Sunday, March 12, 2006
Adding to the Dead to Me List
So the Chicago Tribune had a truly disgusting article on the font page, an “investigative” piece of journalism written by one John Crewdson, a piece I won’t bother to refute point-by-point because the Chicago Tribune is dead to me.
But let this one be for the record: if a newspaper has a bias on its editorial page that bias will leak into its “news” reporting. Just look at page 18 of the Tribune. Trusting a newspaper with a biased editorial page to give you honest reporting is like trusting Claude Allen with your domestic strategy when you already know he’s a thief. One thing affects the other. You can’t get a job as a security guard when you have a felony record.
But no real surprise, das right is barely paying attention.
One sad effect of being so far out of the mainstream is that John Conyers and Russ Feingold look like lunatics when they advocate the truth and defend the law and the Constitution. Feingold floats a resolution everyone knows will never pass, just because it’s what should pass, because, even though everyone already knows it, Feingold doesn’t want senators to be able to claim ignorance. He wants them on the record as voting against even censuring the president.
Fuckin’ a, Russ. Give ‘em Hell.
John Conyers floats the same kind of unhinged bills with almost no support in the House and he looks like Don Quixote when all he is calling for is an investigation into the lawbreaking of George Bush that the rest of the world already knows about.
John Conyers may look bizarre in the U.S. Congress, but, sadly enough, it is the U.S. Congress that looks ridiculous in the context of the World and the truth. The United States is barely more popular than Iran in public opinion polls across the world. France and Poland enjoy a better reputation. No western nation has a congress and a president that are considered more dishonest and dangerous.
But that’s an ad populum argument, and I know it. The problem is that the evidence is out there for everyone to see, and they still don’t. They aren’t paying attention as their government is run by a fascist junta. They don’t even know who Valerie Plame is. And they get information from FOX News like it’s just some new version of ABC.
FOX News is not and never will be NBC, and the Senate of Bill Frist is not and never will be an honest and responsible organ of government. There’s a difference, meatheads, and ignorance can’t change reality.
While I won’t blame the victim, I get tired of the American people complaining about how crooked politicians are and then proceeding to ignore politics as the politicians rape the government. Make an effort, for fuck’s sake! I can’t vote for you!
Because when naked criminality goes unpunished, you get this. Fristy is your leader now, eh? Is that all you got? Should we be surprised when you nominated George W. Bush to the presidency twice? Bill “She Does Respond” Frist is your guy?
Or how about John McCain. Poor, pasty John has been a bitch of the Far Right for so long he can’t feel James Dobson’s collar anymore. He forgot South Carolina a week after it happened and spent the next six years on the dick of the guy who raped him.
Anybody else, Republicans? Any other lying, criminal slaves of the Reverends or whipped moderates you want to float? Should I care, considering your entire party is dead to me?
I’m on a roll today, you should know.
Another thing I tire of is corporate media outlets covering the president’s illegal wiretapping like it’s a debatable issue, giving equal or more than equal weight to the administration’s defense, and then concluding the article with a rhetorical “oh well,” like this Christian Science Monitor article, emphasizing that punishment for breaking the law isn’t “appropriate.”
Just for this one article, Christian Science Monitor, you are dead to me. Take your faith healing and voodoo witchdoctor cult and get the fuck out.
But let this one be for the record: if a newspaper has a bias on its editorial page that bias will leak into its “news” reporting. Just look at page 18 of the Tribune. Trusting a newspaper with a biased editorial page to give you honest reporting is like trusting Claude Allen with your domestic strategy when you already know he’s a thief. One thing affects the other. You can’t get a job as a security guard when you have a felony record.
But no real surprise, das right is barely paying attention.
One sad effect of being so far out of the mainstream is that John Conyers and Russ Feingold look like lunatics when they advocate the truth and defend the law and the Constitution. Feingold floats a resolution everyone knows will never pass, just because it’s what should pass, because, even though everyone already knows it, Feingold doesn’t want senators to be able to claim ignorance. He wants them on the record as voting against even censuring the president.
Fuckin’ a, Russ. Give ‘em Hell.
John Conyers floats the same kind of unhinged bills with almost no support in the House and he looks like Don Quixote when all he is calling for is an investigation into the lawbreaking of George Bush that the rest of the world already knows about.
John Conyers may look bizarre in the U.S. Congress, but, sadly enough, it is the U.S. Congress that looks ridiculous in the context of the World and the truth. The United States is barely more popular than Iran in public opinion polls across the world. France and Poland enjoy a better reputation. No western nation has a congress and a president that are considered more dishonest and dangerous.
But that’s an ad populum argument, and I know it. The problem is that the evidence is out there for everyone to see, and they still don’t. They aren’t paying attention as their government is run by a fascist junta. They don’t even know who Valerie Plame is. And they get information from FOX News like it’s just some new version of ABC.
FOX News is not and never will be NBC, and the Senate of Bill Frist is not and never will be an honest and responsible organ of government. There’s a difference, meatheads, and ignorance can’t change reality.
While I won’t blame the victim, I get tired of the American people complaining about how crooked politicians are and then proceeding to ignore politics as the politicians rape the government. Make an effort, for fuck’s sake! I can’t vote for you!
Because when naked criminality goes unpunished, you get this. Fristy is your leader now, eh? Is that all you got? Should we be surprised when you nominated George W. Bush to the presidency twice? Bill “She Does Respond” Frist is your guy?
Or how about John McCain. Poor, pasty John has been a bitch of the Far Right for so long he can’t feel James Dobson’s collar anymore. He forgot South Carolina a week after it happened and spent the next six years on the dick of the guy who raped him.
Anybody else, Republicans? Any other lying, criminal slaves of the Reverends or whipped moderates you want to float? Should I care, considering your entire party is dead to me?
I’m on a roll today, you should know.
Another thing I tire of is corporate media outlets covering the president’s illegal wiretapping like it’s a debatable issue, giving equal or more than equal weight to the administration’s defense, and then concluding the article with a rhetorical “oh well,” like this Christian Science Monitor article, emphasizing that punishment for breaking the law isn’t “appropriate.”
Just for this one article, Christian Science Monitor, you are dead to me. Take your faith healing and voodoo witchdoctor cult and get the fuck out.
# posted by BitterHarvest @ 12:43 PM 
