I haven’t written anything in a while but there has been too much f*ckery going on this past week on the Idiot Tube aka the American Media so I will get both of them out w/ one blog posting.

Once again, we are allowing ourselves to fall into the media trap and further confusing the whole notion of the ‘chicken vs. the egg…..which comes first?’. Is the American Media the fault for all the senseless news that we are being barraged with or are they simply honoring a demand from us ‘the  village idiots’?  Let us look at the Tiger and the Salahi cases. (google both of these if you haven’t heard of them but I am sure you have)

Case #1: The Tiger Woods Fiasco

Cheating:

Why the shock of the possibility that the man is cheating on his wife? Are we now going to act like cheating has boundaries? Newsflash: IT DOES NOT! Rich/poor/educated/black/blackasian/gay/midget/albino….we are all human and there is an innate human need to seek something ‘better’ or search for ‘greener grass’.  But there is also ‘common sense’ that says…at some point you have to stop searching and deal with what you have.  But we also have established that Common Sense is not that Common. Therefore, Mr. Woods is just another guy who failed in that aspect of being human.

***Sidenote*** Cheating sometimes the time is inevitable, part of life (reasons stated above). The other times, there are contributing factors that we refuse to discuss.  If you have EVER been cheated on, have you asked yourself….’did I do anything to drive this person away?’ or do we always rush to judgment and blame the cheater. If you get cheated on by all of your partners, you might want to check yourself.

I don’t condone cheating but for the simple fact that it happens so often and sometimes by the people we least expect might mean that we need to change our conversations from blame-passing to some really deep thinking.

Black People and Race:

Now some black people went from f#ck Tiger and his non-black claiming self to ‘Fuck Tiger- that’s what he gets’. WTF!!! He wasn’t claiming 100% black PreGolfClubSaga and he won’t be PostGolfClubSaga.  Kobe is still Kobe. Ice T, Ice T. Magic Johnson won’t change tomorrow. Find something else to focus on. Takes too much to hate one people who aren’t as black as you.

Iconic Figure/Endorsements:

Once again if you are upset because Tiger was supposed to be a good role model for your kids – Newsflash: your kids are already FUCKED (couldn’t hold that one back). If they were on their way to being screw ups/cheaters/bad golfers etc, it is YOUR fault as a parent, not Tiger’s. Stop looking for someone else to blame and focus on your own household.

Message to Tiger:

Do whatever you have to do to fix your home, avoid the interviews and please don’t feed into this bullshit. You are still are great golfer and continue to perfect your game.  You will be loved for golf and I still won’t care about your personal life unless you start  f*cking little kids with golf clubs.

Case #2: The White House Party Crashers:

This one is pretty simple….

For the Secret Service:

SHAME ON YOU. You FAILED. This is the POTUS (just learned this term few weeks ago…..now I am forcing myself to use it) we are talking about, not crashing a Hugh Hefner bunny party. That being said….let the Secret Service and Dept. of Homeland Security figure out how to do better. Hopefully the POTUS will use this opportunity to address HIS OWN protection.  Do we want the Secret Service to come give a bunch of statements about what they will do to fix this situation? I hope not, because it’s the SECRET service.  I do not NEED to know what they do and despite the media’s watering tongues for info, you shouldn’t either….Just keep the (Vice)POTUS and their families out of harms way.

Message to the Salahi’s:

I hope your asses join the Balloon Boy family in jail for between 3-5 years…..no more – no less.  The justice system needs scapegoats to teach American’s a lesson.  The attention whoring needs to stop somewhere.  There is only so much you can do to chase your 15 mins of fame.  Stick to youtube, twitter, sex tapes and faux-reality shows.  When you start depleting resources of the public (ex. Mobilizing and entire state’s police/fire/EMT services) then you should be punished for it.

In Conclusion:

Hopefully this is an example to the rest of us on how the American Media is turning us into a bunch of idiots — from the ones that sit and watch RIDICULOUS reality TV Shows, actually dial in to vote for contestants, actually go out and audition and even worse subject ourselves to it  — that getting an education and living a ‘normal’ life is not a thing of the past. 15 minutes of fame is exactly what it is because all that tabloid money won’t buy you happiness. Don’t get me wrong….I have no problem w/ youtube, sensible reality shows, tabloid news etc, we all need a little comedy in our lives (I know I do) but when you are turning to supposed ‘NEWS CHANNELS’ and this is what they are throwing in your face and you sit there and watch it…….please GO PLAX YOURSELF!!!!

