If there is anything to learn from this week's news story about Shirley Sherrod getting fired from the USDA because of a completely made-up story broadcast by FoKKK's Noise it is this...Democrats (and the NAACP) have no spines.
The heavily-edited video clip given to Fixed Noize by right-wing hack and serial-liar Andy Breitbart, rather than offering proof of the NAACP's, and by default (because, you know, he's black), the Obama administration's tacit approval of reverse racism, actually shows that this administration has a complete and total lack of spine when it comes to fighting back against the right-wing noise machine.
Rather than looking more deeply into what the whole story was, the WH decided that Shirley Sherrod was guilty of discriminating against whites (24 years ago) and she should be asked to resign (that's gummint speak for 'fired') immediately. According to Shirley she was travelling by car when she was contacted by her superior at the USDA and told to pull off the road and resign via her Blackberry.
Now here we are just one day later, and it turns out that the truth is completely the opposite of what we were led to believe. The complete video of Shirley Sherrod's speech shows that rather than being a racist that discriminated against poor white folks, she used her life experiences to help the poor and disadvantaged regardless of the colour of their skin. This little nugget was deliberately over-looked by the white-sheet wearing bastards at Fixed Noizze and their cross-burning messenger Breitbart. Because it suited their own agendas, these despicable, under-handed reptiles destroyed the career and reputation of a hard-working government employee, all for a blatant, vicious, (and hopefully) libelous lie.
But that's not who I am royally steamed at. You see, I expect those hacks to behave that way. I expect them to pervert, twist and mis-represent the truth, afterall, that's their job. Getting mad at those douche-nozzles for this behaviour would make as much sense as trying to stop Sarah Palin from being a brain-dead, vapid, political opportunist. Some things just are, you know?
No, the people that really fry my frijoles in this mess are the WH and the NAACP.
These folks I expected much more from, and their reactions to this story are maddening beyond belief. The spineless, gutless, scared little creatures in this administration that cower like beaten dogs every single time the right-wing noise machine belches, and the knee-jerk reactionaries at the NAACP, fresh from their recent victory over the racist Teabaggers, were now all too eager to dump one of their own, in case the label of 'racist' boomerang back on them. The speed with which this towering act of cowardice occurred was spell-binding. No-one thought that something might be wrong with this story bearing in mind who was pushing it, no-one thought to fact-check it. No-one thought to find out where the rest of the video was. Nope. They just took it at face value and fired her ass inside of 24 hours.
So, here we are another 24 hours later, and the whole video has now come out. Shirley Sherrod it turns out, isn't a racist, Breitbart and Fukked Noizze still are, and the WH and the NAACP look like scared little children, afraid of the dark. Whether that was the intention all along, to show to the world at large that the WH is a 'Nad-Free' Zone, or not, the inescapable fact is that the people that look like complete arseholes in this situation are not the racist skidmarks that destroyed Shirley Sherrod's career for shits and grins, but rather the spineless dipshits in the administration that folded like cheap deck-chairs in a stiff breeze.
With friends like that, who needs enemies?
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Friday, July 16, 2010
On Selective Memory (or why the GOP are completely batshit crazy)
I almost made it to the weekend without having another rant over-take me and drag me kicking and screaming to my netbook to bash out another cyber-yell about something or other. But then as I was perusing the news networks websites (and I use the word "news" hesitantly) this evening I saw a lead piece on CNN.com about how the GOP is taking offense to the First Family going on a vacation in Maine next week.
You see, according to the GOP (the initials used to mean Grand Old Party, I prefer the modern designation, Geriatric Old Perverts) the situation in the Gulf of Mexico is at such a crucial stage that the President really should just stay at the Whitehouse and monitor the situation from there as opposed to Maine where, apparently, there are no phones, televisions, fax machines or broadband internet hook-ups for him to use. Intelligent people, like me and the 3 other people that read this blog, realize straight away that this is merely an attempt to make the President look like a shirker. A guy that is more interested in taking time off, rather than putting in a full day at the office. And that is where my head explodes just a little bit.
First off, if the situation in the Gulf of Mexico as BP tries to stem the flow of oil from the sea floor is that critical, if it were to go all pear-shaped, just what the fuck is he supposed to do about it from the Oval Office? Use mind-control? Pray? Bust out his cape with the big 'O' on the back and go and personally plug the hole? The obvious answer is of course, nothing. There is nothing that he could do from the Oval Office that he couldn't do from Maine, but that basic point of logic escapes the nimble minds of the message shapers at 'talking-point central' at the GOP.
