Outrage of the Week
Check out everything that happened this week:
OK - so the Vice President shot somebody - it was a hunting accident - the victim even feels sorry for the VP. Hey Ted Kennedy got somebody killed. And Clinton got blowjobs in the Oval Office (not that there's anything wrong with that). Its' amazing how all of the Dems pranced with glee about this story (I've been lurking on your blogs). and the press had a field day. "Why didn't you report this earlier" demanded one White House scribe. Man, if I shot somebody I'm not going on Larry King to tell everyone about it. How stupid is that? And then Hillary goes - "well that's how this White House obfuscates info" - hey Hill - what about your White House girl? Get under the table.
But it has provided a good deal of somewhat gallows humour - "I'd rather be hunting with Dick Cheney than driving with Ted Kennedy". Glad we could drag his ass in with this. And even this GOP'er could not believe the news as I was laying in bed sunday night watching Grey's An
atomy and right after the suspenseful pulling the bomb out of the chest cavity scene - set to the that great Anna Nalick tune - and whatshername walks out in the hall to see the entire bomb squad blow up - the TV all of a sudden breaks for commercial and the headline is "VP Cheney shoots somebody" -what a juxtoposition! Well both Deborah and I sort of laughed out loud as I said "man can you guys just keep it in your pants?" sheesh - can you fucking keep it together - I cannot contain the great liberal hoarde with this type of bullshit!I do like the tune "Cheney's Got a Gun" set to the Aerosmith song though.
Arabs riot over Danish Cartoons. Does everybody now get it that you really can't sit down and talk to these people? That we ARE in a war with radical Islam? That it does threaten our way of life and commonly held civil liberties? Do you friggin' get it now?When 9/11 happened the common response was "why do they hate us?" And then it morphed to "well WE must have done something wrong" (the great liberal mantra - well if somthing happened it must have been because of us). No we didn't do anything wrong - we helped build their infrastructure, but they cannot build a decent economy for themselves. And they are not really free. So they have alot of time to obsess on nothing and that's why they have nothing better to do but kill each other. Get it?
The Olympics suck. And I'm a big sports fan. When did snow boarding become the biggest Olympic sport - it sucks. I'll have a rant on that later.
And then many on blogs thought Michelle Kwan shouldn't have even got into the Olympics (because some are serious deranged serial conspiracy theorists) and could not even give the girl her due in the very gracious way she bowed out of the Olympics in plenty of time for her alternate. I don't understand why some cannot even see class when its plainly sitting in front of you.
Kelly Clarkson wins two Grammies and performs for the fans in Turin. She gets continually blasted for not thanking American Idol - this is the constant theme in all stories about her the past two weeks. American Idol did not do her latest record - she fired their management and did her own thing with real rock and roll people and you see the results. Why should she have to thank those hacks - and why is that the story line? Report on how her album surprised everybody and the critics themselves. Its a great story.Bad Media. But you won't here about in the mainstream because they are too busy overreacting to other stuff. More worried about "when" something happened" as opposed to "what " happened as to "how" something might happen.
People - just be careful of what one reads or hears - its being spun for one reason or another and that's too bad - whether its for ratings or its a slow news day - and in th end they are plain lazy. And for that - I am officially outraged.
posted by Rock at 7:06 PM
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Thank you WG - you pretty much made my point.
Word Girl's comments pretty much support what I wanted to say - which is if anybody had a problem about the current administration (and that is fine if you do - frankly my comments wre not inf act "partisan") they would escalate this huniting accident to its full bore (no pun intended). And frankly on many jornalistic blogs it was well noted that the HYSTERIA provided by this incident wa defintely poltically motivated - and that is no surpise. My comments are in the fact that it is SO obvious. And Word Girl makes it plain by complaining about a $7 dollar license like its the biggest deal in town. It's not - and that is so stupid.
I'm not here to argue the facts to but to argue the media play. Last Tuesday the local news blared "Cheney hunted illegaly" Like that makes a fucking difference to the guy he shot .. I mean please get over it - all of this is a lazy media arc that i9s not responding to an ethic of substantiality.
