Fantastic Pandering

Brought to you by me choking myself

I’ve noticed more and more that I truly dislike CNN.com and the other news sites. As I

visit CNN right now, I’m looking for the important news, the things that, around the world, insight thought and provokes discussion, instead I’m provided with the following headlines: “Man offers to return finger found in custard,” “Documents detail runaway bride's sex-assault lie,” “Hot real estate markets get hotter,” and “'Idol' says farewell to Fedorov.” Woo hoo! What more does a guy need. We have news of Fedorov, whoever the hell that is, from ‘American Idol’ (the most trite and contrived television show ever) getting booted off the show. WHY DOES THIS MATTER! As I look up, there is one mention of the protests in Afghanistan. ONE! The people are revolting against us for flushing the Quran down the toilet, which is disgusting and horrible, but we’re so self obsessed that we’re more interested in the exploits of a television show centered around the creation of an ‘American Idol.’ Someone who sings and has charisma, but really does nothing for the country, whatsoever. How is this important? How is this something that so many people are going to waste time watching and reading about, obsessively? How?! Our troops have so far killed women and children in Iraq by drowning them and now we’re desecrating the religious text of the second largest religions on the planet. THAT’S IMPORTANT! Pay more attention to that not the lovable Ukrainian who got his ass kicked off a television show.

Yes, Bolton was moved on to the Senate and House without any overwhelmingly explicate

stamp of approval – which is important – but I’m seeing more about a bombing in Baghdad. Essentially, I think we’ve moved directly past Afghanistan. In our minds that happened, and it’s now over. Or was it more like a roadtrip? “Look, mom! The world’s largest ball of yarn! Oh, there it went. Oh, look!” We’ve moved on to the war with insurgents and with the installation of the new government in Iraq, yet we’ve completely ignored the ravenous drug industry, murders of officials and the desecration of religious text in Afghanistan. I’m not sure I can say it enough. It doesn’t make any sense.

How can we so quickly shift from one subject to another without resolving the first at

all? This why the president is allowed to install whomever he wants as UN Ambassador; because we’re ignoring it and focusing on the ‘new crap’ that’s happening. Why?! That shouldn’t be the case. We shouldn’t let it go until it’s done. Just as we shouldn’t have invaded Iraq until Afghanistan had been resolved we find ourselves talking about Iran and the impending attack on Tehran to stop nuclear weapons. He thinks he can do whatever he wants, no, he believes he has a mandate to do whatever he wants by ‘the people’ (whatever). Is that the case? Do the majority of people in this country want John Bolton as our UN Ambassador? A man who throws things at his inferiors and obsesses over the firing of one of his employees instead of trying to do his job? Some say that he’s a man of great character and strength. I say anyone with those kinds of problems should be in therapy. If you’re throwing things and obsessing over firing someone for doing something that you didn’t like, you have a problem! That’s not a good candidate to go deal with an organization comprised of over a hundred different nations trying to work together. He’s not going to help problems with the UN, he’s going to hinder them more with bizarre obsessions or throw something at the Chinese representative.

My round-about reason for writing this post? I think it’s ridiculous the way our news is

reported. It’s no longer about what is important to the people or in the world; it’s about trying to get more viewers to tune in. One network is fighting with another network during sweeps so they air something about the war or about a firefighter saving a kitty cat. That’s stupid! News should be the facts reported all the time. It shouldn’t matter if they’re entertaining people, factual reporting is far more important when you’re reporting something that you call ‘news.’ It should just be called ‘tabloid news,’ then maybe I would know that it’s going to be crap before I reach for the mouse/remote.