Secondly, and this is the part that really frosts my nads, the idea that the GOP would even think it was a remotely good idea to criticise the current occupant's number of vacation days after the nearly three years that Dumbya bush spent "out of the office" just boggles the mind. Think about this for a second. Bush was in office for 8 years but he spent fully 1/3 of that time either at (or going to) his pig farm in Texass (490 days) or Camp David (487 days). As of this weekend the current occupant of the Whitehouse (and interestingly the only one that was actually legally elected to that position this century) has taken a grand total of 65 days at or going to vacation.
So yeah GOP attack-dogs, lets use that as a platform to try and score some points.
You see, according to the GOP (the initials used to mean Grand Old Party, I prefer the modern designation, Geriatric Old Perverts) the situation in the Gulf of Mexico is at such a crucial stage that the President really should just stay at the Whitehouse and monitor the situation from there as opposed to Maine where, apparently, there are no phones, televisions, fax machines or broadband internet hook-ups for him to use. Intelligent people, like me and the 3 other people that read this blog, realize straight away that this is merely an attempt to make the President look like a shirker. A guy that is more interested in taking time off, rather than putting in a full day at the office. And that is where my head explodes just a little bit.
First off, if the situation in the Gulf of Mexico as BP tries to stem the flow of oil from the sea floor is that critical, if it were to go all pear-shaped, just what the fuck is he supposed to do about it from the Oval Office? Use mind-control? Pray? Bust out his cape with the big 'O' on the back and go and personally plug the hole? The obvious answer is of course, nothing. There is nothing that he could do from the Oval Office that he couldn't do from Maine, but that basic point of logic escapes the nimble minds of the message shapers at 'talking-point central' at the GOP.
Secondly, and this is the part that really frosts my nads, the idea that the GOP would even think it was a remotely good idea to criticise the current occupant's number of vacation days after the nearly three years that Dumbya bush spent "out of the office" just boggles the mind. Think about this for a second. Bush was in office for 8 years but he spent fully 1/3 of that time either at (or going to) his pig farm in Texass (490 days) or Camp David (487 days). As of this weekend the current occupant of the Whitehouse (and interestingly the only one that was actually legally elected to that position this century) has taken a grand total of 65 days at or going to vacation.
So yeah GOP attack-dogs, lets use that as a platform to try and score some points.
Monday, July 12, 2010
Proof that republicans hate the poor (or why Senator Kyl is a hypocritical asshole).
If one actually needed further proof that the republican party is beholden only to the rich and powerful and thinks that the poor and disadvantaged should just go fuck themselves, one need go no further than Arizona's other senile white git in the Senate, John Kyl.
This past sunday, on a television show on the Pravda network (you figure it out), with live cameras and microphones, in a studio, with really bright lights on, (and one bright red one, so he must have known it was being recorded), this tone-deaf fucker-over of the poor and recently born-again deficit hawk said (and I am 99% certain he wasn't drunk at the time and 100% certain he wasn't stoned) that congress should extend bush's tax-gifts to the rich, REGARDLESS OF THEIR IMPACT ON THE DEFICIT.
Now, in case you weren't aware, at a time when 10% of the U.S. workforce is unemployed, and Dog-Knows how many are under-employed, Senator Kyl and his disgusting bunch of morally-bankrupt fat-cat toadies in the Senate are still refusing to extend expiring unemployment benefits unless there are budget cuts elsewhere to offset the additional funds needed...but, this miserly bastard and his porcine pals agree, the rich should keep getting their tax-gifts, regardless of what it does to the budget or the deficit.
I would ordinarily be purple with rage at this sort of comment. I would ordinarily be ranting and raving about how this over-privileged rat-fuck sonofagoat wouldn't know the hardship being faced by the chronically unemployed if it came up and kicked him in the nads. I would ordinarily be screaming like a madman about just how fucked in the head he and all of his kind are. (In other words I would be getting ready to give myself a coronary). But instead of bursting blood vessels and steam issuing forth from my ear canals, I am stuck with another, completely different emotion.
I am gob-smacked. Well and truly gob-smacked.
Totally by accident, a republican has finally come clean and told us exactly what their party stands for. As plain as day. In simple, straight forward terms. When it comes to tax-gifts to the wealthy it's 'Fuck the deficit'...but when it comes to the poor they won't even get a stale crust unless the impact to the deficit is zero.
