Someone Stop the Press Before They Kill Us

So, now, I read that this entirely fictional idea that Obama is somehow "coolly arrogant" is taking hold . . . somewhere. . . Karl Rove makes something up. It has a nice open-ended story arc to it. The media picks it up. Then because the media picks it up they pick it up more. Karl Rove isn't a Machiavellian genius; he's the best theater artist ever. He knows how to invent a 3-dimensional fiction with just a few well-chosen words on a page.

Enough about Karl Rove. The guy doesn't deserve anymore attention. Hell, he's just exercising his evil talents.

It's the press -- all of them including the bloggers who never get out of their goddamned house and speak to people -- Everyone is sucking on the same oxygen tube and the air is stale.

Here's why I'm so pissed right now - Didn't we have the "Who do you want to have a beer with" test in the 2000 election? And look where that got us! Why, o why, o why, would the press return to that ridiculous concept. 1. I'm sure some people liked Gore and some people liked Bush. Hell, I know it for a fact. I would want to have a beer with the guy who would be fun conversation. So however they judge the contest is utter and complete and total and utter and complete and total -- have I made my point? -- crap! 2. This isn't high school! It's like some whisper campaign in the halls. The new guy is coolly arrogant when really you just haven't talked to him yet. After you have gym class with him or something you tell all your friends that "He really is kind of cool, you know." 3. It's fictional! What has he done that's coolly arrogant. He's definitely cool in the calm manner of the word. And he definitely has a lot of fans. But the fact that he might be arrogant doesn't make him arrogant. To the extent that being cool (calm) and having tons of fans can have any affect on a person, I've simply heard him make jokes about it. Of course some people don't understand irony. . . And then I read some story in the Post where the reporter actually quoted from his prayer at the western wall, the bit about guarding against pride and despair. first of all, that thing absolutely never should have been published. That's just undefendable and second praying to guard against pride doesn't make him prideful. It makes you fucking humble! What- you think really humble people ask to be guarded against being too humble? Wouldn't that make them arrogant? or they don't ask for any help at all. Praying to guard against despair and pride seems to indicate a pretty good sense of what the freaking world and being human in it is actually like! . . . I'm constantly guarding against pride and despair and often failing! So are a lot of people I know!

Ahhhh

The thing that really pisses me off is that this type of coverage helped elect Bush, and that did actual real fucking damage to how people live their lives and very fabric of this country. You can see it everywhere. It's not a secret. Policy effects how people live. Policy effects how people live. These programs have an affect on individual people around the country and the country as a whole. Not whether Obama is coollly arrogant but what he actually would want to do as President. McCain too. Not whether he's personally old but his policies are old! These things are real and they are important. And the shallow crap that the media spews helped get us in to this mess. It's a real mess not a theoretical mess!

You'd think that any reporter worth anything could actually write some good stories related to real world effects on real world people of real world policies. Or you think any reporter with at least a brain or a heart would try to cover policies more than personalities simply because the other way gets people killed -- literally killed! But no, they just keep playing their little stupid little stupid little high school games. . . I was going to say that maybe they're too insulated by their middle class lives but I know that newspapers are feeling the pressure of job cuts and layoffs just like everyone else. . .Do they think that is an accident? 1. Bush's stupid policies effected you too! 2. Your stupid reporting, stupid assumptions, stupid and easy to manipulate credulity, stupid stupidity means no one actually likes you. You provide no service. You deserve to be destroyed. As far as I'm concerned, they can't kill the newspaper fast enough!

Before you destroy the rest of us.

Argh!