I have been steaming all day since watching The Situation Room on CNN with Wolf Blitzer as the host. He completely pissed me off. I'm getting so sick of these piece of crap jerkoffs performing their sensationalist reporting to secure ratings. Blitzer has been walking a very fine line for a while. But today, he stepped over that line in his reporting. Please, read this one post, if you read any of them.
The main story that you heard all day long on the news was about Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. He is being charged with several infractions - one of them: trying to sell a seat into the Senate. What pissed me off was that during the reporting of this story, Wolf Blitzer, along with many other reporters sensationalized the story by reporting this story somewhat like this:
"...a scandal today in which Rod Blagojevich was trying to sell President-Elect Barack Obama's Senate seat".
Blagojevich had a short list of candidates that he thought he could sell the seat to. One of these was Jesse Jackson Jr.. And while the investigator specifically said that this investigation does NOT include Obama or Jackson Jr., Blizter had the following video clips:
Each time they referred to the Senate seat, it was said with Obama's name included in some way, as if he were somehow involved. And what really pissed me off about The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer was when he had a video clip on one of his massive screens behind him. The caption under the video said "Corruption Case"...and of course the video was NOT of Blagojevich. It was a video of Barack Obama. The video clip that he had on his show with Jesse Jackson Jr. had a caption under it which read: Senator Seat Scandal.
Blitzer could have spent time on his show reporting this news correctly. He could have been saying that Obama and Jackson weren't being investigated - that in fact, the investigator specifically said that these two were NOT under investigation. Instead, Blitzer tried to tie them to Blagojevich as much as he could. He could have also talked about the other things that Blagojevich was under suspicion to have done. But here's what he talked about instead: Blagojevich's and his wife's use of profanity!
Seriously, I would have prefered to have heard about the shakedown of...wow, I don't even remember what the charge was...because Blitzer, Rick Sanchez and others talked about Blagojevich and his wife swearing instead!
When I was in college, I used to say that the "f-word" should be spelled with a PH and end in a Q. You know, Quack, Quick...they both have a "ck" sound. So, in complying with the Terms of Use of Blogger.com, and still expressing myself: Rick Sanchez, Wolf Blitzer: GO PHUQ YOURSELVES!
You make me sick. Seriously. I was literally feeling sick to my stomach while you reported this story all day long because of your phuqing bullchit. You can suck my @ss. You call into question the integrity of these two men while at the same time compromising your own.
And while you could be providing more information on the story, you instead spend time reporting on the "cursing" of Blagojevich's wife. How she's a "Foul-Mouthed First Lady", her cursing, swearing and blah blah blah. Oh, what was that about the actual story? I'm sorry, I didn't hear it because you two (along with others) were too busy talking about the swearing.
I sure hope you weren't too offended by all that _foul_ language. Now, just run on back to Mayberry and snuggle up with Aunt Bea.. prudes...I actually had a different P-word there to begin with.
That's all I'm writing for now. I just can't even deal with this. Honestly, I'm so pissed off with my options for news outlets. I get CNN or nothing. I really want to be able to hear what's going on in the world...but I can't stand all this god damned sensationalism by the news anchors.
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Obama Cabinet & Media-Sponsored Racism
Here it is, the end of the day. That means it's time to start complaining almost endlessly again. I thought I'd try something new tonight though. Instead of putting several different posts up, I thought it best if I try to sum everything up into a single post for a single day. We'll have to see how well that works out. Okay, let's get started:
I've been listening to news anchors and various interviewees that they seem to have made deals with, as if they've said "I'll let you on my show to help sell your book if you back up my idiotic idea". One of my biggest complaints about what they've been saying today is the nomination of Bill Richardson to the post of Secretary of Commerce. I'm not even sure how many of this moronic anchors I've heard ask, or say "Isn't this nomination like a consolation prize to him for not getting Secretary of State" or "Bill Richardson's nomination to this post was an afterthought by President-Elect Obama because he realized that he didn't have any Latinos picked". Give me a break!
I am so sick of these jack offs trying to create controversy where there is none. It's unbelievable! I personally agree that Hilary Clinton would have been more well suited to Health and Human Services and Bill Richardson to Secretary of State and someone else for Secretary of Commerce. But, if anyone thinks Obama is just picking people at random for these positions or that he somehow felt compelled to nominate Richardson for Commerce because he'd forgotten or that he felt somehow required to appoint a Latino really needs to smack themselves for not thinking.
But, instead of simply reporting who Obama is choosing, so many in the media need to create controversy; to sensationalize everything. I will never understand where in our history reporting the news took such a turn. You know, the main source of where I see racism in our society today, and for nearly as long as I can remember, is from our media. Here's another example of what I mean from the news today:
There was a story about a cemetery getting moved. This is not anything new; cemeteries get moved all the time. But because this one has the graves of black slaves from long ago, it's a massively racist and offensive thing. I HATE racism. I wish it would go away...but our damn media won't let it! Every time our society takes a step forward, the media drudges up some controversy to stir up emotions between races. Seriously, can't we all just get a bong? er...get along.
Well, whichever.
But, back to the cabinet nominations: I want to also say how annoyed I am by all of this crap with people saying "Obama was running on a platform of change, but look how he's nominating people from the Clinton days! That's not change!" I think I know where they picked up that second sentence.
Come on Barack, you should know better. Go down and pick up some day workers, or people from the unemployment line to work for minimum wage. Or even better, get a cabinet full of Sarah Palins.
I don't know about everyone else, but I'm sick of having people in my government who has no idea what they're doing. I certainly have not enjoyed the last 8 years. I'm also sick of people in the government who don't know how to act with leaders and officials of other countries. Again, look to the last 8 years.
I know that to a certain extent, you must have people in the government with experience. It's the leadership at the top that provides the "change" that was promised. While not all of the players have changed, it's the man at the top who approves the moves. To suggest that every single person in appointed must have never been in government before is just ridiculous. It's quite obvious that these people are simply looking for any reason to complain... they are comprised of two groups -- Media and Republicans. Please, wise up.
Now, a completely unrelated topic, but one that really pisses me off -- A loser hockey player, Sean Avery, (again, LOSER) was referring to his very talented ex, Elisha Cuthbert when he said this: "I just want to comment on how it's become like a common thing in the NHL for guys to fall in love with my sloppy seconds." It was a best, a very crude comment. I hope she sues him. And again, this story wouldn't have been a story if the media would drop it. But, they have to repeat it...and repeat it...and repeat it.
The media knows no shame. They run stories like this over and over again only causing more trouble. Instead of reporting informational stories, they run smears. And, they do it all under the guise of spreading knowledge and shield themselves with the First Amendment. I think that the First Amendment should have been chisled into stone..and I think the media personalities should be pelted repeatedly with this stone when they keep spreading smear stories like this.
I've been listening to news anchors and various interviewees that they seem to have made deals with, as if they've said "I'll let you on my show to help sell your book if you back up my idiotic idea". One of my biggest complaints about what they've been saying today is the nomination of Bill Richardson to the post of Secretary of Commerce. I'm not even sure how many of this moronic anchors I've heard ask, or say "Isn't this nomination like a consolation prize to him for not getting Secretary of State" or "Bill Richardson's nomination to this post was an afterthought by President-Elect Obama because he realized that he didn't have any Latinos picked". Give me a break!
I am so sick of these jack offs trying to create controversy where there is none. It's unbelievable! I personally agree that Hilary Clinton would have been more well suited to Health and Human Services and Bill Richardson to Secretary of State and someone else for Secretary of Commerce. But, if anyone thinks Obama is just picking people at random for these positions or that he somehow felt compelled to nominate Richardson for Commerce because he'd forgotten or that he felt somehow required to appoint a Latino really needs to smack themselves for not thinking.
But, instead of simply reporting who Obama is choosing, so many in the media need to create controversy; to sensationalize everything. I will never understand where in our history reporting the news took such a turn. You know, the main source of where I see racism in our society today, and for nearly as long as I can remember, is from our media. Here's another example of what I mean from the news today:
There was a story about a cemetery getting moved. This is not anything new; cemeteries get moved all the time. But because this one has the graves of black slaves from long ago, it's a massively racist and offensive thing. I HATE racism. I wish it would go away...but our damn media won't let it! Every time our society takes a step forward, the media drudges up some controversy to stir up emotions between races. Seriously, can't we all just get a bong? er...get along.
Well, whichever.
But, back to the cabinet nominations: I want to also say how annoyed I am by all of this crap with people saying "Obama was running on a platform of change, but look how he's nominating people from the Clinton days! That's not change!" I think I know where they picked up that second sentence.
Come on Barack, you should know better. Go down and pick up some day workers, or people from the unemployment line to work for minimum wage. Or even better, get a cabinet full of Sarah Palins.
I don't know about everyone else, but I'm sick of having people in my government who has no idea what they're doing. I certainly have not enjoyed the last 8 years. I'm also sick of people in the government who don't know how to act with leaders and officials of other countries. Again, look to the last 8 years.
I know that to a certain extent, you must have people in the government with experience. It's the leadership at the top that provides the "change" that was promised. While not all of the players have changed, it's the man at the top who approves the moves. To suggest that every single person in appointed must have never been in government before is just ridiculous. It's quite obvious that these people are simply looking for any reason to complain... they are comprised of two groups -- Media and Republicans. Please, wise up.
Now, a completely unrelated topic, but one that really pisses me off -- A loser hockey player, Sean Avery, (again, LOSER) was referring to his very talented ex, Elisha Cuthbert when he said this: "I just want to comment on how it's become like a common thing in the NHL for guys to fall in love with my sloppy seconds." It was a best, a very crude comment. I hope she sues him. And again, this story wouldn't have been a story if the media would drop it. But, they have to repeat it...and repeat it...and repeat it.
The media knows no shame. They run stories like this over and over again only causing more trouble. Instead of reporting informational stories, they run smears. And, they do it all under the guise of spreading knowledge and shield themselves with the First Amendment. I think that the First Amendment should have been chisled into stone..and I think the media personalities should be pelted repeatedly with this stone when they keep spreading smear stories like this.
Monday, December 1, 2008
Flipin' Lou Dobbs Rant
Not too long ago, I wrote about how much Lou Dobbs has been pissing me off; how he's been flip-flopping on every issue. Once upon a time, he had a set group of opinions. All of this changed when John McCain became the presumptive Republican nominee. At that point, Lou went on the attack, hitting Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama every chance he got.
It didn't seem to matter that Lou had once held an opposite opinion. He simply changed his point of view to match that of McCain. Now that the election is over, and his boy, McCain has lost, he's once again backtracking on every issue to his original positions. Here's an example:
The economy - Dobbs had been saying for some time, as the rest of the country had, that our economy was in real trouble. The inflation rate was on the rise, wages had become stagnant, our industries were crashing as jobs moved overseas, and the infamous mortgage meltdown had begun. Lou asked, as the rest of the nation did, "Where is the governmental oversight? We have a real problem here!"This position he held changed immediately upon Mike Huckabee losing his chance at the Republican nomination and McCain securing enough delegates.
John McCain's chief economic adviser, Phil Gramm, stated in public that we were in a "Metal Recession" and that we had simply become a "country of whiners" - meaning, of course, that our economy was not really having problems, but that we were just complaining. McCain himself even spoke these words; though I'd only seen that clip like twice after McCain became the nominee - such a pet of the media.
Lou Dobbs wasted no time in falling in line with McCain. When the national media picked up on news of the mortgage meltdown and Henry Paulson came out of the woodwork seeking support for a $700 billion "bailout" for the lenders, Lou countered saying that there really wasn't a problem with our economy -- instead that Paulson, Ben Bernanke and the Bush administration were just "talking down the economy". By this, he meant that there was no problem with the national economy, but that these three sources were just using some scare tactics. Anything short of this criticism would have been to agree with Barack Obama and the Democratic party...thereby disagreeing with, and making, John McCain and the Republicans appear as they truly are -- out of touch with the ordinary people and ignorant on economic issues.
Today, 12/1/08, the official report has been released stating that we are in fact in a Recession. In fact, the U.S. has been in a recession since at least 12/07. But now that the election is over, Dobbs no longer has to support the idiotic positions of McCain. Lou has come out and stated that we're in a recession. Of course, he acts as though he's always said we were in a recession - that he never doubted it.
Frankly, I'm disgusted. It pisses me off that he is always so f'ing presumptuous. Lou, if you're reading this...You're a LIAR! You flip your opinions around to always appear as though you're all-knowledgeable, while never acknowledging that you've been wrong. Even worse, you lie about your motivations for your opinions. All in all, you're a scumbag!
Now if you want to see something pathetically representative of what I'm talking about, take a look at some clips of Lou Dobbs speaking about Barack Obama from the time of the general election. Then, check out the news today. He's fully supportive of Obama now. Hell, he's even calling for the national media to cut President-Elect Obama some slack.
In this, I'm fully behind Dobbs. Give Obama a chance and stop attacking him long before his job even begins calling his job a failure, as if the next 4-8 years have already passed. But, this definitely doesn't make up for all your lies and attacks of the last few months, Lou. You're still scum.
It didn't seem to matter that Lou had once held an opposite opinion. He simply changed his point of view to match that of McCain. Now that the election is over, and his boy, McCain has lost, he's once again backtracking on every issue to his original positions. Here's an example:
The economy - Dobbs had been saying for some time, as the rest of the country had, that our economy was in real trouble. The inflation rate was on the rise, wages had become stagnant, our industries were crashing as jobs moved overseas, and the infamous mortgage meltdown had begun. Lou asked, as the rest of the nation did, "Where is the governmental oversight? We have a real problem here!"This position he held changed immediately upon Mike Huckabee losing his chance at the Republican nomination and McCain securing enough delegates.
John McCain's chief economic adviser, Phil Gramm, stated in public that we were in a "Metal Recession" and that we had simply become a "country of whiners" - meaning, of course, that our economy was not really having problems, but that we were just complaining. McCain himself even spoke these words; though I'd only seen that clip like twice after McCain became the nominee - such a pet of the media.
Lou Dobbs wasted no time in falling in line with McCain. When the national media picked up on news of the mortgage meltdown and Henry Paulson came out of the woodwork seeking support for a $700 billion "bailout" for the lenders, Lou countered saying that there really wasn't a problem with our economy -- instead that Paulson, Ben Bernanke and the Bush administration were just "talking down the economy". By this, he meant that there was no problem with the national economy, but that these three sources were just using some scare tactics. Anything short of this criticism would have been to agree with Barack Obama and the Democratic party...thereby disagreeing with, and making, John McCain and the Republicans appear as they truly are -- out of touch with the ordinary people and ignorant on economic issues.
Today, 12/1/08, the official report has been released stating that we are in fact in a Recession. In fact, the U.S. has been in a recession since at least 12/07. But now that the election is over, Dobbs no longer has to support the idiotic positions of McCain. Lou has come out and stated that we're in a recession. Of course, he acts as though he's always said we were in a recession - that he never doubted it.
Frankly, I'm disgusted. It pisses me off that he is always so f'ing presumptuous. Lou, if you're reading this...You're a LIAR! You flip your opinions around to always appear as though you're all-knowledgeable, while never acknowledging that you've been wrong. Even worse, you lie about your motivations for your opinions. All in all, you're a scumbag!
Now if you want to see something pathetically representative of what I'm talking about, take a look at some clips of Lou Dobbs speaking about Barack Obama from the time of the general election. Then, check out the news today. He's fully supportive of Obama now. Hell, he's even calling for the national media to cut President-Elect Obama some slack.
In this, I'm fully behind Dobbs. Give Obama a chance and stop attacking him long before his job even begins calling his job a failure, as if the next 4-8 years have already passed. But, this definitely doesn't make up for all your lies and attacks of the last few months, Lou. You're still scum.
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