I musta missed the memo

I am so fucking sick and tired of the lies about how "liberals hate America", or "Liberals supported Saddam" or any of the other stuff like that. I mean, seriously. And it's not confined to fringe groups, either, Rush Limbaugh's whole career has been based on it. Most of the popular conservative bloggers do it. So stuff like mentioned here makes me mad.

Tags: Politics, Language, Mindscribbles

"The Amazing Blogosphere"

So, remember those promises of "new journalism"? Remember how blogs became the "Next Big Thing" and are going to revitalize politics?

It's bullshit, 100%.

The blogosphere isn't some magic shining light of truth. It's a million people, all talking, and what's the things that get the most attention? Sex. Drugs. Scandal. Gossip. And politics of name-calling and hate. On both sides, but mostly on the right. Because now, the head of CNN International resigned over off-the-record comments he might have said that might have maybe been implying that the US armed forces had targeted journalists in Iraq, then clarified and corrected. Because a bunch of right-wing blogs and regularly commenting idiots like Ann "How the FUCK Does She Still Have a Job" Coulter and so on made a big deal out of them. FOR FUCK'S SAKE.

It's not news, or correcting the "liberal media." It's partisan witch hunts for when people don't seem to properly toe the Republican line. Which makes them "anti-american." Like the "Swift Boat Veterans For Truth." Truth doesn't matter any more. It's just spin.

This is our brave new world. Where Pro-Confederacy writers can make books full of garbage and lies that hit the NYTimes bestseller list. Joining the exalted ranks of Ann "Lying Bitch" Coulter and Sean "Wanker" Hannity and other famous conservative liars.

Welcome to the brave new world. If blogs replace the "liberal media", you're going to end up getting your news from some guy in a basement, who gets his from Rush Limbaugh. Journalistic standards and truth are for wimps. Especially when the facts are objectively anti-American.

Hey! Look over there! Some minor academic said something wildly loony! Quick! Let's start crowing about he represents The Left!

Tags: Politics

I hate to be a bother...

But, just so the rest of the world doesn't forget, we didn't invade Iraq to "bring democracy to the Iraqis." We invaded Iraq because George W. Bush, Ms. Rice, Colin Powell, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and most of the "liberal media" kept telling us things like Iraq had nuclear missiles pointed at New York that could be launched in 45 minutes.

Which was, to be completely frank, utter bullshit. They were lies. Direct lies, to the American Public and the world. For proof? We gave up searching for those elusive WMD about a month ago. But hey, it's all perfectly justified by one election, right? (Which, incidentally, just created a group to write the constitution to create the real government in 13 months, and we don't even know the results officaly yet)

Tags:Politics

Happy Darwin Day!

Happy Darwin Day!

(Okay, so it's almost over. Deal.)

A statement of belief

Loosely inspired by a conversation with a friend, who asked about my plans to move...

Of course I'm going to stay in the US. I love America. Not the blindly jingoistic paranoid nation afraid of its shadow and ready to bomb anybody who looks at us funny. Not the would-be empire, invader, and liar our leaders have tried to make it. Not a land of torture and fear of speaking out. America, the way it was meant to be, the ideals and everything they taught us in school. America was founded by a bunch of misfits, outcasts, heretics, swindlers and the unwanted poor. "Desperate huddled masses" ring a bell? That's America. Bring us your poor, your tired, your huddled masses! Land of the free, home of the brave. Not home of the fearful and the desperate.

George W. Bush and the modern Republican leadership fundamentally don't understand America. They don't understand why it was founded, or what its ideals are. And they fundamentally misunderstand liberals. They, and all their propaganda preachers and rabble-rousers. They cry bull about liberals "Hating America". Fuck them. I love America, the America I learned about in school, the America of our ideals and our dreams. The shining city on a hill, not the walled-off fortress at the heart of an empire.

And so if Rush Limbaugh thinks that means I hate America, it just proves he's an idiot.

Tags: Mindscribbles, Journal, Politics