“Worst Blogger Ever!!!”
Ok so I haven’t posted in what I would estimate is about a month. Yeah so I have been busy making money for other people and haven’t had time to get outraged about anything. But today is an exception, I need to comment on this.
This morning there was a new employee for my company flying into our headquarters and I had to go pick him up from the airport. Anyway while I was waiting I decided to do a little AM radio scanning and came across a conservative morning show discussing how the Democrats will ruin the country if elected. This of course is nothing new and neither was the hosts statement (real quote no lie) “The US is one of the worst countries to live in and if the liberals win the Presidency it will get even worse.” Thats a nice little bit of hyperbole that usually would just roll over my ears, but not today.
I then switched over to NPR and literally as I switched they began a story about the state of emergency and temporary police state that is Pakistan at the moment. After I stopped laughing all I could think about was how on earth this guy could believe what he had just said. Any partisan is predisposed to amazing feats of exaggeratio, but man was this one bad.
This got me thinking about some ridiculous things I have heard from both sides recently and how when put in a greater context they point to a blissful ignorance of any grounding in reality. Like Rush Limbaugh’s recent statement of “Recession?! What Recession? We are booming!!” If only he had finished that comment with a “I don’t see no stinking recession!” in true Tony Montana style. Followed the same week by NPR predicting the next financial Ice Age and a return to the dustbowl.
I get it happy, reasonable reporting that takes a wait and see attitude with issues we cannot accurately predict fails to sell copy, but come on. This has to be the year of the Kevin Bacon Game Media Story. Every event can be linked to something partisan and buzzworthy. The SoCal fires are global warming! No they are the fault of crazy liberal hippies who won’t let us properly deforest. The world will explode tomorrow along with the economy! No the world is better than ever, in fact I hear mother nature is going to bring us infinity barrels of oil for being so awesome to her!
Simmer down folks. Take one of your kids Ritalins or a Percocet. panicking is never the answer and neither is wearing optical grade blinders. Let the egos go. What killed the League of Nations? Woodrow Wilson’s partisan, stubborn ass!! If we can stop masturbating to complete political domination for half a minute we might have a chance at getting something done.
On a side note if there is one more news story about some repressed Republican fucking small boys in a hot air balloon this year then we all get kill Antonin Scalia in a ritual elephant walk. If you don’t know what that is, look it up!
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