This is awesome: Nation Once Again Comes Under Sway Of Pink-Faced Half-Wit
HAHAHA - Frothing, Shouting Dim-Bulbs: An American Tradition
I can't tell you how much I love The Onion. How much I need to laugh about the complete circus politics has become in this country. I am so grateful for Jon Stewart, Steven Colbert, Bill Maher, Lewis Black... sometimes it seems like the comedians are the only ones who see the situation clearly!
Oh, as another example of this, CRACKED published an article about the "Ground Zero Mosque" that was the most reasoned, rational thing I've seen on it. Cracked. It's like Mad Magazine for the Internet. WTF? Can I go live in a comediocracy? Seriously! The comedians are the only ones that get it these days.
The media is out of control. Just the way we like it in a free country, of course, but where is their sense of responsibility? It's all about creating controversy, sensationalism, self-righteous anger, and utter bullshit. I had a conversation at a party this weekend about the "Ground Zero Mosque" with a woman who, quite naturally based on how it's being reported, thought the mosque was being proposed literally ON TOP OF ground zero. I told her it was 3 blocks away, which in lower Manhattan, may as well be three miles. There are porn shops closer. She immediately switched to, "oh, well that's different" and saw that the MEDIA was the problem here, not the mosque. Ugh. So nice when people, shown some simple facts, can be so reasonable. Most people are, in person, one on one. But when you get a Pink-Faced Half-Wit that just makes shit up to get them riled up and indignant, using words they are supposed to fear or revere, like communism, socialism, fascism, god, country, freedom, etc, to manipulate them into believing just about anything, people become stupid sheep.
It makes me start to wonder... what was so bad about voter apathy? Stupid people shouldn't vote. Or breed. But that's another rant! Enough for now - enjoy the article!
