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07-29-2009, 08:01 AM
Dispatches From Happy Land
By David Glenn Cox
You know, when Sarah Palin is right, she is right. It was bound to happen sooner or later. If you keep throwing rocks, eventually you’ll break a window. In her farewell, gone, but not gone address she said:
"And first, some straight talk for some, just some in the media because another right protected for all of us is freedom of the press, and you all have such important jobs reporting facts and informing the electorate, and exerting power to influence. You represent what could and should be a respected honest profession that could and should be the cornerstone of our democracy."
Her complaint is inside baseball, and she lives on the outside of the beltway mentality. Don’t take this to mean I agree with her beliefs, I don’t. She is a loon, alone on a quiet lonely lake, and so she calls out. If any but another loon answers her, she claims that they are stealing her lake or attacking her call.
Our freedom of the press has given us Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Michael Savage, so she has a point. We have freedom of the press but no freedom to control the press. Those with the money can buy the press and you get, "Obama's Plan Isn't the Answer" in the Washington Post written by Martin Feldstein, a professor emeritus in economics at Harvard University. Gosh, a professor of economics at Harvard and the former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors from 1982 to 1984. Professor Feldstein ripped into the Obama plan just like Sarah with a new moose to cook.
But what did our free press leave out? Oh yeah, Mr. Feldstein also worked for insurance giant AIG when, like Humpty Dumpty, they took their big fall. He also worked for Eli Lilly and Company, the world's 10th largest drug company. How could these pertinent details have been omitted? Freedom of the press means free to omit as well as to publish. Sarah continues:
"And it is our men and women in uniform securing it, and we are facing tough challenges in America with some seeming to just be hell bent maybe on tearing down our nation, perpetuating some pessimism, and suggesting American apologetics, suggesting perhaps that our best days were yesterdays."
True but not true. Our service people are not protecting us in Iraq and Pipelineistan; they are securing the borders of a crumbling empire in a game of global chess. They have their boots on the necks of occupied peoples while America builds an embassy larger than the Vatican in a city struggling to produce enough clean water and electricity. We recently suffered our 5,000th fatality but even that figure is misleading. We categorize those deaths by status, and contractor deaths are sometimes unworthy of measure.
Under our freedom of the press, as Ms. Palin points out, dissent in the press is viewed as tearing down our nation. Pessimism and distress over the course our nation has taken is viewed as unpatriotic defeatism. Does anyone remember what our goal was in Afghanistan? Saddam is gone and a quisling democracy is established in Iraq, but does anyone remember why we are going to keep 50,000 troops there indefinitely? To defend our freedom? Or the Iraqi’s freedom? But our freedom of the press assures us that these news stories, when and/or if published, will be below the fold or on page six.
"Suggesting perhaps that our best days were yesterdays." My god, she makes George Orwell proud, and if he knew what she said he would claw at the interior of his casket trying to return to us. And somewhere in the fiery depths of hell Ronald Reagan would say to Satan across the weenie roast, "You know, I used to say that all the time, too!"
Tens of millions unemployed, major industries bankrupted, twelve million Americans made homeless this year to compliment the twelve million made homeless last year. A staggering trade deficit owed primarily to nations that don’t have our best interests at heart. An equally staggering budget deficit, half of which is/was spent on the military. Is Palin right? Are these our best days? If not, why doesn’t our free press tell us so?
July 28 (Bloomberg) -- Home values in 20 major U.S. cities fell less than forecast in May, reinforcing evidence that the market is stabilizing.
Economy low, 'generosity high'- USA Today
Three states vie for most-improved. -CNBC
Home Prices rise 1st time since 06 - CNN
Hawaii Again Declares Obama Birth Certificate Real - Fox News
Why Is 'Taboo' Sex So Much Better? - Fox News
So why the conflict between Palin and the media? She reads them like the books she actually never reads. The media love her, she is an easy day at the office, and best of all she’s an outsider.
Joe Biden can say on national television that it's not up to the United States to tell Israel whether to attack Iran or not, and the story is quickly buried. Joe’s a great guy; you should have seen him at the correspondents dinner.
Let Sarah Palin say something equally as stupid and it's headline news. And it’s not about Republican or Democrat, it is about inside versus outside, and Sarah Palin has been labeled as comic relief, no different than Ron Paul or Dennis Kucinich. They are the outsiders; their views are unworthy of consideration, or so say the insiders.
The trouble with dumbing down a society is that it has a snowball effect. It just keeps going until leadership becomes a home shopping channel hostess job. Suddenly millions think that she has the right idea when she actually has no ideas at all! It all becomes an Idiocracy, vacant of any real ideas and selling only slogans with the media as the referees. Now I’m not trying to say that Palin is anywhere near intelligent. I’m saying that she is no dumber than the rest of them; you don’t get elected governor of a state by being a fool. She’s cashing in and will sleep on fine linens and take expensive vacations for the rest of her life. Nice work for an idiot!
Doctor: "Well, don't want to sound like a dick or nothin', but, ah... it says on your chart that you're fucked up. Ah, you talk like a fag, and your shit's all retarded. What I'd do, is just like... like... you know, like, you know what I mean, like..." (Idiocracy 2006)
Female Reporter: "It started off boring and slow with Not Sure trying to bullshit everyone with a bunch of smart talk: 'Blah blah blah. You gotta believe me!' That part of the trial sucked! But then the Chief J. just went off. He said, 'Man, whatever! The guy's guilty as shit! We all know that.' And he sentenced his ass to one night of rehabilitation." (Idiocracy 2006)
"You represent what could and should be a respected honest profession that could and should be the cornerstone of our democracy." (Sarah Palin)
By David Glenn Cox
You know, when Sarah Palin is right, she is right. It was bound to happen sooner or later. If you keep throwing rocks, eventually you’ll break a window. In her farewell, gone, but not gone address she said:
"And first, some straight talk for some, just some in the media because another right protected for all of us is freedom of the press, and you all have such important jobs reporting facts and informing the electorate, and exerting power to influence. You represent what could and should be a respected honest profession that could and should be the cornerstone of our democracy."