The GOP. The party of the rich, for the rich, by the rich.
Senator Kyl accidentally wrote every single Democrat's 2010 election ads for them. "Hi, I'm a republican, and unless you're rich, you are on your fucking own."
Priceless!
Oh, and I don't care how pissed you might be at the Democrats for caving to the bullies on the right all the damn time (and let me tell you I am mighty, MIGHTY pissed) and I don't care how mad you are that President Obama isn't as liberal or progressive as you hoped he would be (newsflash - he ain't) I know one thing for sure, neither one of them would have fucked you over as hard and as long as the republican party has done to it's toothless, white, male, race-baiting, homophobic base.
Seriously, if ANYONE votes for a republican candidate this fall that does not make at least $1,000,000 a year they need their fucking heads examined, and yes, stupid, broke, redneck Southern States, I am talking to you...
This past sunday, on a television show on the Pravda network (you figure it out), with live cameras and microphones, in a studio, with really bright lights on, (and one bright red one, so he must have known it was being recorded), this tone-deaf fucker-over of the poor and recently born-again deficit hawk said (and I am 99% certain he wasn't drunk at the time and 100% certain he wasn't stoned) that congress should extend bush's tax-gifts to the rich, REGARDLESS OF THEIR IMPACT ON THE DEFICIT.
Now, in case you weren't aware, at a time when 10% of the U.S. workforce is unemployed, and Dog-Knows how many are under-employed, Senator Kyl and his disgusting bunch of morally-bankrupt fat-cat toadies in the Senate are still refusing to extend expiring unemployment benefits unless there are budget cuts elsewhere to offset the additional funds needed...but, this miserly bastard and his porcine pals agree, the rich should keep getting their tax-gifts, regardless of what it does to the budget or the deficit.
I would ordinarily be purple with rage at this sort of comment. I would ordinarily be ranting and raving about how this over-privileged rat-fuck sonofagoat wouldn't know the hardship being faced by the chronically unemployed if it came up and kicked him in the nads. I would ordinarily be screaming like a madman about just how fucked in the head he and all of his kind are. (In other words I would be getting ready to give myself a coronary). But instead of bursting blood vessels and steam issuing forth from my ear canals, I am stuck with another, completely different emotion.
I am gob-smacked. Well and truly gob-smacked.
Totally by accident, a republican has finally come clean and told us exactly what their party stands for. As plain as day. In simple, straight forward terms. When it comes to tax-gifts to the wealthy it's 'Fuck the deficit'...but when it comes to the poor they won't even get a stale crust unless the impact to the deficit is zero.
The GOP. The party of the rich, for the rich, by the rich.
Senator Kyl accidentally wrote every single Democrat's 2010 election ads for them. "Hi, I'm a republican, and unless you're rich, you are on your fucking own."
Priceless!
Oh, and I don't care how pissed you might be at the Democrats for caving to the bullies on the right all the damn time (and let me tell you I am mighty, MIGHTY pissed) and I don't care how mad you are that President Obama isn't as liberal or progressive as you hoped he would be (newsflash - he ain't) I know one thing for sure, neither one of them would have fucked you over as hard and as long as the republican party has done to it's toothless, white, male, race-baiting, homophobic base.
Seriously, if ANYONE votes for a republican candidate this fall that does not make at least $1,000,000 a year they need their fucking heads examined, and yes, stupid, broke, redneck Southern States, I am talking to you...
Friday, July 9, 2010
Climate change is bullshit, eh? (Faux Spews & other reich-wing nay-sayers silent as Eastern U.S. melts..)
As you may have noticed the presstitutes in the M$M continue with their theme that apparently nothing ever happens in the United States UNLESS it happens on the East Coast.
