Friday, August 05, 2011
John Kerry On Media Responsibility
Sen. Kerry (D-MA; What's the matter with those people in Massachusetts?) reportedly said the following on MSNBC (you know, that demented network nobody watches):
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And I have to tell you, I say this to you politely. The media in America has a bigger responsibility than it's exercising today. The media has got to begin to not give equal time or equal balance to an absolutely absurd notion just because somebody asserts it or simply because somebody says something which everybody knows is not factual.
It doesn't deserve the same credit as a legitimate idea about what you do. And the problem is everything is put into this tit-for-tat equal battle and America is losing any sense of what's real, of who's accountable, of who is not accountable, of who's real, who isn't, who's serious, who isn't?Hmmm. The way I interpret that, if the media follow Kerry's advice, we won't be reading, hearing or seeing much of or about Sen. Kerry in the future.
Labels: Kerry, Media inanity, Political correctness
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Throw the President Under The Bus
Let's face it, friends, we've elected as our President a narcissistic incompetent boob who makes Hamlet look decisive, and who's giving socialism a bad name. The man couldn't lead himself into a mens room, and his foreign policy consists of emboldening our enemies while simultaneously alienating our allies. He has made himself a national liability, and as Glenn Reynolds has repeatedly said, a reprise of the Carter years is now the best case scenario for the Obama administration.
If the Democrats in Congress are smart, they'll throw him under the bus and start working with the Repubs to solve the budget, debt and policy problems that are rapidly heading toward becoming an existential threat to our Republic. (Not that I have any hope for the likes of Reid and Pelosi.) This process has to be bipartisan, because if it's not, neither side will have the political courage to push what needs to be done to bring spending under control and allow the economy to reenergize itself. A cheap way to start would be to kill Cap 'n' Tax once and for all, get rid of Elizabeth Warren and her Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and generally get out of the business of regulating everything at the Federal level. States need to have more power to manage their own affairs, because most of them are on the verge of going broke.
In order to have a zero-debt national budget, spending would have to be cut by at least 30 percent, and if you believe the Wikipedia article, more like 40 percent in FY 2012. That's on the order of a $1.5 trillion reduction in spending, yet Congress is wasting time and perfectly good oxygen arguing over whether to cut $6 billion (Dems) or $60 billion (Repubs) from spending in the current fiscal year. Let's use $50 billion as a compromise--let's see, that's 5 followed by 10 zeros divided by 15 followed by 11 zeros--canceling zeros ... 5 over 150 equals 3 and 1/3 percent, or .0333 of what needs to be cut in order to stop the national debt from growing. And Harry Reid and his buddies talk about "draconian" cuts proposed by the Repubs. Idiots! We need to get rid of whole departments!
Not that there's a shortage of idiocy floating around. The MSM won't report this because they're ideologically in bed with the Reids and Pelosis of the world, so voters, who have a vague idea that we have too much debt and are adding to it at the rate of some $4 billion a day, still don't grasp either the magnitude of the problem or how close we are to crashing. I know austerity is painful, but not as painful as a total fiscal collapse of the country.
All I can say is that our political class better start growing some cojones or we'll all be dumpster diving for dinner before we know it, because the crash will make the Great Depression seem like a kindergarten picnic.
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If the Democrats in Congress are smart, they'll throw him under the bus and start working with the Repubs to solve the budget, debt and policy problems that are rapidly heading toward becoming an existential threat to our Republic. (Not that I have any hope for the likes of Reid and Pelosi.) This process has to be bipartisan, because if it's not, neither side will have the political courage to push what needs to be done to bring spending under control and allow the economy to reenergize itself. A cheap way to start would be to kill Cap 'n' Tax once and for all, get rid of Elizabeth Warren and her Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and generally get out of the business of regulating everything at the Federal level. States need to have more power to manage their own affairs, because most of them are on the verge of going broke.
In order to have a zero-debt national budget, spending would have to be cut by at least 30 percent, and if you believe the Wikipedia article, more like 40 percent in FY 2012. That's on the order of a $1.5 trillion reduction in spending, yet Congress is wasting time and perfectly good oxygen arguing over whether to cut $6 billion (Dems) or $60 billion (Repubs) from spending in the current fiscal year. Let's use $50 billion as a compromise--let's see, that's 5 followed by 10 zeros divided by 15 followed by 11 zeros--canceling zeros ... 5 over 150 equals 3 and 1/3 percent, or .0333 of what needs to be cut in order to stop the national debt from growing. And Harry Reid and his buddies talk about "draconian" cuts proposed by the Repubs. Idiots! We need to get rid of whole departments!
Not that there's a shortage of idiocy floating around. The MSM won't report this because they're ideologically in bed with the Reids and Pelosis of the world, so voters, who have a vague idea that we have too much debt and are adding to it at the rate of some $4 billion a day, still don't grasp either the magnitude of the problem or how close we are to crashing. I know austerity is painful, but not as painful as a total fiscal collapse of the country.
All I can say is that our political class better start growing some cojones or we'll all be dumpster diving for dinner before we know it, because the crash will make the Great Depression seem like a kindergarten picnic.
Labels: Congress, Debt, Deficit, Democrats, Federal budget, government, Media inanity, Obama, Pelosi, politicians, politics, Reid, Republicans
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Lindsay Lohan Coverage
I realize that some people might actually care, and that the news networks need to fill airtime, but geez!
