I was watching Morning Joe (Brewed by Starbucks) yet again this morning - don't ask why - and they had many from their usual cast of absolutely foolish characters appear on the show. There was of course Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Mike Barnicle, and then two others on the show who make regular appearances, Savannah Guthrie and Andrea Mitchell. (I don't mean to ignore other people who regularly appear on the show like Eugene Robinson and Dylan Ratigan. I just leave these particular individuals out because I don't remember them being present - on set or via video - when the particular subject that I'm about to discuss was discussed. I also don't lump them in with the foolish characters above.)
At some point during the discussion (and I'm sure they discussed this subject at times other than when I was watching), the cast brought up this ridiculous "issue" about how in his recent media blitz, President Obama failed to make an appearance on Fox News Sunday, while even going so far as to appear on Univision and the Late Show with David Letterman.
Leaving aside my personal feelings about what should have been done for the moment, I'll tell you what the clowns on Morning Joe (Brewed by Starbucks) were saying. First, I'll have to provide just a bit of background. Within the last few days, a video has surfaced from this heavily Fox News Channel promoted 9-12 Health Care Reform Protest (or whatever its official name was) where an assistant producer in the employ of Fox News is taped cueing the crowd to cheer at particular points while the network is broadcasting. This is an obvious hint that Fox was not simply covering the news. If the crowd's reaction had been spontaneous, that would have been one thing, but since Fox News personnel were actually encouraging a certain behavior out of people, it renders their coverage a complete farce.
Now, the Morning Joe (Brewed by Starbucks) joker posse was well aware of the existence of this Fox 9-12 Promotional Video, and they may have even mentioned as much in this very segment. However, despite these facts, many of the idiots at this rodeo clown table still suggested that it was a bad idea for President Obama to skip appearing on Fox News Sunday. And as you might expect, their reasons were quite asinine.
They stated the whole he's everyone's president, he should go and appear before the entire American audience, and maybe something about facing tough questions (I'm a little bit fuzzy about this last one, but I think that this sentiment was expressed) nonsense. This reasoning, if you can call it that, is absolutely absurd. Sure, though it is true that Barack Obama is everyone's president, though some of the right wingers want to deny this is the case, why in blazes should he appear on a network that seems to have a vested interest in seeing him fail just so he "can appear to the entire American audience"? This line of thinking is absolute rubbish.
So in order to appear before the entire American audience, President Obama has to go on all of these programs? You people do realize that he is the President of the United States and he does have a few things that are more important to do than worry that if he doesn't go on Fox News Sunday, he might have to bust the budget in having to send boxes of tissues to the people at Fox News Sunday and to the court jesters at Morning Joe (Brewed by Starbucks) so that they can dry their whiny little eyes don't you? No?
The reasoning of these idiots is completely insane because if the Fox News Channel/Fox News Sunday watching audience really was that interested in watching the president, well here's an idea for them: try changing the stupid channel to another network. It wouldn't take that long, certainly not as much time as it would take the president to sit for a sixth or seventh interview. You could either (1) change the channel by pressing a few buttons on your remote control or, dare I say it, (2) get up and walk over to your television and change the channel that way. This absurd notion that the president has to appear on a network that seems hell-bent upon submarining his agenda just so all Americas can see him without drifting out of their propagandistic comfort zone is quite laughable. (I mean goodness, I watch Fox News Sunday fairly regularly even though I think that it is easily the least reputable of the Sunday news shows and it a propaganda arm of the right wing/Republican Party.) Unless, of course, these morons really believe that Fox would ask some tough/important questions that just weren't asked in five or six other interviews. In that case, I suggest they tell David Gregory (their colleague who conducted the interview for NBC's Meet the Press) that he had better to a better job next time.
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Morning Joe Idiocy - August 25, 2009 Edition
I was watching Morning Joe this morning and the cast (and really I do consider this a cast as I have explained in the past and not actually a panel) was discussing the investigation into prisoner abuse allegedly perpetrated by CIA operatives and government contractors during the administrations of George W. Bush. What spurred this discussion was the release of partially declassified memos by the Obama administration detailing some information about events that have been hinted to have occurred, but previously unconfirmed.
What irritated me about the conversation that took place on the subject was the continued insistence by all gathered (including host Joe Scarborough, Willie Geist, Savannah Guthrie, Jonathan Capeheart, Pat Buchanan, and Richard Haas) that these charges were not new and that they had already been investigated by “career prosecutors,” and not political appointees, back in 2004 or so. Now this reasoning would be all well and good if not for the fact that the career prosecutors might be biased toward a particular political party (I’ll explain later) and the notion that career prosecutors cannot possibly be overruled by their political hack political appointee bosses is incredibly naïve.