I heard a rumor that today was ‘World Aids Day’. If you turn on your Idiot Box today, tune to CNN and actual real life issues like deadly infectious diseases, wars/world peace, hunger crisis, undereducated kids etc aren’t been discussed ……TURN THE SHIT OFF!!!

***I am actually upset I took 15 mins of my day to write and post this but: 1. I don’t claim to be a real journalist and 2. my little blog post does not compare to the fellatio fest of the American Media hype***

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When it comes to cable news morning shows, each of the three major networks have their own style and blend.  CNN for the most part is the responsible station that while they still make mistakes, are pretty fair and balanced, albeit boring.  Fox News is the class clowns of the News world and I honestly think that deep down inside even they don’t take themselves seriously.  MSNBC, while it has great evening programs, probably have the worse morning show.  Yes, its worse than Fox.  I can view Fox & Friends as entertainment and not to be taken seriously.  Morning Joe on MSNBC however is hosted by two idiots that think they have original thoughts when in actuality they are just a couple of idiots.  Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough are painful to watch in the morning.  But this morning it was particularly painful because the spawn of evil Sith Lord Darth Cheney (Liz Cheney) was on to defend her daddy’s decision to speak out against the current Administration’s stance on torture.

I knew it was going to be bad when Joe Scarborough, who wasn’t in studio, called in just to help defend the red herring arguments that Liz Cheney was using.  It’s like Scarborough has dog ears and republican bullshit is the whistle that only he can hear.  Here’s the illogical arguments that Liz Cheney and Joe Scarborough, along with Dick Cheney and a host of other republican morons, are using to defend torture:

1.  It’s not torture

This was the first argument used back when this topic came up when George Bush was still in office.  It’s not torture, its “harsh interrogation techniques.”  This has to be the most juvenile argument I’ve ever heard.  Its like when you were in the car with your sibling and you put your finger as close to their face as possible and when they said “stop touching me” you’d respond “I’m not touching you.”  Sure, compared to some ancient Medieval torture methods like the rack or removing someone’s internal organs one by one when they are still alive, waterboarding seems pretty tame.  But its still torture.  This is like when Whitney Houston was like “I’m too rich to do crack…I do cocaine…I’m not hooked on drugs.”  WTF?  This redefinition is nothing new for these fools, I’m just mad that news hosts like Mika and Joe let them get away with it.  Remember, these same people trying to redefine torture also later said “Well, even IF it was torture…the treatment of these terrorist prisoners isn’t covered under the Geneva Convention because they aren’t Prisoners of War but “enemy combatants”.  Are you kidding me?  That is absurd.

2.  It worked

The most recent claim now being spearheaded by Dick Cheney and his daughter (who Joe Scarborough is obviously infatuated with ) is that these methods worked and therefore we should continue them.  Since when did this become the issue?  Of course torture produces results.  You water board someone 183 times in a few months and they’re going to talk.  That’s not the issue.  The issue is, is torturing someone the morally right thing to do AND does publicly supporting it benefit us in the long run.  Think about it.  When there’s a serial rapist, the police aren’t allowed to take him into the interrogation room and waterboard him until he confesses.  Our laws don’t allow that.  It would be a lot easier for President Obama to get his policies through if he murdered his political opponents.  Again, I don’t see anyone asking Robert Gibbs when the President plans on getting rid of his Eric Cantor problem.  These things are things that happen in other countries though.  I did a story last week about a pregnant British woman that might face the firing squad in Laos, which hosts a really inhumane prison.  The British and some American groups are outraged.  Yet we allow Dick Cheney and hosts like Joe Scarborough to come on TV and say that because torture works, we should keep doing it.

