CLACKATY CLACKING
dick cheney now says that the vice president is not part of the excutive branch of the government. dick apparently believes that the vp is some kind of royal office and not, in any way, answerable to the american people. using this excuse he still refuses to turn over to congress any of his emails or lists of people who have made official visits to his office. remember we still do not know who was involved in his original conference on energy policy. (we do know that ENRON people were there, but hey, why should that worry us?)
i would suggest that dick and all congresspeople read the constitution and it's description of the three branches of government and the checks and balances contained therein.
I NOW UNDERSTAND CHENEY'S ARGUMENT AND HE HAS A GREAT POINT: THE CONSTITUTION ONLY APPLIES TO ELECTED OFFICIALS. AND SINCE DICK AND DUMMY WERE NOT ACTUALLY ELECTED THEN IT DOES NOT APPLY TO THEM. OR AS DICK SAID, "HELL, WE WEREN'T ELECTED...WE STOLE THIS LITTLE BUGGER." (okay, he didn't say that. in public anyway. but i know in my heart he said it to someone)
the democrats are proving themselves to be just as devious, just as untruthful, just as evasive as any republican (with maybe the exception of dick and dummy). when they came into power in the house they made a big fucking deal of having "open legislation" so that the people (that's you and me) can know where their tax money is going. they were going to make public ALL EARMARKS AND WHO INSERTED THEM. (if you don't know what an "earmark" is educate yourself) so CNN started calling every representative in congress and asked them if they had posted their earmarks. 45 out 435 had posted. 390 apparently think the american public should not know how their tax dollars are being spent and have, so far, refused to make public their little contributions to the overall fiscal decline of america. CNN is asking viewers to call their representative and ask them if they have posted their earmarks. this is a great idea. i am calling mine and i beseech you to do the same. let us hold their theiving feet to the fire. earmarks are how congresspeople pay off their contributors. let's follow the money. get involved.
not that this is any endorsement of CNN or any other network "news" channels. guess what? britney spears is not news. paris hilton is not news. those are features. one of the things that all so called news channels do is TELL YOU WHAT THE NEWS IS GOING TO BE TOMORROW! quick study, logics 101, it can't be NEW if you knew about it in advance. if today you tell me that tomorrow the news will be about a little girl who got bullied that is not NEWS ON THE MORROW. (that is an actual story on cnn today--not news. little boys and girls have been bullied since the begining of time) besides, "news", has a connotation of being something that impacts us in some way. sudden rise in gas prices for instance, would impact us and information about how it happened would be truly "news." britney spears' TWAT IS NOT.
verily, verily as i wrote the above, cnn headline news has a piece on some israeli female soldiers posing in bikinis in a magazine called maxim (sp?) . that piece had run yesterday as well. they quote an israeli official who calls the photos "pornographic." now what does this piece accomplish? is it news? is it important? does it impact us? then what does it do? IT SELLS MILLIONS OF COPIES OF THAT MAGAZINE IS WHAT IT DOES. don't you see? i wonder who owns maxim magazine? could it be the same conglomorate that owns cnn? that is television's version of an earmark. the comment about pornographic was worth what? a half a million copies right there. see, that wasn't news, it was a commercial.
it's raining here in dayton
freight train rumbling across a wooden trestle
clackaty clacking itself
on the way to somewhere
else.
i would suggest that dick and all congresspeople read the constitution and it's description of the three branches of government and the checks and balances contained therein.
I NOW UNDERSTAND CHENEY'S ARGUMENT AND HE HAS A GREAT POINT: THE CONSTITUTION ONLY APPLIES TO ELECTED OFFICIALS. AND SINCE DICK AND DUMMY WERE NOT ACTUALLY ELECTED THEN IT DOES NOT APPLY TO THEM. OR AS DICK SAID, "HELL, WE WEREN'T ELECTED...WE STOLE THIS LITTLE BUGGER." (okay, he didn't say that. in public anyway. but i know in my heart he said it to someone)
the democrats are proving themselves to be just as devious, just as untruthful, just as evasive as any republican (with maybe the exception of dick and dummy). when they came into power in the house they made a big fucking deal of having "open legislation" so that the people (that's you and me) can know where their tax money is going. they were going to make public ALL EARMARKS AND WHO INSERTED THEM. (if you don't know what an "earmark" is educate yourself) so CNN started calling every representative in congress and asked them if they had posted their earmarks. 45 out 435 had posted. 390 apparently think the american public should not know how their tax dollars are being spent and have, so far, refused to make public their little contributions to the overall fiscal decline of america. CNN is asking viewers to call their representative and ask them if they have posted their earmarks. this is a great idea. i am calling mine and i beseech you to do the same. let us hold their theiving feet to the fire. earmarks are how congresspeople pay off their contributors. let's follow the money. get involved.
not that this is any endorsement of CNN or any other network "news" channels. guess what? britney spears is not news. paris hilton is not news. those are features. one of the things that all so called news channels do is TELL YOU WHAT THE NEWS IS GOING TO BE TOMORROW! quick study, logics 101, it can't be NEW if you knew about it in advance. if today you tell me that tomorrow the news will be about a little girl who got bullied that is not NEWS ON THE MORROW. (that is an actual story on cnn today--not news. little boys and girls have been bullied since the begining of time) besides, "news", has a connotation of being something that impacts us in some way. sudden rise in gas prices for instance, would impact us and information about how it happened would be truly "news." britney spears' TWAT IS NOT.
verily, verily as i wrote the above, cnn headline news has a piece on some israeli female soldiers posing in bikinis in a magazine called maxim (sp?) . that piece had run yesterday as well. they quote an israeli official who calls the photos "pornographic." now what does this piece accomplish? is it news? is it important? does it impact us? then what does it do? IT SELLS MILLIONS OF COPIES OF THAT MAGAZINE IS WHAT IT DOES. don't you see? i wonder who owns maxim magazine? could it be the same conglomorate that owns cnn? that is television's version of an earmark. the comment about pornographic was worth what? a half a million copies right there. see, that wasn't news, it was a commercial.
it's raining here in dayton
freight train rumbling across a wooden trestle
clackaty clacking itself
on the way to somewhere
else.
posted by Ron Shock | 7:42 AM
2 Comments:
The media has sold out, ruined its core values and cast blame elsewhere all the while, and leaving tire marks on millions of good journalist and hundreds of millions of members of a deserving public.
So sayeth this member of the media.
Journalists, with an S. I had a typo above.
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