And to add to this, the morons kept pointing out that Obama keeps saying that he wants to look forward not back but yet is “allowing” Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate the actions of the previous administration. This is precisely why these people are borderline stupid. These people must be pining for the days of yore when the Attorney’s General Office and the Justice Department acted at the political whims of the executive branch and not as an independent entity. They must certainly be forgetting that this sort of thinking and illegality led directly to the torture regime that we had in the last administration, or they are inhuman, sadistic monsters like former Vice President Dick Cheney.
But let’s back up for a moment. Since career prosecutors have already looked at this information and nothing has come of it, then that clearly means that there must be nothing to it, right? Absolutely…if you are stupid, you are as naïve as a ten-year old, or you are a political hack like Joe Scarborough. Obviously these people are forgetting, or are choosing to ignore, the fact that during this time the Justice Department was under John Ashcroft and then Alberto Gonzales. While I am not 100% certain about Ashcroft, I am absolutely sure that the sycophantic Gonzales would have done anything and everything in his power to kill any investigation that led to top administration officials being held criminally responsible for their law breaking. So for this reason alone, the insistence by these hacks that these charges have already been looked at is patently absurd.
But let’s revisit this implication that they are making that these career prosecutors are somehow immune from political hackery. Evidently these morons are forgetting (or again are choosing to ignore) the fact that there was this big scandal where a certain political hack named Monica Goodling, who worked for both Ashcroft and Gonzales at the Justice Department, broke federal law by hiring only prosecutors for career positions who were Republicans or conservative loyalists.
So, idiots, do you think that any of this might have stopped these prosecutors from doing a real investigation into whether or laws were broken during this torture regime?
What irritated me about the conversation that took place on the subject was the continued insistence by all gathered (including host Joe Scarborough, Willie Geist, Savannah Guthrie, Jonathan Capeheart, Pat Buchanan, and Richard Haas) that these charges were not new and that they had already been investigated by “career prosecutors,” and not political appointees, back in 2004 or so. Now this reasoning would be all well and good if not for the fact that the career prosecutors might be biased toward a particular political party (I’ll explain later) and the notion that career prosecutors cannot possibly be overruled by their political hack political appointee bosses is incredibly naïve.
And to add to this, the morons kept pointing out that Obama keeps saying that he wants to look forward not back but yet is “allowing” Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate the actions of the previous administration. This is precisely why these people are borderline stupid. These people must be pining for the days of yore when the Attorney’s General Office and the Justice Department acted at the political whims of the executive branch and not as an independent entity. They must certainly be forgetting that this sort of thinking and illegality led directly to the torture regime that we had in the last administration, or they are inhuman, sadistic monsters like former Vice President Dick Cheney.
But let’s back up for a moment. Since career prosecutors have already looked at this information and nothing has come of it, then that clearly means that there must be nothing to it, right? Absolutely…if you are stupid, you are as naïve as a ten-year old, or you are a political hack like Joe Scarborough. Obviously these people are forgetting, or are choosing to ignore, the fact that during this time the Justice Department was under John Ashcroft and then Alberto Gonzales. While I am not 100% certain about Ashcroft, I am absolutely sure that the sycophantic Gonzales would have done anything and everything in his power to kill any investigation that led to top administration officials being held criminally responsible for their law breaking. So for this reason alone, the insistence by these hacks that these charges have already been looked at is patently absurd.
But let’s revisit this implication that they are making that these career prosecutors are somehow immune from political hackery. Evidently these morons are forgetting (or again are choosing to ignore) the fact that there was this big scandal where a certain political hack named Monica Goodling, who worked for both Ashcroft and Gonzales at the Justice Department, broke federal law by hiring only prosecutors for career positions who were Republicans or conservative loyalists.
So, idiots, do you think that any of this might have stopped these prosecutors from doing a real investigation into whether or laws were broken during this torture regime?
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Preventing the Rise of the Mutants
There have certainly been other political stories that have come up recently that I've wanted to discuss, some of which I hope to touch on anyway in the near future, but I found that I could not let this one go that I'm preparing to write about. And in fact, this one seems so absurd that I've toyed with the idea of also writing about it on my non-political blog. Well, to get to the point, Senator Sam Brownback, the senior senator from the state of Kansas, last week introduced the Human-Animal Hybrid Prohibition Act of 2009.
Well, to be fair, Senator Brownback apparently first introduced a version of this bill in late 2007. And also, it isn't as if Brownback is a lone wolf in this measure. And it is particularly important that he isn't a lone wolf because he isn't a wolf at all, or even part wolf. Although, technically it would be legal today for Brownback to be part wolf, this act aims to prevent such an abomination from ever happening. There are apparently twenty other senators who have joined Brownback, including one Democrat and one senator who was formerly his party's nominee for the presidency.
