When the Press Died

The American Press, a free and independent Press, our safeguard against tyranny died in August 2005. It had been on life support all through the Reagan Administration and it took another twenty five years for the last gasping breaths to echo down the once proud chambers of Murrow Land. Remember how hungry Woodward and Bernstein were when they broke the Watergate news? Remember how proud you were that they followed every lead for you, for the country? Remember how feral and thirsty and unkempt Bernstein always looked in photographs? The same with Dustin Hoffman in the movie version? (Redford is always the picture of WASP cool.) History. All ancient history. Because in August 2005, ABC News anchorman Peter Jennings died. AND LEFT AN ESTATE VALUED AT MORE THAN 50 MILLION DOLLARS. Of course the mainstream media (MSM) isn't going to dig into the heinous and nefarious acts done in our name. THEY ARE PART OF THE PERMANENT GOVERNMENT. When you've got 50 MILLION DOLLARS you don't report on Ronald Reagan. YOU ARE RONALD REAGAN. AND YOU ARE DICK CHENEY AND DONALD RUMSFELD AND BOTH MEN NAMED GEORGE BUSH. When journalists leave 50 MILLION DOLLAR ESTATES they don't look into abuses of POWER. They are POWER. MSNBC just removed Olbermann and Mathews from their anchor desks at their coverage of the single most important election since 1860. Clearly they were cowed by the powers that be in the McSame campaign. Yes, the Press, the free and independent American Press died, officially, in August 2005, with Peter Jennings. The ultimate irony - Jennings was Canadian.

Separated at Birth

Lost in the "Hey, doesn't Sarah Palin look just like Tina Fey" which I'm sure is making Tina Fey sick to her Baby Mama prosthetic stomach, is the fact that from certain angles John McSame looks like world-wide cultural hero Charlie Chaplin. The main differences, aside from the fact that Charlie was a lifelong advocate for the oppressed and spoke out artistically and personally about the dehumanization of workers, are twofold - Chaplinknew to keep his mouth shut when he didn't know what he was talking about. And Chaplin played the Little Tramp. McSame married her.***

***That is you would know if the MSM did its job and told you about McSame's affair with Grinning Skull Woman (Cindy's honorary Indian name; everyone in Arizona has one) while he was still married and the fact that records show they were married BEFORE his divorce from wife #1.

McCain's Potemkin Village Backdrop

So last night during his snore-a-thon of a run-on sentence, John McCain spoke, not just in front of the green screen that loves his sickly pallor so much, but in front of a picture of Walter Reed Middle School of North Hollywood, California. Now I just moved from North Hollywood so I know Walter Reed. But clearly the same McCain people who didn't do any vetting of the soon-to-be-indicted-in-Troopergate Sarah Palin, mistakenly confused a middle school in Cali with Walter Reed Medical center, WHERE OUR WOUNDED VETERANS ARE GETTING SUBSTANDARD TREATMENT AT THE HANDS OF THE BUSH/MCSAME ADMINISTRATION. Now I understand that one Walter Reed building is the same as any other. In Washington it is so easy to wander into CIA Dry Cleaners or Pentagon Florists and assume you're at the right place. But what makes this even more interesting and sadder is that the middle school in question was used as a backdrop for a Presidential announcement ON THE WEST WING, a TV show. McSame's people, so used to confusing fact with fiction on a verbal and written basis now are confusing them on a fictional vs. reality basis. If only President Bartlett were here, he'd know what to do.
Oh and Palin the Merciful (she's supposed to get even meaner and more shrill as the weeks go on) is now not speaking to the press. She will speak to local (read Wasillian in size) press but not to the national media. Perhaps she's being held against her will while Karl Rove and Joe Lieberman cram her head with "foreign policy" as if they KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THAT. Why that woulld make her a POW running with a POW. Her story now matches McSame's. He wasn't kidding when he called her his "soulmate". Cindy, watch out. Hope the prenup is airtight. There's a new hot mama in town and she's got her sights set on your man. And she's a Barracuda.
BTW, has anyone else noticed that neither Karl Rove nor Lindsey Graham, both of their shining countenance, has ever shaved or even needed to shave? I want my fascistic advisors to have some facial hair and my senatorial sycophants to have some secondary sex characteristics. When Michael Phelps shaves himself smooth its to glide through the water. America wants to know - WHY DON'T KARL ROVE OR LINDSEY GRAHAM HAVE FACIAL HAIR? WHY ARE THEIR FACES AS SMOOTH AAND HAIRLESS AS THOSE OF 8 YEAR OLD ALTAR BOYS??? WHY DO THEIR FACES APPEAR AS SMOOTH AS BABIES ASSES??? Rove can claim Executive Privilege and refuse to answer but I just want to see a glimpse of 5 o'clock shadow one day. Until then, I say Karl Rove and Lindsey Graham are WOMEN. Way to go guys. Consider that glass ceiling broken! Sisterhood is powerful. (Not meant as an insult to women but there are only two genders and neither one probably wants 'em. No, the only insult to women is McSame choosing AN UNQUALIFIED ONE SIMPLY BECAUSE SHE IS ONE!

McCain: "Catch up to History."??? WTF!!!

John McSame, the only member of the POW party, said last night before a gathering of rich, white folks, that his mission as titular head of that party is "to catch up to history." Lost in the mindless chanting of "USA, USA" (I think they thought they were at a replay of a USA-Russia hockey game, or a Toby Keith concert) was his next line - "But first I have to catch a nap." Here's a man who has lived through most of recorded history, except for the thousand or so years when he was a POW; first under the Pharoahs, then again under the Merovingian kings, and of course, who can forget his incarceration and terrible treatment at the hands of the Mud People, only ended when Flash Gordon defeated them in a rousing intergalactic battle.

BTW, this is the party that has not made any headway to into CATCHING Osama Bin Laden.
This is also a man who is first learning HOW TO SIGN ON TO THE INTERNET!!!
You don't CATCH UP TO HISTORY.
YOU LIVE AND IT JUST SORT OF HAPPENS.
EXCEPT WHEN YOU'RE RUNNING TO BE THE "LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD".
THEN YOU TRY TO PUT YOUR IMPRINT ON IT.
WITH JOHN MCSAME WE WON'T GET A MAN WHO WILL PUT HIS IMPRINT ON HISTORY.
HE'LL PROBABLY CLAP HIS HANDS TOGETHER AND HOPE THAT HISTORY, LIKE HIS NIGHTLIGHT, SIMPLY GOES OUT.