Letters to the Editor
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'Scuse me for a second...
I have to get my hip waders on to get through the lake of sarcasm dripping off of this post!
Good one, Glenn. I have a HUGE man crush on you now...!!
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But wait! Do I hear an annoying, inane sound like fingernails dragged on a chalkboard by someone blowing a wet fart? Must be a right-wing trolltard sending off another shitty, impotent talking-point-filled screed from their parents' basement.
Best ignore the morons, I always say.
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At least the story got out early.
I mean we can't possible talk about this for seven months. Can we?
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The power of irony...and the sorry of truth
Wow, this may well be the junior equivalent of Swift's "Modest Proposal." Yes, all is Wright in Americaland where no criticism is brooked, and certainly no effort is made to deal with crucial issues.
When you look at the link to the WHCD (at Huff Post) one can well undertand why Steve Colbert wasn't funny two years ago. None of those people, so-called journalists, are at home typing out a novel about a young, dedicated journalist exposing corruption. The whole thing is postmodern fiction in which corruption is celebrated.
The journalists aren't interested in doing doing their jobs. If this doesn't underscore the incestous noncritical nature of the media then nothing will. It's there in living color. This is why Colbert fell flat; his satire had the ring of truth: all of these metaphorically "fat" people gathering, celebrating themselves as journalists...
It's about Hollywood East, which is why the celebrity-based, trashy TMZ is talking about heading east and doing here in the Nation's Capital what they do in the Nation's Media Capital, namely hunting down celebrities. Politicians are not political leaders responsible for the wishes and desires of the electorate or citizenry. No, they are just another form of celebrities...Look at the TV and moviestars that gathered at the WHCD with media and political stars.
...Meanwhile the country burns...we have American women who are losing life expectancy in our rural areas, and when the womenfolk start declining, you know something foul is afoot...peoeple losing their homes...speculators looting the economy via funny money schemes
But no, Wright is vastly more important and too entertaining to be ignored...
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@ProWar
Ah, thanks for dropping in (with thesaurus in hand, I see) to remind us that, despite Glenn's quips, this really is a very, very important issue that affects all of us as Americans, and that if the very serious pundits selling Coca-Cola and McDonald's have deemed this issue worthy of our consideration, then we should have the patriotic humility to hear them out and then agree with them.
See, it's about "character". You have character if you wear a lapel pin or are George Bush. You do not have character if you know what a latte or quiche tastes like or if you can tell the difference between a Saudi Arabian and an Iraqi.
It's serious, yet politically-idealistic people like yourself, ProWar, who keep us hoity-toity librul East Coast (schooled with GWB) pinko libruls from forgetting our very serious and character-centered roots, which are pinned to a lapel.
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Wright was right, but not helpful just now
The people who will be most enthusiastic about blaming Obama for Wright's talk are likely Republican voters anyway---and I suppose some Clinton supporters. Do we know who found that little snippet of Wright's sermon that plays over and over? At any rate, it won't matter. Obama has the Democratic nomination and Hillary (if I knew then what I know now) Clinton just can't accept this. So we shall have to dance the hideous gavotte of each and every state voting before Hillary will leave. Too bad but she just can't admit she's toast. The Wright flap will fade. The Revernd is now about getting his 15 minutes..and he'll probably write a book so he can leave some money to his grandchildren.
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Wright's achilles heel
Wright's comments about America are the tip of the iceburg here folks. In 2003 as the country was about to go to war, Wright lied to his dentist that he flossed every day. CNN has found out that he only flosses "...right before his appointment if ever."
I have a feeling we'll be hearing much more about Rev. Wright's credibility gap.
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I'll remember this funny article
when I'm still reading about Wright in Salon seven months from now.
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Why?
I'd say the media doesn't care for a few reasons:
1) They're well-paid. They're not suffering like a lot of people.
2) Their jobs aren't demanding - they just find controversial stuff. They don't have to think.
3) They are NOT part of regular America. They're the elitists.
To be more blunt, they're not underwater on their loans, they're not afraid of losing their jobs, they're not coping with a blown-off limb from an Iraq tour of duty. They're in their candy-coated bubble, their own little world, separate from ours.
And if we end up with President McCain, and we get his inevitably "Bush term 3", then you can guess they won't change their tunes either until something pierces their bubbles. Because right now they're a bunch of narcissists who don't give a damn.
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Thank you, Glenn
You and King Kaufman are the only things that bring me back to this site anymore. Too bad Joan Walsh doesn't read your column.
Keep up the good work. One day maybe we'll live in a world where clear-minded intelligent voices such as yours are the norm and not the exception.
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@DragonScholar
they're not underwater on their loans, they're not afraid of losing their jobs, they're not coping with a blown-off limb from an Iraq tour of duty. They're in their candy-coated bubble, their own little world, separate from ours
Damn, sounds pretty good.
Tell me, where can I join this 'media' thing?
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Thank you
I was beginning to think I was the only one who thought that this crack was navel gazing. Bless you for saying what is inside my head!
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And while we're at it...
... I just skimmed a modest proposal by this Irish dude who suggested solving the food riot crisis by eating the children of the polygamy sect. Made sense to me!
Bon appetit and pass the Heinz 57!
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
First came the Bush "election", then 9/11, then the war run up and now the aftermath.
Around 2003 I increasingly felt like and started to believe that I was living this nightmare movie come alive. The only plotline difference is that the pod people were all extreme right wing Republicans and all that entails.
Hell, even my Democratic and Independent friends became "possessed" with the popular lies this administration fed to us. Similarily like the friends of the protagonists of the movie. My greatest fear was that I too would become like the masses or a pod person myself.
To save my sanity I left the country, if only to view the madness from a distance. Only recently have I witnessed some significant portion of the population begin to wake up to the harsh truth of our current cultural and political reality. I owe this shift in thinking mainly due to the discussions carefully crafted and painstakingly researched by you Glen and authors of the same ilk. Thank you.
Yes, the terror grows once the seed is planted and people stay asleep. Let's hope that more and more people become awake before it it truely too late.
Here are some tag lines from the 1978 movie remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.......
"Get some sleep
Sleep . . . Sleep . . . and be born again into a world without fear and hate!
Watch out! They get you while you're sleeping!
You'll never close your eyes again.
From deep space...
The seed is planted...terror grows".