I am disheartened
somebody remove CommieNewzNuts from my TV? and/or planet? please?
NOTE: I wrote this earlier, then went off on errands thinking/hoping that my bamfoozlement would dissipate and I would be able to ...digest the experience and incorporate it into my world view. No such luck.
This freaktodd… this numbnutz… this absolute waste of $3,00 suits.... gaaah. Guess not.
The bits in braces [] are my commentary [duh]
WOLFIE and HOWIE, wack jobs extradorni´ire, conversatin’ on CNN—a precis:
Deanio quote from Wed.
“We have to come to terms with the ugly fact that skin color age and economics played a significant role in who survived and who did not.”
W: what did you mean?
D: I meant what Colon Powell meant. [?!?]
blablabla This gives an opportunity to look at an issue that’s been swept under the rug for the past 20 or 30 years since the civil rights movement and that is if you are poor [was that what the civil rights movement was about - being poor?] if you are black, if you are old [again, was that what the civil rights movement was about - being old?] you disproportionately suffered in this disaster. That means we need to have a national discussion blablabla
W: do you believe that the response from the federal government, the Bush Administration specifically, the President of the United States, that there were racist or racial overtones in that response?
D: No I don’t think so. [err......] The way our society has worked in the last 20 years when nobody’s been talking about it [whereinhell have you been you didn’t hear hour upon hour, day upon day, relentless and never ending, beaten like a dead horse, ad nauseum race-talk?!? oh, yeah—in Snowy White Vermont with your snowy white staff, your snowy white cabinet, in your your snowy white administration. nevermind.]
...Is that those below the top 20% in America, white, black and brown, have been significantly disadvantaged.
[do what now?!? 80% of the entire population of the wealthiest, healthiest, most productive and educated nation in history are “significantly disadvantaged” ?!? My chicken makes more sense!]
*more classist bullshit here*
W: Con-Yay West accused him of being a racist… [who, Wolfie? Have ya’ll now begun to verbally capitalize ‘Him’ since everyone knows who is allus being bashed. odd, that.] I want you to listen to Laura Bush’s quote:
LAURA: I think all of those remarks were disgusting, to be perfectly frank, because of course President Bush cares about everyone in our country and I know that....
W: do you agree with the First Lady?
D: No. I do not think that this President cares about everybody in America. *I’m sure Bush is a nice person*.... ...*Bush’s policies hurt the middle class*blablabla* ... “The people who were holed up in the Astrodome—Look at the kinds of things that have been said about them. ...Rep from LA said in the WSJ this am, ‘Finally god has cleaned up the public housing in NO.’ It’s not enough to be a dice guy. [here, I note that Deanio seems to be having trouble distinguisheing between the Rep from LA and the President. Does he thing the President instructs everyone each morning on what to say? Ohno—that’s Karl Rove’s job. forgot.. sorry.]
W: ...can’t blame Bush for what Rep from LA said…
D: There is an indifference in the Republican Party toward people who aren’t at the very top income level. [again, confusion about who is who… ]
I can’t stand this. Dean makes the flat statement that “Karl Rove gave away the identity of a CIA agent in a time of war.” Didn’t we all discover that it was that Novak reporter guy—after he, himself, said so? And that is was in no way illegal since Plame wasn’t a covert agent at the time but wandered around telling people herself that she usta be? Or did I dream that all?
He also claimed, against the facts stated by General Honore, that “the National Guard was in Iraq. ...ans so was the equipment.” Has Deanio not been watching the news this week? Did he think we flew all that equipment back from Iraq in the succeeding 12 hours when it did hit the ground? Does he know where Iraq is??
Wolfie brought up the school busses which the MSM has finally gotten around to discovering—as tho they’d known about it all along…
“That’s an easy criticism to make. Beforehand you can blame everybody. You can blame the last 4 or 5 presidents ...” When Wolfie pushed, he went completely to peices and just started makin’ shit up.
“You’re holding the mayor to a different standard, this is Republican spin machine stuff [yeah—Wolfie is on the VRWC mailing list. right after Alan Combs] You’re holding the mayor to a different standard than you’re holding FEMA.”
[huh? ]
Howie, the Head Moonbat, finished his little interview by making the point [?] that, in the aftermath of Katrina, we have a clear moral responsibility not to confirm John Roberts since that man “has spent his entire legal career has been about taking away every protection for young girls and women who want to participate in sports, for African-Americans and Hispanics who want the equal same right to vote as everybody else, taking away er, for women who believe they should determine what kind of health care they should have instead of having politicians do it. His entire legal career appears to be about making sure those folks don’t have the same rights everybody else does.” [direct quote, there]
[ ok—lemme get this straight; Roberts wants to take away girls’ shin guards, prevent anyone with ‘a single drop’ from voting, and make abortion illegal? You gots you any proof of alla this, Meester Moonbat?]
Gaaaaaah! Somebody pass the Prozac and Scotch—a nice single malt would be nice.
I vowed five years ago never to watch the Communist News Network ever again. Except for channel flipping I never have.
PS: I don’t click on cnn.com links either.
Posted by on 09/10/05 at 03:21 AMUm, Claire...actually, after the major civil rights legislation of the sixties was passed, the civil rights movement WAS becoming about being poor. Have you not heard or read of the Poor People’s Campaign that Martin Luther King was working on when he was killed?
Posted by on 09/11/05 at 11:08 AMClaire--
Annoyed one, your first commenter, has the right idea, only not carried far enough. I vowed 27 years ago to get rid of my TV and except for when my ageing mother was here and needed it for entertainment, we’ve not had one....
OTOH, I depend on the gallant martyrs like you, who need a stiff drink after the ordeal, to watch and report to us how *really* bad it is...I’ve seen clips on Deanio on the internet and he’s a piece of work. If he were a woman, can you imagine what they’d make of his hysteria, his-over-the-top screeching, etc...hey, maybe he’s menopausal?
Thanks for taking on the dirty work. Uggh. I couldn’t do it. As always, your style is superb. When I’m feeling audacious, I copy it shamelessly. For example, “usta”—I need to work that in somewhere…
KUTGW--
~DPosted by dymphna on 09/14/05 at 01:27 PMSo, what do you say to Americans who work hard for low wages at dead-end jobs and have nothing to show for their toil? Quit being hysterical?
Posted by on 09/14/05 at 05:02 PMFor people in low paying, dead end jobs, I say what I’ve always said: “let’s see what education might be available so you can get out of this situation.” It takes compassion, support, and belief in the person’s ability to work toward a goal to create real change. It’s not something that is easily accomplished on one’s own.
This is one reason I was dismayed when the gummint took the Pell Grant away from prisoners. It took away much of their hope—at least those inclined to study, even if it was just to while away the time.
But govt is not the only answer. There are private groups, suppported by local businesses who need an educated work force, that provide various kinds of training.
If we don’t change the anti-intellectual attitudes toward learning that are so prevalent in our school systems and in popular culture in general, then people will stay mired in “dead-end” jobs.
But they’re only dead-end if you don’t move on. For many, they are simply stepping stone jobs, work we get so we can become habituated to working and getting along with our fellow-employees. They were never meant to be one’s life’s work.
Posted by dymphna on 09/15/05 at 06:42 AM