Let's take a closer look at some of the findings that this bill has, shall we? Section 2 of the act states that Congress finds that (1) advances in research and technology have made possible the creation of human-animal hybrids. Okay, I suppose this could be true, but if a mixture of human and animal DNA has yet to actually have been attempted yet, I'm not sure you can say definitively that you can create human-animal hybrids, unless you are talking about on television. (But upon closer inspection, this appears to be an animal-human hybrid so I'm not sure the example fits...) But moving on, Congress also finds that (2) human-animal hybrids are grossly unethical because they blur the line between human and animal, male and female, parent and child, and one individual and another individual. They keep pointing out that "Congress finds" this and "Congress finds" that, but as best as I can see at this point, (and in the interest of full disclosure, I have not done any research on other statements that Congress has made agreeing with these findings) it appears that these are simply the findings of twenty-one probably insane people. So it might be possible that these twenty-one lunatics are blurring the line between one individual and another individual by asserting that these "findings" are of Congress. (And I am certainly not going to waste my time looking to see whether Congress has made any statements in support of these "findings.") And finally, the last one of these "findings" that I'll discuss is that Congress finds that (3) human dignity and the integrity of the human species are compromised by human-animal hybrids. Really? Human dignity is compromised by human-animal hybrids? The integrity of the human species is compromised by human-animal hybrids? This sounds like a personal self-esteem problem to me more than anything else.
While I really do appreciate Senator Brownback and friends for standing up for my dignity and attempting to protect the integrity of my species, these people all strike me as being profoundly stupid. From what I understand, this act is aimed to prevent federal funds for embryonic stem cell research from being used to experiment with any sort of mixing of human and animal DNA, which some scientists evidently believe might be beneficial in finding pathways to cure certain human diseases. But the abject stupidity of these supporting this act is amazing. Do they truly believe that researchers who are granted federal funds to research embryonic stem cells are going to say, "Screw finding cures for diseases! Screw it! I'm going to create a Jackalman, err, Manjackal hybrid!" Really, you think that serious scientists who are granted federal funding for the purpose of researching these stem cells to cure diseases are going to create human-animal hybrids? You people are idiots.
Well, to be fair, Senator Brownback apparently first introduced a version of this bill in late 2007. And also, it isn't as if Brownback is a lone wolf in this measure. And it is particularly important that he isn't a lone wolf because he isn't a wolf at all, or even part wolf. Although, technically it would be legal today for Brownback to be part wolf, this act aims to prevent such an abomination from ever happening. There are apparently twenty other senators who have joined Brownback, including one Democrat and one senator who was formerly his party's nominee for the presidency.
Let's take a closer look at some of the findings that this bill has, shall we? Section 2 of the act states that Congress finds that (1) advances in research and technology have made possible the creation of human-animal hybrids. Okay, I suppose this could be true, but if a mixture of human and animal DNA has yet to actually have been attempted yet, I'm not sure you can say definitively that you can create human-animal hybrids, unless you are talking about on television. (But upon closer inspection, this appears to be an animal-human hybrid so I'm not sure the example fits...) But moving on, Congress also finds that (2) human-animal hybrids are grossly unethical because they blur the line between human and animal, male and female, parent and child, and one individual and another individual. They keep pointing out that "Congress finds" this and "Congress finds" that, but as best as I can see at this point, (and in the interest of full disclosure, I have not done any research on other statements that Congress has made agreeing with these findings) it appears that these are simply the findings of twenty-one probably insane people. So it might be possible that these twenty-one lunatics are blurring the line between one individual and another individual by asserting that these "findings" are of Congress. (And I am certainly not going to waste my time looking to see whether Congress has made any statements in support of these "findings.") And finally, the last one of these "findings" that I'll discuss is that Congress finds that (3) human dignity and the integrity of the human species are compromised by human-animal hybrids. Really? Human dignity is compromised by human-animal hybrids? The integrity of the human species is compromised by human-animal hybrids? This sounds like a personal self-esteem problem to me more than anything else.
While I really do appreciate Senator Brownback and friends for standing up for my dignity and attempting to protect the integrity of my species, these people all strike me as being profoundly stupid. From what I understand, this act is aimed to prevent federal funds for embryonic stem cell research from being used to experiment with any sort of mixing of human and animal DNA, which some scientists evidently believe might be beneficial in finding pathways to cure certain human diseases. But the abject stupidity of these supporting this act is amazing. Do they truly believe that researchers who are granted federal funds to research embryonic stem cells are going to say, "Screw finding cures for diseases! Screw it! I'm going to create a Jackalman, err, Manjackal hybrid!" Really, you think that serious scientists who are granted federal funding for the purpose of researching these stem cells to cure diseases are going to create human-animal hybrids? You people are idiots.
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