Here’s the problem, in the short term torture gets your results.  But in the long run, the collateral damage you do far outweighs any benefit.  When your policy on handling prisoners goes around the Geneva Conventions and the policy is to torture, then you’ve made it difficult to make any kind of political solution to the terrorism problem.  Let’s not mince words here.  Waterboarding is torture.  Forcing someone to go through simulated drowning isn’t a harsh interrogation technique, it’s torture.  Plain and simple.  If ass clowns like Dick or Liz Cheney think that because it works we should do it, then I don’t see why they have such a problem calling it what it is.

And I’ll leave with this note.  If torture is such an effective technique, how come in places like Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and other Middle Eastern countries that support torturing detainees, how come they still produce terrorists.  How come terrorists still plan attacks from these countries?  If torture is such an effective policy, wouldn’t there be zero crime in those countries?  Of course its foolish to come up with such conclusions…but its no more foolish and idiotic than the ones the former Vice President and his daughter are using.

The theme for this week is obviously “Retarded”.  I can’t help it that seemingly normally developed human beings have been deliberately ignoring the rational parts of their brains over the last week.  I blame it all on the Pope.  Every since his retarded comment that condom use in Africa is making the HIV/AIDS epidemic there WORSE, the rest of the world seems to have tried to overcompensate by trying to “out retard” the Pope.  I guess you can’t have the supreme leader of an entire religion looking like the biggest retard in the World.  Something just seems blasphemous about that.  Anyway, the latest battalion of retarded Storm Troopers in the War on Sensibility is, no surprise here, the media.  I know the media likes to claim that everyone likes to pick on them in times of crisis, but quite frankly, they make it so easy, with the big ass “Kick Us…We’re Idiots” signs they wear on their backs.  Let’s face it, when you ask Karl Rove to give his opinion on what President Obama needs to do, you’re asking to not be taken seriously.  Asking Karl Rove to analyze President Obama’s success is like asking the Devil for life instructions on how to get to Heaven.  If you don’t report the opposite of what he says as the truth, then talking to him is pointless.

The media’s idea of “Putting the President’s feet to the fire” is asking single minded, narrowly focused questions that don’t see the big picture.  To be fair, 8 years of a functional retard answering your questions probably does force you to become one-dimensional and even studs your journalistic growth.  I understand that the press needs time to fully comprehend and adjust to the fact that we now have a President that speaks in complete sentences and tries to explain his plans instead of just going up to the podium, smirking and saying “Can’t answer your questions because of National Security.”  However, when you have members of the press like Mika Brzezinski, co-host on Morning Joe, saying things like “It scares me that the President is so calm and relaxed when talking about the economic crisis”, I really wonder if the retardation epidemic in the American Media has reached a point of no return.  What the hell does Brzezinski want from the President?  Should he get up there and start quivering and shaking, saying “I don’t know WHAT THE FUCK WE’RE GOING TO DO!!!!  Save yourselves, buy foreign!!!!”  Has the media become this brain dead that when we have a leader that remains steady and focused…we complain that he’s steady and focused.  Isn’t that what separates leaders from followers? Leaders confidently go head first into a bad situation, focused and with a plan…while followers scream from the sideline “WTF are you doing??? Are you crazy?  Don’t go in there!!!!”

But this isn’t the only idiotic complain the press has had about a President that has been in office for only 2 months (Forget the fact that he’s already been more open and accessible than Bush was the last 4 years).  The latest moronic complaint has been that the President is trying to do too many things at once.  Sure, everyone agrees that Health Care and Greener, more efficient Energy is needed in the long run to transform our economy…but damn the President for trying to do that all now.  This is exactly like when John McCain tried to cancel that debate before of the economic crisis and Obama responded with the “The President is supposed to be able to handle multiple things at once.”  Right now, our economy is broken.  President Obama is trying to fix it…not just the problem here and now, but the long term problems as well.  It’s like when you take your car to get new tires and when they take the old tires off they see that you also need new brakes.  Instead of putting the new tires on with the failing brakes, the best thing to do is take care of it all at once.  Why?  Because chances are…once you get the new tires, you’re going to forget about how urgent it is to get new brakes.  Not only that, but sure, it make cost extra money that you don’t want to spend now, but it’ll save you from having to pay out for an accident (or worth, Death) when your brakes fail  Same thing with the President’s solution for the economy.  The notion that the President has to put all his focus on fixing the Banking system and Wall Street is the same tunnel-vision view that President Bush had on a number of issues and ultimately got us in this mess.   The media seems to love to pile on to the President for doing too much, even though most admit that all of what the President is doing is interconnected.  It just doesn’t make any sense.

