I'm seeing a lot of people on the info-pipes analogize politics to professional wrestling. I guess the point is this: there's lots of bullshitting, meaningless posturing, endless boasting, pretend skirmishes, big fucking cage matches, etc. - but ultimately all of the outcomes are known well in advance. The whole thing is theater for the average American voter who might as well be a tea-bagger given how little they understand about most things generally.
That sounds about right to me. And remember, it's not fake just scripted. There is a difference.
The winners and losers are all very real.
Showing posts with label Jon Stewart. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jon Stewart. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Goat Fuckers at CNN:
"Nobody Leaves More Things There"
To be fair, Stewart and the Daily Show are at least partly responsible for the conflation of comedy and what currently passes for television journalism. Stewart has again and again revealed television journalism for the empty, talking heads garbage that it really is. If it weren't such effective propaganda and advertising, television news would be an abandoned mode of entertainment/infotainment. But yes, TV news "journalism" has its uses to the powers that be.
On the other side of this is the fact The Daily Show is one of the few places you can actually get real information about political matters of the moment. The Daily Show's whole raison d'être is pointing up the failings of television journalism for laughs. Interestingly, while they are doing that very thing the truth of many matters is more clearly revealed on The Daily Show than most of the supposed journalism taking place on all of the several 24 hour news networks combined!
I exclude the following shows from condemnation: Bill Moyers' Journal, The Rachel Maddow Show and Countdown with Keith Olbermann. But seriously, consider that those shows represent maybe 11 hours a week of programming and then compare that to what occurs for 168 hours a week on several stations. Wiki says that there are at least 5 such 24 hour news networks: CNBC, CNN, Fox Business Network, Fox News Channel and MSNBC. That's 5 x 168 = 840 hours of nearly all mindless fluff instead of actual journalism.
I'm just sayin'...
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Who Would Be Silly Enough
to Carry an Unloaded Firearm?
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
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Stewart on Faux News: "That's the subtext, because we only report the news that conforms to the narrative we've worked so hard to construct."
Friday, August 14, 2009
Glen Beck is a Fucktard
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
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And that's why we don't take him seriously on this blog.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Jon Stewart: Healther Skelter
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
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| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
| Healther Skelter - Obama Death Panel Debate | ||||
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009
War = Oversees Contingency Operation
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | M - Th 11p / 10c | |||
| Redefinition Accomplished | ||||
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Obama is just another warmongering, sniveling ass. Be warned. The newspeak continues...
Toxic assets = legacy assets.
Good fucking god!
Rachel Maddow has a different take on it all:
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
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But Rachel...
Do you really suppose that fiscal accountability really means anything in an era of multi-trillion dollar spending on the economic crisis? The fed is spending money we don't even know about and doing so accountable to no one. Doesn't that give the fed power over our monetary system to make or break it as they see fit?
Money no longer has an actual tangible meaning. One of the problems we are faced with is the need to find something of real value.
I am reminded of the scene in Lawrence of Arabia when Audar says: "I must find something honourable." Of the few things depicted in the film we know that Audar finds both gold and arabian horses to be honorable.
And so it was, once upon a time, in this country.
Friday, March 13, 2009
The Daily Show vs. Jim Cramer
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Ultimately, Stewart is unfair to Cramer. Yes, it would be nice if Jim Cramer would operate as more of a market watchman and do the hard-hitting investigative journalism that Stewart envisions as part of Cramer's job. But Cramer admits himself that what he actually does is more in the way of an entertainment show about the market. One has only to watch the show a little to see that his persona on the show is more in line with Bob 'Bulldog' Briscoe - a fictional character on the TV sitcom "Frazier." Cramer is clearly not the investigative journalist that Stewart would seem to demand of him. Stewart also ignore that CNBC has advertisers that are most likely major players in the market and that they will not support the kind of show that Stewart imagines them putting on the air.
Stewart seems to want Cramer to do the job of government in regulating the markets, but he's just not going to get that is he? I mean, in what world?
The reality is that our federal legislators are obviously in bed with the great manipulators of the markets and that the SEC is very nearly toothless and utterly outmatched by an investment culture that views it with the same annoyance and a wink as do children when they consider the importance of the hall monitors at their elementary schools.
Government is not doing its job and it's every man for himself. You must carefully scrutinize how you invest and read every contract to the last line. There is no one else watching out for you.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Douchebags on CNBC
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I am really starting to feel that the economic crisis that we now face is in reality the failure of capitalism. Given the chance, your countrymen will rob from you until you are a dead withered husk. People may complain about the ills of socialism, but I must ask:
How can it be worse than the last 150 years of capitalism in the U.S.? Is it possible to have even more corruption than we now have? Will we face an even more ruthless oligarchy?
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
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