During a rather nasty winter storm here in the Mid-West this past year, when thousands of Illinois residents were without power, and schools and government offices were shut-down etc etc, there was nary so much as a fart about it in the M$M...but lo and behold two days later when that very same storm finally made it's presence felt in NYC, all of a sudden it was "the Storm of the century" and "East-Coast Killer Blizzards" along with the requisite threatening background music and somber looking telly hosts on the idiot's lantern..After yelling myself hoarse at the screen that they were all a bunch of soft-nosed east-coast pansies and they needed to sack up, I slowly became aware of the braying from the far-right climate-change deniers on Fuked Noizze Channel. They were yapping about how stupid Al Gore was beginning to look as the East Coast descended into a snowy, white oblivion. My blood-pressure sky-rocketed as I thought about the millions of stupid knuckle-dragging morons that use that broadcast beam of unfiltered right-wing propagandized filth as an actual source of information, and the damage that stupid, uneducated comments like that could do to the whole environmental issue. But then I slowly started to smile as I remembered that one day soon it would be summer, and then it would get hot..very hot..and the climate change deniers would be silenced as all of their pasty-faced, enormously rotund viewers would gradually begin to melt as the heat got too much in their trailers and their polyster-wearing behinds fused with their plastic couches and they slowly started to collapse and expire with heat exhaustion...
So I watched this week, admittedly with some amount of glee, as the M$M, with much earnestness, reported that the entire East Coast was apparently right on the verge of bursting into flames, killing anyone left that hadn't already either melted or spontaneously self-combusted, and I strained my ears and listened for the global climate change nay-sayer's taunts being retracting..and you know what I heard?
Nothing. Not a fucking thing. So according to these dirt-stupid arseholes in the M$M, and specifically that cesspit of misinformation, lies and lip-glossed airheads known as Fux Noizze Channel, when it snows in winter it proves Al Gore is a fucking moron, but when it hits triple digits day after day after day in NYC before we even hit July it's perfectly bloody normal.
And that, right there, is all you need to know about the media in this country.
They are ALL fucked in the head.
During a rather nasty winter storm here in the Mid-West this past year, when thousands of Illinois residents were without power, and schools and government offices were shut-down etc etc, there was nary so much as a fart about it in the M$M...but lo and behold two days later when that very same storm finally made it's presence felt in NYC, all of a sudden it was "the Storm of the century" and "East-Coast Killer Blizzards" along with the requisite threatening background music and somber looking telly hosts on the idiot's lantern..After yelling myself hoarse at the screen that they were all a bunch of soft-nosed east-coast pansies and they needed to sack up, I slowly became aware of the braying from the far-right climate-change deniers on Fuked Noizze Channel. They were yapping about how stupid Al Gore was beginning to look as the East Coast descended into a snowy, white oblivion. My blood-pressure sky-rocketed as I thought about the millions of stupid knuckle-dragging morons that use that broadcast beam of unfiltered right-wing propagandized filth as an actual source of information, and the damage that stupid, uneducated comments like that could do to the whole environmental issue. But then I slowly started to smile as I remembered that one day soon it would be summer, and then it would get hot..very hot..and the climate change deniers would be silenced as all of their pasty-faced, enormously rotund viewers would gradually begin to melt as the heat got too much in their trailers and their polyster-wearing behinds fused with their plastic couches and they slowly started to collapse and expire with heat exhaustion...
So I watched this week, admittedly with some amount of glee, as the M$M, with much earnestness, reported that the entire East Coast was apparently right on the verge of bursting into flames, killing anyone left that hadn't already either melted or spontaneously self-combusted, and I strained my ears and listened for the global climate change nay-sayer's taunts being retracting..and you know what I heard?
Nothing. Not a fucking thing. So according to these dirt-stupid arseholes in the M$M, and specifically that cesspit of misinformation, lies and lip-glossed airheads known as Fux Noizze Channel, when it snows in winter it proves Al Gore is a fucking moron, but when it hits triple digits day after day after day in NYC before we even hit July it's perfectly bloody normal.
And that, right there, is all you need to know about the media in this country.
They are ALL fucked in the head.
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Are you fucking kidding me? (or why the media in this country is completely fucking useless).
With BP continuing to kill the Gulf of Mexico barrel by barrel and the evil and cold-hearted bastards in the rethuglican party continuing to deny the extension of unemployment benefits to the chronically out-of-work, take a guess at what the lead stories are in the Main-Stream Media (M$M) here in 'Murkka?
Lindsay Lohan is (finally) going to jail and everyone's all a tizzy over where LeBron James will go next year to play basketball (and still not make the Finals).
Yup. I shit you not. A soon-to-be-behind-bars bleach-blonde "former" coke-tramp, who is finally going where any other normal offender (i.e. non-celebrity) would have gone the nano-second the guilty verdict was reached, and a tattooed basketball player's decision about which new team gets the privilege of paying him millions and millions of dollars per year despite the fact that the team he is currently on still hasn't won a title with him (and the same number without him), are the lead stories in the US media.
