Sorry, I am a political animal today
Jul. 1st, 2005 10:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ebonlockContemplating creating Cafe Press bumperstickers and t-shirts reading "They'll take my right to choose from my cold, dead hands."
But this I also just have to share:
Several Senate Republicans denounced other lawmakers and the news media on Thursday for unfavorable depictions of the Iraq war and the Pentagon urged members of Congress to talk up military service to help ease a recruiting shortfall.
Families are discouraging young men and women from enlisting "because of all the negative media that's out there," Sen. James Inhofe (news, bio, voting record), an Oklahoma Republican, said at a U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee hearing.
Mostly 'cause Jesse at Pandagon offers up the definitive smackdown on it:
You know, I wish that the FDR-era Congress hadn't outlawed the First Amendment for Republicans. The massive institutional advantages they enjoy are all for naught, as none of those institutions are allowed to speak out lest they be assaulted by scary men in black ninja gear (and believe you me, Depression-era ninjas were fucking brutal).
Rarely has this assault on the free speech of the right been discussed, but today is the time. Republicans may control the most popular cable news network, but in vast portions of urban and suburban America, large portions of the channel are simply blacked out or replaced with lesbian-oriented public programming. Despite the fact that they control the legislature and executive branch, a cabal of Secret Democrats lords over our airwaves, letting the FCC dance like tiny, insignificant marionettes as they go about the business of photoshopping in explosions to peaceful Baghdad streets and retroactively editing in a crapload of references to WMD in 2002/2003 speeches on the Iraq War.
As a party, this is something we Democrats have to take a look at. For instance, I know our Ironic Subtlety division fabricated those comments yesterday by Inhofe and Roberts referenced in the article, but think of all the good things we could do, the tyrants we could stop. If our press organs simply reported that Kim Jong-Il called himself "a fruitcakey little shitcan" in a "rare public speech", we could take down North Korea from the inside within weeks!
Alas, my party focuses instead on making Iraq a really shitty Bruckheimer film, and that's just sad.
But this I also just have to share:
Several Senate Republicans denounced other lawmakers and the news media on Thursday for unfavorable depictions of the Iraq war and the Pentagon urged members of Congress to talk up military service to help ease a recruiting shortfall.
Families are discouraging young men and women from enlisting "because of all the negative media that's out there," Sen. James Inhofe (news, bio, voting record), an Oklahoma Republican, said at a U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee hearing.
Mostly 'cause Jesse at Pandagon offers up the definitive smackdown on it:
You know, I wish that the FDR-era Congress hadn't outlawed the First Amendment for Republicans. The massive institutional advantages they enjoy are all for naught, as none of those institutions are allowed to speak out lest they be assaulted by scary men in black ninja gear (and believe you me, Depression-era ninjas were fucking brutal).
Rarely has this assault on the free speech of the right been discussed, but today is the time. Republicans may control the most popular cable news network, but in vast portions of urban and suburban America, large portions of the channel are simply blacked out or replaced with lesbian-oriented public programming. Despite the fact that they control the legislature and executive branch, a cabal of Secret Democrats lords over our airwaves, letting the FCC dance like tiny, insignificant marionettes as they go about the business of photoshopping in explosions to peaceful Baghdad streets and retroactively editing in a crapload of references to WMD in 2002/2003 speeches on the Iraq War.
As a party, this is something we Democrats have to take a look at. For instance, I know our Ironic Subtlety division fabricated those comments yesterday by Inhofe and Roberts referenced in the article, but think of all the good things we could do, the tyrants we could stop. If our press organs simply reported that Kim Jong-Il called himself "a fruitcakey little shitcan" in a "rare public speech", we could take down North Korea from the inside within weeks!
Alas, my party focuses instead on making Iraq a really shitty Bruckheimer film, and that's just sad.