I am not here trying to defend Cheney - I am just pointing out the absurdity of the press. I for a fact to not even like the man on many levels becasue when he was head of Halliburtin he prettymuch got reind of my entier Major Civil Projecst grouo on the suggestins of two Arthuyr Ander son guys whoi rose in the ranks ther - see the parallesll withy the stroy belown. On there stupid suggestion he movesd the comopany more on energy wat the same time getting rid of the construciot grouo right befeor a big pus h nation wid on construciotn. He , if anyboidn, caused me to uproot from Tecas and move here to Salifonienrlk. I;m noit sure whte to thanke him or not but I do know he cauost me onetuy -
You know this blogger stuff can get you some days - I was typing in a freeflow with all thoughts of just going back and editing and what you see in the priar post is a bunch of gibberish which is somewhat embarassing - but so be it. It somehow posted without me realizing it.
The point is Dick Cheney was head of an organisation (Haliburton)that eliminated my whole group and basically led me from Texas to California - and while that was traumatic and stupid (because they got rid of a civil group to emphasize energy and not construction right before a great construction boom )- I don't know whether to thank him or not.
So I am NOT a partisan in that effect.
Yes - that's Rock, from the great state of Salifonienrlk.
Why is it that sometimes there is word verification stuff and sometimes there is not? Sometimes I have to solve Rubik's cube to post a comment and then when its so easy I now got Bizarro speak floating out on the internet?
Well, they did not say that Cheney slipped and shot his friend. He pointed at a bird, but shot his friend which is probably about 45 degrees worth of difference. He just does not seem like the type of person who would be drinking. Maybe, something is wrong with Cheney.
What I did not like is that it was none of the country's or the media's business. you have to consider his feelings. It must be quite a shocking horrible feeling to accidently shoot your friend.
Here's some comments from a Muslim reformist whom I read about recently in The New York Times on March 11th.
I believe our people are hostages to our own beliefs and teachings.
Knowledge has released me from this backward thinking. Somebody has to help free the Muslim people from these wrong beliefs.
The Jews have come from the tragedy [Holocaust] and forced the world to respect them, with their knowledge, not with their terror; with their work, not with their crying and yelling.
We have not seen a single Jew blow himself up in a German restaurant. We have not seen a single Jew destroy a church. We have not seen a single Jew protest by killing people.
Why does a young Muslim man, in the prime of life, with a full life ahead, go and blow himself up?
The clash we are witnessing around the world is not a clash of religions or a clash of civilizations," Dr. Sultan said. "It is a clash between two opposites, between two eras. It is a clash between a mentality that belongs to the Middle Ages and another mentality that belongs to the 21st century. It is a clash between civilization and backwardness, between the civilized and the primitive, between barbarity and rationality.
Dr. Wafa Sultan
Of course they are threatening to kill her now.
I think the Olympics meant more when they occured every four years. It meant more when our athletes were amateurs. Wasn't there a time when athletes did not have corporate logos stitched from head to toe?
Yes, Ms. Kwan does have class, and I can appreciate how much it meant for her to be in the Olympics. Athletes of that calibre compete at a level and at locales that 99.9% of us will never experience.
However, being a Long Islander, I feel that Michele should have been gracious enough to accept her physical limitations, and not push Emily Hughes off the roster in the first place.
And no, of course there is no conspiracy. How Michelle Kwan approached the Olympic Committee is an accepted practice from what I understood from the media.
Why Dan - I appreciate your measured comments very much. Well said. Thanks for visitng the dark side.
The dark side?
Anyway, I disagree with wordgirl. Just because the guy was a campaign contributer does not mean he could not be Cheney's friend. You can make friends with all sorts of people that come into contact with you.
Two elderly guys tramping around in the woods all day does not sound like the way to be nice to a contributer especially a major one.
I would think that a contributer would be more concerned with a favor or a change in policy.
Even if Cheney's primary concern was to placate a contributer. It's still a contributer that he is closer to, than other contributers.
Again, a friend.
Bad Media
That's why you have to read a variety of sources, and especially stay away from making the electronic headlines offered at the search engines as your primary source.
It's amazing that as different as The New York Sun and The New York Times are from each other. Neither one of them ran an article about reductions in the New York City budget that will happens in about six months. A coworker found that news in a professional journal.
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