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The news is now shamelessly reporting all the screw ups of ShrubCo. I guess when you are (P)resident and make about 200 mistakes a day without doing anything right at all, they have to put SOMETHING on about you. The problem is that few people seem to give a serious crap about it. I hear nobody discussing problems at the gym, at work, the store, or anyplace else but here or the op ed pages. One can look at polls (when the ugly results don't cause said poll to be disappeared) and see people do not approve of the crap de jour. Hardly a venting of anger, especially when the poll is a push poll. What is it going to take for Mr. and Ms. Sixpack America to give a rat's red rosy ass? Having their kids hauled off to a "terra" camp? Their home towns bombed into the stone age? Nah. A gigantic hurricane slammed into two states, followed by a criminally indifferent response, and it is old news to most people who just want to see who will be the next American Idol. The "Soma" of the day? A cackling blonde talking head frantically reporting the next missing Aryan girl, which quickly defuses all the really bad news. A little more "Soma" on the radio, as the cacophony of RW shitheads spin all Americas troubles away faster than a frontal labotomy. They know it is easy to hate, and hard to care, and use this to their advantage in lining their pockets. Can you imagine what would happen if Bill Clinton had put the UAE in charge of some ports, or had been playing J. Edgar Hoover with our phone system? The man lied about an illicit hummer and got impeached, while the blah blah talking heads wallowed in the glory of the ensuing feeding frenzy. Even NPR had constant coverage on that crap. Today the fan is full of real crap. No septic tank could take the volume. But "Lost" is on tonight!
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