybe I will. But right now, when he can still be encouraged to persist in his inhumane, cruel, and entirely idiotic policies, policies that, as I've mentioned before, have caused pointless deaths, dismemberments, blindings, woundings, orphanings, widowings, parents bereft of their children, homelessness, impoverishment, infrastructure destruction, sectarian hatred and violence, scandalous waste of money and resources, profoundly corrupt government in both Washington and Baghdad, crippling of our army? Right now? No mercy. Those who don't try to make Bush feel shame bring shame upon themselves.
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