Reply #10: They're free, alright...

[warren pease]

Free to do as much damage as possible as quickly as possible to the democratic process, to the national IQ, to intelligent political discourse, to the percentage of people who bother to vote, to the marketplace of ideas, to the necessity of an informed citizenry in an allegedly free state, to issues and substance, to the death rattle of journalistic integrity, to the public's understanding of what the Bushies are really up to, and to the public's obsession with sex in politics -- which is apparently the only thing left that's worth getting excited about now that we've all been trained by TV "news" to regard the likelihood of a US first strike nuclear attack against Iran as no big fucking deal.

They're obviously also free to warp the public's ability to tell how it might just possibly be a tad worse to fuck over the whole world than spend a little cash on a paid date.

If you need to know anything at all about what's happening in your own country -- sports scores excluded -- the last place you want to look is anything published in or broadcast from the US.

Go to media originating just about anywhere else -- from the UK to South Asia to Venezuela to Russia -- and you'll learn more about US politics and current events in an hour than a CNN watcher will learn in an entire year.

And isn't it amazing that Pravda and Tass and Izvestia -- among the most state-controlled propaganda machines of the 20th century -- have all been rehabilitated and function as a relatively free press these days.

On the other hand, the people who used to laugh at them for being under the Politburo's thumb and only printing government lies are now so cozy with the Bushies that allegations of sexual interludes in the white house involving a male prostitute masquerading as a reporter and high ranking members of BushCo are not considered newsworthy -- which is to say, not considered properly considerate and respectful of our little corporal and his emerging Fourth Reich.

I guess being a rightwing tool reporter and a male prostitute makes you a whore squared, which is a hell of an achievement for a sick bald wingnut bastard with a lech on for Georgie boy and a reputation for tossing softball questions that even a slut wouldn't touch.

Gawd, what a sewer that place must be. Maybe some titan could slowly tighten the beltway until all those inside are gradually crushed by the weight of their own sense of self-importance and the inability to understand the process of belt-tightening, that sort of thing being reserved for the peasantry and not intended for the political or upper bureaucratic classes.


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