Her complaint is inside baseball, and she lives on the outside of the beltway mentality. Don’t take this to mean I agree with her beliefs, I don’t. She is a loon, alone on a quiet lonely lake, and so she calls out. If any but another loon answers her, she claims that they are stealing her lake or attacking her call.
Our freedom of the press has given us Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Michael Savage, so she has a point. We have freedom of the press but no freedom to control the press. Those with the money can buy the press and you get, "Obama's Plan Isn't the Answer" in the Washington Post written by Martin Feldstein, a professor emeritus in economics at Harvard University. Gosh, a professor of economics at Harvard and the former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors from 1982 to 1984. Professor Feldstein ripped into the Obama plan just like Sarah with a new moose to cook.
But what did our free press leave out? Oh yeah, Mr. Feldstein also worked for insurance giant AIG when, like Humpty Dumpty, they took their big fall. He also worked for Eli Lilly and Company, the world's 10th largest drug company. How could these pertinent details have been omitted? Freedom of the press means free to omit as well as to publish. Sarah continues:
"And it is our men and women in uniform securing it, and we are facing tough challenges in America with some seeming to just be hell bent maybe on tearing down our nation, perpetuating some pessimism, and suggesting American apologetics, suggesting perhaps that our best days were yesterdays."
True but not true. Our service people are not protecting us in Iraq and Pipelineistan; they are securing the borders of a crumbling empire in a game of global chess. They have their boots on the necks of occupied peoples while America builds an embassy larger than the Vatican in a city struggling to produce enough clean water and electricity. We recently suffered our 5,000th fatality but even that figure is misleading. We categorize those deaths by status, and contractor deaths are sometimes unworthy of measure.
Under our freedom of the press, as Ms. Palin points out, dissent in the press is viewed as tearing down our nation. Pessimism and distress over the course our nation has taken is viewed as unpatriotic defeatism. Does anyone remember what our goal was in Afghanistan? Saddam is gone and a quisling democracy is established in Iraq, but does anyone remember why we are going to keep 50,000 troops there indefinitely? To defend our freedom? Or the Iraqi’s freedom? But our freedom of the press assures us that these news stories, when and/or if published, will be below the fold or on page six.
"Suggesting perhaps that our best days were yesterdays." My god, she makes George Orwell proud, and if he knew what she said he would claw at the interior of his casket trying to return to us. And somewhere in the fiery depths of hell Ronald Reagan would say to Satan across the weenie roast, "You know, I used to say that all the time, too!"
Tens of millions unemployed, major industries bankrupted, twelve million Americans made homeless this year to compliment the twelve million made homeless last year. A staggering trade deficit owed primarily to nations that don’t have our best interests at heart. An equally staggering budget deficit, half of which is/was spent on the military. Is Palin right? Are these our best days? If not, why doesn’t our free press tell us so?
July 28 (Bloomberg) -- Home values in 20 major U.S. cities fell less than forecast in May, reinforcing evidence that the market is stabilizing.
Economy low, 'generosity high'- USA Today
Three states vie for most-improved. -CNBC
Home Prices rise 1st time since 06 - CNN
Hawaii Again Declares Obama Birth Certificate Real - Fox News
Why Is 'Taboo' Sex So Much Better? - Fox News
So why the conflict between Palin and the media? She reads them like the books she actually never reads. The media love her, she is an easy day at the office, and best of all she’s an outsider.
Joe Biden can say on national television that it's not up to the United States to tell Israel whether to attack Iran or not, and the story is quickly buried. Joe’s a great guy; you should have seen him at the correspondents dinner.
Let Sarah Palin say something equally as stupid and it's headline news. And it’s not about Republican or Democrat, it is about inside versus outside, and Sarah Palin has been labeled as comic relief, no different than Ron Paul or Dennis Kucinich. They are the outsiders; their views are unworthy of consideration, or so say the insiders.
The trouble with dumbing down a society is that it has a snowball effect. It just keeps going until leadership becomes a home shopping channel hostess job. Suddenly millions think that she has the right idea when she actually has no ideas at all! It all becomes an Idiocracy, vacant of any real ideas and selling only slogans with the media as the referees. Now I’m not trying to say that Palin is anywhere near intelligent. I’m saying that she is no dumber than the rest of them; you don’t get elected governor of a state by being a fool. She’s cashing in and will sleep on fine linens and take expensive vacations for the rest of her life. Nice work for an idiot!
Doctor: "Well, don't want to sound like a dick or nothin', but, ah... it says on your chart that you're fucked up. Ah, you talk like a fag, and your shit's all retarded. What I'd do, is just like... like... you know, like, you know what I mean, like..." (Idiocracy 2006)
Female Reporter: "It started off boring and slow with Not Sure trying to bullshit everyone with a bunch of smart talk: 'Blah blah blah. You gotta believe me!' That part of the trial sucked! But then the Chief J. just went off. He said, 'Man, whatever! The guy's guilty as shit! We all know that.' And he sentenced his ass to one night of rehabilitation." (Idiocracy 2006)
"You represent what could and should be a respected honest profession that could and should be the cornerstone of our democracy." (Sarah Palin)