Apr 28, 2009
Once again, the media have been complicit in advancing a fear-campaign over a flu outbreak that will probably fizzle out by the time I finish this sentence. Even NPR stooped to near FOX NEWS levels yesterday, transitioning from Obama's statement that there's no need for panic to the W.H.O.'s Level 4 Pandemic Alert in practically the same breath. I'm not even bothering to write jokes about it (unless untold thousands die, of course).
What's more disturbing to me is how many of my fellow Americans continue to drink the mainstream media's kool-aid. Disturbing but not surprising, though, because apparently a lot of them believe not only everything they hear on the news but also everything they hear on The Colbert Report.
No shit.
Now I know why right-wing freaks go on shooting sprees, driven by their fear of Obama taking their guns away - they have no sense of irony. Hey, what better way to stand up for your constitutional rights than by shooting a couple cops and getting killed in the process? That'll learn'em.
What's more disturbing to me is how many of my fellow Americans continue to drink the mainstream media's kool-aid. Disturbing but not surprising, though, because apparently a lot of them believe not only everything they hear on the news but also everything they hear on The Colbert Report.
No shit.
Now I know why right-wing freaks go on shooting sprees, driven by their fear of Obama taking their guns away - they have no sense of irony. Hey, what better way to stand up for your constitutional rights than by shooting a couple cops and getting killed in the process? That'll learn'em.
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