Happy Friday Liberal Drinkers!
I trust you all are starting to recover from your mid-term election hangover. Now we all have to patiently wait for January before we witness all the lame GOP ducks waddling off to K-Street or Merck or Exxon etc. to begin/resume their lobbyist careers. But at least we have the GOP toe-sucking media hacks to amuse us with their frantic hair-pulling and cursing us all out for electing the Democrats in the meantime: "You put a WOMAN in as House Speaker! She has a vagina you fools! It's an established fact that vaginas embolden the terrorists!"
Case in point is GOP media-concubine, reinforcer of that charming Republican-Racist stereotype CNN's Glenn Beck (R-Needs To Chug A Tall Glass Of Shut The Fuck Up). While interviewing Keith Ellison, an American citizen democratically elected to represent Minnesota in Congress, Beck asked him to prove he's not going to kill us all with a dirty bomb because....gasp...he ain't a white Kreeeshtjuhn with a comb-over! (Quick aside to CNN: Glenn Beck is the human equivalent of chewing aluminum foil with a mouth full of metal fillings).
I wonder how Glenn or those like him would feel, if just as a hypothetical, Keith Olbermann asked Trent Lott (R-Pointy White Hood) in an interview if he was going to try to bring back racial segregation now that he's been given the #2 seat in the Senate? Which, actually given Lott's past statements and actions, wouldn't be nearly the unfair outrageous out-of-line question Beck asked Ellison. Well, we'd know what would happen..Keith would become MSNBC's Chernobyl correspondent until his contract was up.
You know kids, it's as if the GOP's media flunkies haven't learned one damn thing after the voters cut their masters off at the knees. Fox News sends out an internal memo hunting for proof (real or not) for their 'Terrrrrists Love Democrats' Talking Point, Sean Hannity's uni-brow has morphed into a hairy-headband-of-hate while he spews incoherent false accusations and insults at a grandmother of six who will be the FIRST woman Speaker of the House. Anne Coulter accolytes are sending envelopes of white powder to Air America. Bill O'Really-Needs-Better-Ratings trotted out his 'War On Fictional Jeebus B-Day Haters' a whole two weeks early cuz well he's got nothing else now has he? Does the American public have to draw these feebs on cable news a fucking map to Cluetown before they realize we don't buy that tired Orwellian crap they keep flinging at us like angry chimpanzees?
While we won the first battle for checks and balances November 7th. We have yet to win the second, which is just as important, the one for a fair accurate unbiased news media- the 'fourth branch' of government. An informed electorate is essential to democracy. And, I don't know about you but I'm tired of watching these hacks insulting our intelligence, lying to us about what's really going on, witholding information to protect politicians, exhibiting blatant bias for the right while not allowing the left an equal voice on the airwaves our tax dollars paid to create and our monthly bills pay to support. If we want to hold onto a balanced government, if we want to restore and maintain the check on power. We must be as passionate about forcing news organizations into serving that role as we are about electing the right people into office. For more information on this very important issue check out: http://www.stopbigmedia.com/ , http://www.fair.org/index.php, http://www.freepress.net/
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. Thomas Paine "
Please join us this Sunday at Sullivan's Irish Pub on Madison Avenue in Lakewood, Ohio. We will lift a glass to toast the spirit of Thomas Paine, a true journalist, a rebel-patriot whose published words spurred the men of his time to revolt against their British occupiers and lay their lives on the line to found this country we love.
Liberally Yours,
Judy
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment