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Sunday, March 18, 2007

Shorter USA Today

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NEWSFLASH!!! - Al Gore is a Big Phony!


And the people who work for USA Today aren't?

For the ultimate in butt-kissing hypocrisy, it takes a journalist. Any day now I expect to read some screed about how Al breathes out carbon dioxide. ("A major contributor to global warming!")

posted by Realist @ 11:08 AM  

6 Comments:

  • At 10:52 PM, Blogger Anntichrist S. Coulter said…

    The day that that --- dreck hit the stands is, I think, the high-water mark on the dumbing-down of Murka.

    Shit, even the local republicunt newspaper has resorted to smaller pages, less news, and color pik-tewers to lure in the sheeple.

    "Journalism" has become as "quaint" a concept as Chili Bean's opinion of the Constitution and the Geneva Conventions.

     

  • At 5:10 PM, Blogger Realist said…

    You have to wonder sometimes if it ever really was a noble profession, or if it was just more of the same ol' bullshit gilded to look important.

     

  • At 8:35 PM, Blogger Anntichrist S. Coulter said…

    Wellllll, I was young & naive enough to believe so when I went to journalism school, but eventually, enough of that "old boys' club" bullshit about how "girls" could only write the obits, the society page, and "human interest shit" was enough to get me to switch schools to a film program.

    ...and we see how well THAT worked out, don't we?

    I grew up in the '70s, when Woodward & Bernstein still meant something, when journalism and publicity were supposed to help people save the world... *sigh* Of course, back in the '70s, GERALDO was a journalist...

    I feel old.

    And yes, I know about the Hearst era of yellow journalism, about the pulp crap sensationalist racism that "justified" the eminent domain genocide as the West was "settled," and I know how every war since the 1776 was pushed & promoted by "journalists." But there were a coupla good ones here and there.

    I got "Good Night & Good Luck" from Netflix, just to depress myself further. Now I just gotta sit down and watch it.

     

  • At 4:37 AM, Blogger Realist said…

    I'm not saying there were no decent people who were journalists. Only that - much like doctors - the idea that the entire profession consists of selfless do-gooders doesn't stand up to close examination.

    Did you love it that some reporter threw Tony Snow's comments on executive privilege from back in the Clinton days in his face at yesterday's press conference? Of course, he claims the current situation is TOTALLY DIFFERENT.

    The next time some GOP cunt says anything to me about ethics or morality, I'm going to spit right square in his or her face.

     

  • At 6:38 PM, Blogger Realist said…

    I didn't really like Clinton or Gore either one. Slick didn't impress me a bit, (I always thought of him as GOP-lite, like Lieberman) and I've despised Gore since he and Tipper pulled that PMRC shit on the Dead Kennedys.

    But even I got to where I was like, "C'mon, that's enough - he doesn't deserve this" towards the end of Clinton's term. Looking back, he wasn't a half-bad President, especially compared to most Republicans.

    Same with Gore. Much as I hated him, there comes a point where enough is enough.

     

  • At 8:12 PM, Blogger Anntichrist S. Coulter said…

    Welllll, when Clinton came in, I was naive enough to believe the marketing. Probably because he's southern, etc. But as much good as he did, he kinda blew it all out of the water with his excuse for "foreign policy" --- selective humanity, only *some* countries were good enough to receive Murkin aid, but not all, etc. And, y'know, he was a REALLY SLOPPY WHORE. But yes, they pissed away billions of dollars and a big hunk of our constitution with that witch-hunt.

    I still think that Al Gore has potential, but no, I'll never forgive fucking TIPPER for the PMRC shit. Who in the fuck did she think she WAS, anyway??!?!? And how fucking lame do you have to be that Dee Snider looks ELOQUENT, compared to you?!???! No, I'm not a fan of Dee's, especially since he got a radio show, the right-wing Jersey jerk. ZAPPA, on the other hand... *sigh* I miss Frank. And I still love the mighty DK --- have a "Holiday In Cambodia" poster in my shoebox-sized living room.

    And what in the hell is it going to take for somebody to finally institutionalize John McCain? He really has gone 'round the bend --- I saw him chanting some jingoistic bullshit about never leaving Iraq, 'cause the tarrists will come here, blah blah blah, and it was so fucking pathetic. I think that he snapped the day that he hugged Dumbya in public, but it was more along the lines of him just going into rigor-mortis, while Dumbya hugged him and grinned like a possum eating shit. Arms hanging down, face buried (possibly in what tattered remnants of shame that he may still possess?) in Dumbya's shoulder, away from the cameras --- I think that the last thread of humanity and sanity that John McCain had was splintered into a billion shards that day (much like fiberoptic cable in a blender), and he is goooooooonnnnnnne.

    It's sad, really. Not that he had a helluva lot of spine or character to start with, from what I've seen, but to just watch him disintegrating on television... Somebody should put him out of his misery. It's not funny insanity, like watching Ross Perot's ears flap, it's really pitiful.

     

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