Mad Donkey, Media Rant

This is the forum post that started it all. I just HAD to come up with a way to recognize this absolutely delicious rant. It came out of nowhere. The author was understandably disappointed when tuning in to the news after Al Gore's speech at NYU offerring a comprehensive, forward-looking approach to tackling the problems he so clearly documented in the movie and book  "An Inconvenient Truth". While the rap on that effort in the mainstream media has been to quote critics saying "but he doesn't give solutions", when he did exactly that, they cover the latest "Tickle me Elmo" doll!
In response to a commentary posted on   AlGore.org    about the lack of media coverage of Al Gore’s NYU speech

mad donkey, 9/21/06

I can't help getting angry at these media. I am so mad at these media, because they are like a bad set of tonsils. They are here to protect this Republic, and every generation before them took that responsibility seriously... They have done poorly, but nothing like this. Nothing even close to this. All these people do is sit around and laugh and giggle... Play with dolls (did you notice that Elmo got more coverage than Al Gore's major speech?). They aren't journalists at all. They are just advertising executives, and they never miss a chance to sell us down the river. I do blame George Bush and the Republicans for where we are, but they couldn't have done it without these "Romper-room journalists" in the main stream.

They can deny it all they want, but if the "watchdog" was any better than Barney Fife... Maybe we wouldn't need to quadruple the amount of FBI agents required to sheriff our law makers on Capitol Hill. ; Fer cryin out loud... the corruption is so bad that whole d*mn place reeks, and the mainstream just sits behind their freakin' desks worrying about their make-up and who's going to win some stupid Reality show, or who gets to ride in a fighter jet, or how neat this new toy (from hasbro, selling at Toy'sRus for a real bargain price) is. Its disgusting.

Argh ! It just makes me seethe...

The Republicans get elected talking about being uniters, bringing credibility back to Washington, ending the polarity... and what was that other word they pulled out of their little eighties "Dayminder?"... OH YEAH! I remember it now...

"ACCOUNTABILITY"

EVERYONE has to exercise "Personal Accountability"... In eighties speak that means we have to "Get tough on" unaccountability, or those who exhibit an unaccountable "set of lifestyle choices." You know... the culture of poverty (you can't say that unless you put your nose way high in the air so people can see that you have the star on your belly properly displayed).
Meanwhile... Way up in the clouds...

Condi: Oh, Georgie... Did you see that memo about the planes n' the buildings and that tall, skinny guy with the funny beard?
George: Why do you ask about that...? I think I wiped my ass with it after I ran out of amendments on my Bill O Rights.
Condi: Oh, dear... It seems the media thinks it was important... What ever shall we do? (flutters eyelashes)
George: Don't get your panties in a bunch, hon...  Just tell 'em Bill Clinton did it... If that don't work, we'll blow-up Iraq

At this point, I think that the reason that media consolidation is so damaging, is because the "big whigs" must be recruiting "village idiots" like Tucker Carlson in some secret experimental cloning chamber that takes inbreeding and compounds it tenfold. What the hell did America do to get saddled with these babbling idiots, and giggling, ditsy, doe-eyed, blinking morons who have sat on their hands, their tongues, their brains, their integrity... everything but their pedigree, ego and pay-check, while people like Grover Norquist, Ralph Reed, Abrhamoff, the "Dukester"... were carrying our country out of the oval office in duffel-bags? Good God... Talk about throwing a watchdog a bone...

New Orleans is "Norquist's Bath Tub." He said he wanted a Federal Government so weak he could drown it in a bath tub, and he left it floating face down in the "Big Easy." But the Mainstream won't find the corpse unless it rises like Lazarus and bites them on their fat, lazy, celebrity obsessed, sell-out asses.

I am sick of the media telling us how crappy everything is, and how everyone agrees that we're swirling around the rim of the toilet... But the media sits there and stares like mute morons about things like global warming and tobacco and media consolidation for thirty five years... You say how did happen? They shrug their shoulders and say something touching about the free press... Then they publish garbage from big business propaganda mills and say "Oh wow... can you believe those dummies still don't get it? How could they possibly still think we found weapons of mass destruction? It seems like half of America still thinks that Saddam and Osama were married on a moonlit night in the desert. They can't name three Supreme Court Judges, but they can name all of the Three Stooges." Big surprise. Blame Bill Clinton. Blame the Liberals. Blame the Democrats. Blame the schools... Don't blame America ... Just blame those parts. If you think it might be the unholy alliance between money politics and a culture of aristocracy among the "Hyperwealthy"... Well... Um....

"Here! Look at Elmo! See Elmo dance? Isn't Elmo funny...?”