For the 60 days he’s been in office, President Obama has had to deal with the following charges from the media:

1.  He’s too frank

2.  He’s too serious

3.  He’s not hopeful enough

4.  He’s too hopeful

5.  He’s punch drunk (Because apparently he smiled and laughed too much during the 60 minutes interview)

6.  He’s too “professorial” i.e.  He’s too intelligent

7.  He’s not giving enough substance

8.  He’s too boring (when he tries to give substance…sorry folks, but economics isn’t exciting)

9.  He’s over exposed (Apparently even though they are frightened about socialism, the media longs for the days when the President did what he wanted and didn’t try to answer questions).

10.  He’s too relaxed and calm in a crisis (Seriously…WTF is wrong with that?)

And there’s plenty more that would take me all day to go through.  The media just doesn’t seem to understand what they are dealing with when it comes to President Obama.  This is clear from the exchange between Ed Henry and President Obama yesterday.  CNN claims that Obama showed a “flash of anger” when he told Henry that the reason it took the White House a couple extra days to respond to the AIG bonus fiasco was because he “likes to know what he’s talking about before he speaks.”  That wasn’t anger, that was just the truth.  Don’t believe me, look for yourself (and then see the way Ed Henry and Anderson Cooper try to imagine up anger from Obama).  Clearly Henry was trying to save face from the fact that Obama’s answer actually made sense.  We’re not dealing with an idiot like Bush that went off the cuff saying dumb shit every other day and who had a super secretive, power grabbing Vice President in Dick Cheney and a slimy advisor like Karl Rove.  Instead of rushing out and opening his mouth about things he doesn’t understand or know about, President Obama likes to take a few extra days, especially with something not as urgent or critical as bonuses, before he speaks.  That’s called “intelligence.”  I know it’s been missing in the oval office for the last 8 years, but I expect the media to recognize it when they see it.

I guess it’s too much to ask for critical thinking from the media right now.  They had 8 years of covering the “Special Olympics of Presidencies”, they need some time to adjust to covering true professionals.  No wonder more and more young people are turning to comedians for their news.

I hope the Fox News, MSNBC and CNN producers, pundits, analysis, reporters, interns and everyone else was watching last night.  Jon Stewart showed them how to do their jobs.  Last night’s Daily Show wasn’t your typical show.  After a short 5 minute clip about Madoff, Stewart went right to the interview with Jim Cramer.  What followed was probably the most uncomfortable 20 minutes of television I’ve ever seen.  I loved it.  There were several things that Stewart did that I thought were brilliant.  First off, he made it clear on several occasions that this wasn’t personal.  He repeatedly said that his beef was with the entire network of CNBC and other financial networks who he considered to be part of the problem and not just with Cramer.  I also thought Stewart did a great job of explaining why us, the regular folks, are so mad at people like Jim Cramer and networks like CNBC.  You bring a CEO on your network and you take their word and their word alone that their company is doing fine?  Come on.  Didn’t Enron and WorldCom teach us that CEOs lie?  Instead of taking their word for it, how about you do research and confront them with the facts?

My favorite part was when Stewart asked why a show that misleads people about stocks is necessary and Cramer said “There’s a market for it.”  Stewart replied:

“There’s also a market for cocaine and hookers”

For 20 minutes Stewart didn’t let Cramer wiggle out of the fact that CNBC as a whole failed the American people.  Gambling with other people’s money and then saying “No one could see this financial crisis coming” is like playing Russian Roulette with a pistol with all but 1 bullet in it and then acting surprise when someone shoots themselves in the head.

I predict that Cramer has 6 months left with CNBC.  He’s been exposed as a fraud along with the rest of CNBC.  Either he’ll be replaced or his show will finally go from some crazy ass entertainment to some serious show about stocks.  You might think that’s far fetched but ask ex-Crossfire hosts James Carville and Tucker Carlson what an attacking Jon Stewart can do to your career.  I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.  It’s said when the voice of reason in journalism is a comedian.