I watched the hugely-attended rally yesterday from the Mall in D.C. and it looked like a real blast. The crowd size knocked Glenn Beck's religious revival meeting in the dirt, the music was great, the jokes were funny and the overall point was well made.
Well, sort of.
In a political season that has been more venomous and mean-spirited than I can ever remember (and bear in mind it has only been two years since McCain foisted his lip-stick wearing Alaskan pit bull on us all), one would think that at a rally that attracted northwards of 300,000 like-minded folks to come together and be heard, they would have come up with a better message. At least one that was better than what was in all essence, just another version of "can't we all just get along?" I mean really, I thought this was supposed to be a clarion call against the 24/7 news cycle of hate and fear-mongering that pollutes the airwaves, a sort of collective Howard Beale moment.
Apparently not.
Look, I understand that John Stewart and his network had to tread a very fine line between political parody and actually picking a political side, but when the premise of the whole rally is based on two shows that relentlessly take the piss out of the republican party and their right-wing media machine, you would have thought that a 'we're not taking anymore of this shit' message was pretty much a given. Instead we got a watered-down, almost generic, 'all-of-the-talking-heads-on-cable-are-as-bad-as-each-other' message that is both disingenuous and almost entirely incorrect. That's almost as intellectually dishonest as agreeing with the 'Liberal Media' myth. (Speaking of whom, the M$M not surprisingly, almost entirely boycotted the rally because, you know, it wasn't a "serious news event").
At the end of the day I'm not sure what anyone realistically expected to come out of the rally, other than a damn good time being had by all, and everyone being agreeable and nice to everyone else, but I do know this; three hundred thousand volunteers going door-to-door in a coordinated 'Get out the Vote' campaign might have been a hell of alot more productive in getting a positive result for the country come Tuesday night.
I sincerely hope I'm wrong about this, but in the end I think it was just pissing in the wind. We shall see.
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Dear republican 'economic expert' fuckwads...I know what you are up to...and so does the electorate..
Whilst you climb up on your high-horses and talk about 'government spending gone mad' regarding the economic stimulus implemented by President Obama (which, by the way, recent figures show has actually worked) and how once you seize power this fall all of that will end, the electorate is finally beginning to cotton on. You see, whilst it sounds great in the 30 second ads your corporate owners play endlessly on the idiot's lantern this election season, we know that you're completely full of shit. Even though you get to lie about it almost non-stop courtesy of the unbelievably incompetent and potentially republic-destroying decision handed down by the Chief Puppet of the Supreme Joke, John Roberts, your campaign ads can't hide the one thing that we all know to be true: if the government doesn't spend money in an economic environment where corporations are too busy hoarding their cash and the US consumer has no cash because they are flat broke, bankrupt, jobless and sometimes all three, the economy goes straight into the shitter.
Again.
We know that and you know that, and more to the point, we know that you know that. And yet your entire platform is stolen from the Tea-Bag morons i.e. you want to stop ALL government spending. So we now know, beyond a shadow of doubt what you really stand for. We now know that you really do want the economy to tank. That way, once the shit hits the fan, you can blame it all on Obama and get Caribou Barbie or some other equally brain-dead meat-puppet installed in the Whitehouse in 2012, and you can finally finish what Dick Cheney and his idiot side-kick started after the bloodless coup d'etat of 2000, the utter destruction of the Constitution and the end to representative democracy in this country. (Don't get me wrong, they'll still have "elections" and people will still "vote", but the only interests being represented will be those of the corporations).
It means that we now know, beyond a shadow of doubt, that you are the party that is solely interested in protecting corporations and their profits over the well-being of the citizenry you claim to represent. (Not new news I know, but it is refreshing to have it finally out in the open).
It means that we know, beyond a shadow of doubt, that you will say and do ANYTHING to get elected and that you are the furthest thing from the patriots you pretend to be. (No real surprise there then either).
It means that whilst your over-paid enablers in the Corporate Media continue to lob nothing but pre-screened, pre-approved softballs during their 'up close and hard-hitting' interviews with you, the electorate has finally seen through it all and at long last figured you out.
We know that you are mean, greedy, selfish people that care only about themselves and nothing about the rest of us, and we know that you think we are so stupid that we won't ever figure that out. Well, I think this time you have gone too far. I think that this time your baises have started to show through so clearly and so blatantly that you will wind up getting your dicks slammed in the drawer. Hard.