I honestly don't know whether to laugh or cry.
I could go on and on here about all of the other stories that perhaps should be considered to be just a wee-bit more important than this intellectual brain-candy like say, the hearings currently ongoing for the vacant spot on the Supreme Court, you know, an appointment that lasts a lifetime and has the potential to have a significant impact on how this country is run. Or, how BP is continuing to stall, delay and sometimes just flat-out deny access to data and information relating to just how badly they have fucked the southern coast of the U.S.
But no. That sort of news requires people to listen to big words, in long sentences with sometimes confusing concepts that don't directly impact their daily lives and are therefore tiresome and too much bother to really pay attention to. So instead we get this hybrid celebro-sport-tainment shit that is supposed to take the place of 'hard news' and keep the masses happy with the lurid details of fucked-up celebs and athletes private lives. Why? Maybe it's because their own lives are so utterly shallow, dull and uninteresting that the only way to stimulate the under-used organ in their cranial cavity is to live vicariously through these people they will never meet. Think about the number of people that openly wept when Princess Diana died. Why? Did they know her personally? Did she owe them money? Fuck no. But people felt like they knew her, and she them, because of the M$M, and so they wept, uncontrollably, over the death of a woman they'd never met.
And so here we are, hard news is deemed too hard to understand so it is marginalized and trivialized as being 'boring' and 'dull' and instead we get fluffy bullshit pieces about famously rich people doing whatever it is they do, and you know what? That is just what the ruling class wants. The M$M is merely producing what their masters are telling them to. As anyone who knows their history will tell you it's been done before. By another empire that thought it ruled the whole world too. But back then it was called 'Bread and Circuses', nowadays it's called "American Idol/Who wants to be a millionaire/Survivor/So you think you can dance" but it's aim is the same. Keep the masses dumb and happy and they won't notice you robbing them blind.
And judging by the most recent headlines in the US news media we are getting well and truly fucked.
Lindsay Lohan is (finally) going to jail and everyone's all a tizzy over where LeBron James will go next year to play basketball (and still not make the Finals).
Yup. I shit you not. A soon-to-be-behind-bars bleach-blonde "former" coke-tramp, who is finally going where any other normal offender (i.e. non-celebrity) would have gone the nano-second the guilty verdict was reached, and a tattooed basketball player's decision about which new team gets the privilege of paying him millions and millions of dollars per year despite the fact that the team he is currently on still hasn't won a title with him (and the same number without him), are the lead stories in the US media.
I honestly don't know whether to laugh or cry.
I could go on and on here about all of the other stories that perhaps should be considered to be just a wee-bit more important than this intellectual brain-candy like say, the hearings currently ongoing for the vacant spot on the Supreme Court, you know, an appointment that lasts a lifetime and has the potential to have a significant impact on how this country is run. Or, how BP is continuing to stall, delay and sometimes just flat-out deny access to data and information relating to just how badly they have fucked the southern coast of the U.S.
But no. That sort of news requires people to listen to big words, in long sentences with sometimes confusing concepts that don't directly impact their daily lives and are therefore tiresome and too much bother to really pay attention to. So instead we get this hybrid celebro-sport-tainment shit that is supposed to take the place of 'hard news' and keep the masses happy with the lurid details of fucked-up celebs and athletes private lives. Why? Maybe it's because their own lives are so utterly shallow, dull and uninteresting that the only way to stimulate the under-used organ in their cranial cavity is to live vicariously through these people they will never meet. Think about the number of people that openly wept when Princess Diana died. Why? Did they know her personally? Did she owe them money? Fuck no. But people felt like they knew her, and she them, because of the M$M, and so they wept, uncontrollably, over the death of a woman they'd never met.
And so here we are, hard news is deemed too hard to understand so it is marginalized and trivialized as being 'boring' and 'dull' and instead we get fluffy bullshit pieces about famously rich people doing whatever it is they do, and you know what? That is just what the ruling class wants. The M$M is merely producing what their masters are telling them to. As anyone who knows their history will tell you it's been done before. By another empire that thought it ruled the whole world too. But back then it was called 'Bread and Circuses', nowadays it's called "American Idol/Who wants to be a millionaire/Survivor/So you think you can dance" but it's aim is the same. Keep the masses dumb and happy and they won't notice you robbing them blind.
And judging by the most recent headlines in the US news media we are getting well and truly fucked.
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