Not Ready to Make Nice [View All]

That's what it comes down to, I suppose. We were called "traitors" and worse. People have suggested we should be arrested, or killed. And they're still doing it. Everything we believe in has been dragged through the mud for the past thirty years, by Reagan, by Bush I, and by this little motherfucking chimp. But what's worse, there's the host of talking heads, of mindless puppet people, spouting vicious bullshit every time they open their mouths.

They trashed Natalie and the Chicks--people from Free Republic did everything they could to derail the careers of some beautiful and talented women who dared WHO DARED to question the righteousness of the monkey puppet and his war of choice. Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, and the rest of the FOX News scumbags were like attack dogs straining at a leash. Had it been possible, had they been able to get away with it, they would have egged them on to tear through the barricades and drag them kicking and screaming into the street to be beaten before our eyes. And YOU KNOW IT.

The corporate media went along with the war--creating immensely blinding, spinning, glorifying graphics for the war, lying to us, spewing the toxic propaganda of this administration all along, force-feeding bullshit to the American Public. And anyone who tried to speak out was shouted down. Not just Natalie, but anyone with the nerve.

To me it's part and parcel of the same damn thing. The Republicans serving the oil companies, the Republican AND Democratic Senators and Representatives capitulating to the insurance and credit card companies.

Oh, but NOW that the Dems are in control, and may well end up winning the White House in '08, they're crying for "bipartisanship." The leading candidate is one who tries to straddle the line, who tries to portray an image of being yet ANOTHER "uniter." She doesn't say so, but... that's the idea.

The runner up at this point goes even farther, saying that he wants to be a uniter, that he wants to end the "partisan" squabbling. The fact is that it's NOT about partisan bickering, it's about truth and justice vs. evil and deception.

But we're supposed to "play nice?"

To quote Natalie Maines: "I'm not ready to play nice."

Okay, I'll admit it. I'm sitting here watching "Shut Up and Sing," and the whole thing incenses me BEYOND description.

Fuck country music. Fuck the fans. Fuck Toby Keith for being a opportunistic bastard, fuck Reba McIntire for mocking them, Fuck the radio stations who refused to play their music. Fuck Free Republic, Fuck Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, and FUCK Ann Coulter, just on general principles. And FUCK George W. Bush and his collection of slimeball economic vampires that live in their eternal crypt.

And fuck anyone who wants to "make peace" with the whole lot of them.