So sure, go ahead and crow about your upcoming takeovers of the House and Senate, start measuring those curtains and planning to move in your office furniture, but when on November 3rd, after all the dust has cleared, you find out that you are still in the minority, maybe then you will finally figure out that you can't treat the electorate as a bunch of un-educated semi-literate morons that can be manipulated by slick ad campaigns full of lies and bullshit, and that you might actually need to come up with an economic platform that helps people, rather then corporations.
Wait, what? Yeah, I know, no fucking way, right? I'll have a three-way with Salma Hayek and Cindy Crawford before that ever happens.
Again.
We know that and you know that, and more to the point, we know that you know that. And yet your entire platform is stolen from the Tea-Bag morons i.e. you want to stop ALL government spending. So we now know, beyond a shadow of doubt what you really stand for. We now know that you really do want the economy to tank. That way, once the shit hits the fan, you can blame it all on Obama and get Caribou Barbie or some other equally brain-dead meat-puppet installed in the Whitehouse in 2012, and you can finally finish what Dick Cheney and his idiot side-kick started after the bloodless coup d'etat of 2000, the utter destruction of the Constitution and the end to representative democracy in this country. (Don't get me wrong, they'll still have "elections" and people will still "vote", but the only interests being represented will be those of the corporations).
It means that we now know, beyond a shadow of doubt, that you are the party that is solely interested in protecting corporations and their profits over the well-being of the citizenry you claim to represent. (Not new news I know, but it is refreshing to have it finally out in the open).
It means that we know, beyond a shadow of doubt, that you will say and do ANYTHING to get elected and that you are the furthest thing from the patriots you pretend to be. (No real surprise there then either).
It means that whilst your over-paid enablers in the Corporate Media continue to lob nothing but pre-screened, pre-approved softballs during their 'up close and hard-hitting' interviews with you, the electorate has finally seen through it all and at long last figured you out.
We know that you are mean, greedy, selfish people that care only about themselves and nothing about the rest of us, and we know that you think we are so stupid that we won't ever figure that out. Well, I think this time you have gone too far. I think that this time your baises have started to show through so clearly and so blatantly that you will wind up getting your dicks slammed in the drawer. Hard.
So sure, go ahead and crow about your upcoming takeovers of the House and Senate, start measuring those curtains and planning to move in your office furniture, but when on November 3rd, after all the dust has cleared, you find out that you are still in the minority, maybe then you will finally figure out that you can't treat the electorate as a bunch of un-educated semi-literate morons that can be manipulated by slick ad campaigns full of lies and bullshit, and that you might actually need to come up with an economic platform that helps people, rather then corporations.
Wait, what? Yeah, I know, no fucking way, right? I'll have a three-way with Salma Hayek and Cindy Crawford before that ever happens.
Friday, October 22, 2010
Want to really piss off a Tea-Bagger? Show them this graph...(you might have to explain it to them though it has numbers and shit)..
If the numbers still confuse them use the verbal version and watch their tiny little heads explode...
More private sector jobs have been created in the last 8 months under the Obama administration than in the last EIGHT YEARS under bush....
Suck on that you teabagging weenies!!!
Top Gear finally reaches the big time...
Attention all Yanks...if you still don't know what Top Gear is, the show is being featured on 60 Minutes this sunday...I know that a show broadcast on BBC America might scare you because they speak proper English and use proper grammar and the like, but on Top Gear they speak horsepower and fun almost exclusively...So if you can stand to rip yourselves away from "Who wants to win a million dances with the stars on survivor amazing race american idol real housewives of Podunk shores" for a few minutes, you might find another show to watch...
If however, like most Americans who have the attention span of a crack-whore in a time-machine, you have already become bored with this post and buggered off, thanks for your time, and enjoy the dreck you normally watch as your brains turn to porridge and your eyes rot in their sockets...
Hugs and kisses etc etc
If however, like most Americans who have the attention span of a crack-whore in a time-machine, you have already become bored with this post and buggered off, thanks for your time, and enjoy the dreck you normally watch as your brains turn to porridge and your eyes rot in their sockets...
Hugs and kisses etc etc
Shirley Sherrod vs. Juan Williams. Outrage disparity much?
So the right-wing media machine kicks in to high gear to defend the bigot, he had over 9 minutes on GMA this morning to give his "Bigot? Who me?" act a spin and it got me to thinking about Shirley Sherrod. Remember her? The Federal employee that was summarily fired for comments it turns out she didn't actually make. Strangely I don't remember her being given the same sort of free air-time to repudiate the blatant lies fashioned by Fuxx news contributor Brietbart when she got fired, but hey, it's not like the M$M is owned by republican-backing corporations or anything...
The media in this country make me ill.
The media in this country make me ill.
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