Look out! He's gonna explode. (Plus update.)
Holy Christ, it's hopeless! First, it's the psycho Swift Boat Liars for Character Assassination. Now it's Memogate.
Did President Bush dodge service? Are the incriminating memos frauds? The media certainly won't help anyone find the truth--that's bad for advertising revenue.
What is lost in this is the American voter. We need some information to help us make up our minds about WHO'S GOING TO RUN THE COUNTRY.
These matters of dispute aren't impossible to verify--so, go do some damn reporting, journalists. Speak some truth to power, you worthless soap-sellers. Don't tell me you're airing both viewpoints--find the evidence, evaluate the evidence, report the evidence. Not what makes the best story. Not what gets the most viewers.
The point is so obvious that even USA Today gets it. Find out what's going on!
And if you can't, if you simply can't find a single person who can verify Bush's service... If you can't come to a weighing of the evidence on Kerry's service record... If you can't tell us what we need to know, supported by logical stories, and credible evidence--well then, what good are you? Ask yourselves what the Fourth Estate has become--mere lap dogs to the sirens of celebrity, wealth and privilege?
It's crazy shit like this that drives people to vote for Nader. I'm so disgusted by politicians, the press, and the current level of discourse that I want to throw up.
Nausea in 2004. Now there's a campaign slogan that will resonate with the masses.
UPDATE: Hey, I'n not the only one--there's this guy, too.
Did President Bush dodge service? Are the incriminating memos frauds? The media certainly won't help anyone find the truth--that's bad for advertising revenue.
What is lost in this is the American voter. We need some information to help us make up our minds about WHO'S GOING TO RUN THE COUNTRY.
These matters of dispute aren't impossible to verify--so, go do some damn reporting, journalists. Speak some truth to power, you worthless soap-sellers. Don't tell me you're airing both viewpoints--find the evidence, evaluate the evidence, report the evidence. Not what makes the best story. Not what gets the most viewers.
The point is so obvious that even USA Today gets it. Find out what's going on!
And if you can't, if you simply can't find a single person who can verify Bush's service... If you can't come to a weighing of the evidence on Kerry's service record... If you can't tell us what we need to know, supported by logical stories, and credible evidence--well then, what good are you? Ask yourselves what the Fourth Estate has become--mere lap dogs to the sirens of celebrity, wealth and privilege?
It's crazy shit like this that drives people to vote for Nader. I'm so disgusted by politicians, the press, and the current level of discourse that I want to throw up.
Nausea in 2004. Now there's a campaign slogan that will resonate with the masses.
UPDATE: Hey, I'n not the only one--there's this guy, too.
2 Comments:
Bush did dodge service, the memos are fake though. The memos are "kerned," which means that the letters are not truetype. On a typewriter, all of the letters are the same distance apart. On most wordprocessors, when the letters have shapes that allow them to fit together, the wordprocessor moves them together. The classic example is capital T and lower case o. A word processor will put the o under the T: To. This makes it easier to read. The memos have this. They were not done on a typewriter. The 70s really only had typewriters. The memos are fake. It really doesn't affect my decision.
Is it a "youthful indiscretion" if you're black and poor? Or is it then just "possesion with intent to distribute"?
And, Malcontent, Clinton had Memogate. This is Typefacegate. A subset of Typefacegate is Kerninggate. It really has elevated the discourse to the point that I typed this. Shit like Typefacegate makes we want to chop off my hand and attach a chainsaw (a la Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, and Army of Darkness) and then swing wildly at those who perpetuate this type of "scandal." I'm mainly looking in Drudge's direction, but the rest know who they are as well.
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