For the record, I think Ms. Lohan ought to be treated no better and no worse than Flo Schmo who works at Wal-Mart if she had behaved like Ms. Lohan. Except for the bit about segregation from the general jail population for her own safety.
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For the record, I think Ms. Lohan ought to be treated no better and no worse than Flo Schmo who works at Wal-Mart if she had behaved like Ms. Lohan. Except for the bit about segregation from the general jail population for her own safety.
Labels: Celebrities, Law Enforcement, Media inanity
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Letterman's Second Apology ...
Should have been his first.
If he'd said last week what he said on the 15th the whole thing would have blown over within a day or two. As it is, some people are still screaming for his scalp.
I'm not a Letterman fan and haven't watched his show for more than a couple minutes at a time. I just don't think he's that funny. His "Top 10" lists used to be funny but they've lost their spark (or something) in recent years. I thought the "knocked up" remark in regards to the Palin daughter was despicable, mean and low, irrespective of whether he was referring to Willow or Bristol. I thought the same about his "slutty flight attendant" crack, but I figure Sarah Palin is a big girl and can take it.
The problem was, Letterman's first "apology" sounded more like a justification/rationalization than an apology, with the effect that the second, real apology seems like an act of desperation after the loss of at least one sponsor and who knows what kind of conversations with CBS and other sponsors. Like many similar cases, the apology that comes after the s--t hits the fan always has the stink of being more sorry about being caught than about the original act.
I frankly don't care if Letterman gets fired or stays on; either way he's damaged goods to some extent. I'm certainly not going to start watching him because of this, although if I had been a regular viewer before the incident I probably would stop watching due to his lack of class.
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If he'd said last week what he said on the 15th the whole thing would have blown over within a day or two. As it is, some people are still screaming for his scalp.
I'm not a Letterman fan and haven't watched his show for more than a couple minutes at a time. I just don't think he's that funny. His "Top 10" lists used to be funny but they've lost their spark (or something) in recent years. I thought the "knocked up" remark in regards to the Palin daughter was despicable, mean and low, irrespective of whether he was referring to Willow or Bristol. I thought the same about his "slutty flight attendant" crack, but I figure Sarah Palin is a big girl and can take it.
The problem was, Letterman's first "apology" sounded more like a justification/rationalization than an apology, with the effect that the second, real apology seems like an act of desperation after the loss of at least one sponsor and who knows what kind of conversations with CBS and other sponsors. Like many similar cases, the apology that comes after the s--t hits the fan always has the stink of being more sorry about being caught than about the original act.
I frankly don't care if Letterman gets fired or stays on; either way he's damaged goods to some extent. I'm certainly not going to start watching him because of this, although if I had been a regular viewer before the incident I probably would stop watching due to his lack of class.
Labels: Humor, Media inanity, Sarah Palin, weasel words
Friday, May 22, 2009
Rampant Cowardice
Having opened up a can of worms with her accusation that the CIA regularly misleads (i.e., lies to) Congress, which I hear is a federal felony, Ms. Pelosi today refused to utter a single word on the subject, other than to say that she stands by her statement but will say no more about it. Seems to me she's decided, having dodged the Congressional investigation bullet thanks to a compliant Democratic caucus, to hunker down and wait for the storm to blow over. While that may be the politically safe thing to do, especially since she can't seem to get her story straight on the details of what she knew and when, it is cowardice of the first order. Is this the person we want to be two heartbeats away from the Presidency?
Not in my USA.
Lots of cowardice, too on the part of the compliant media, who apparently accepted Pelosi's stonewalling without making a fuss. Not to mention Democrat members of Congress who know in their hearts that an accusation of a crime by the Speaker of the House of Representatives really needs to be followed to the end, but who don't have the guts to demand it because of party loyalty. What about loyalty to the United States of America?
I'm getting to the point of believing we'd have a better government by picking 535 people at random from the voter rolls to serve in the House and Senate than the professionally pusillanimous pimps we have now.
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Not in my USA.
Lots of cowardice, too on the part of the compliant media, who apparently accepted Pelosi's stonewalling without making a fuss. Not to mention Democrat members of Congress who know in their hearts that an accusation of a crime by the Speaker of the House of Representatives really needs to be followed to the end, but who don't have the guts to demand it because of party loyalty. What about loyalty to the United States of America?
I'm getting to the point of believing we'd have a better government by picking 535 people at random from the voter rolls to serve in the House and Senate than the professionally pusillanimous pimps we have now.
Labels: CIA, Congress, Democrats, government, Media inanity, Pelosi
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
News Flash! Socialist = Black
Or so says Lewis Diuguid, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist in this piece of highly polished fossilized intellectual horses**t.
I must be misinformed. When I hear the word "socialist" I think of a snooty European quasi-intellectual bureaucrat. I guess the schools I went to did a poor job of indoctrinating me, or so it appears from Mr. Diuguid's risible item.
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I must be misinformed. When I hear the word "socialist" I think of a snooty European quasi-intellectual bureaucrat. I guess the schools I went to did a poor job of indoctrinating me, or so it appears from Mr. Diuguid's risible item.
Labels: Media inanity, Political correctness, Socialist
