This pretty much sums up my opinion on things.  FOX news needs to go kill itself off already.  Anyways, watch Wanda Sykes’ speech from the White House Correspondents dinner.

Notable quotes

“This is amazing, the First Black President – I know you’re biracial – but the First Black President! You’re proud to be able to say that – The First Black President. That’s unless you screw up. Then it’s going to be, ‘What’s up with the half-white guy, huh? Who voted for the mulatto, what the hell?’”

“Gov. Palin, she’s not here tonight, she pulled out at the last minute. Somebody should tell her, that’s not really how you practice abstinence.”

“Mr. President . . . you’ve had your fair share of critics. … Rush Limbaugh, one of your big critics, boy — Rush Limbaugh said he hopes this administration fails. So you’re saying, ‘I hope America fails.’ You’re like, ‘I don’t care about people losing their homes, their jobs or our soldiers in Iraq.’ He just wants our country to fail.  To me, that’s treason. He’s not saying anything differently than Osama bin Laden is saying. You know you might want to look into this, sir, because I think Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker but he was just so strung out on Oxycontin he missed his flight”

Bonus video, Obama’s speech at the same dinner

“Mother’s Day is a tough holiday for [Rahm Emanuel]. He’s not used to having to say the word ‘day’ after ‘mother.’”

“Most of you covered me, all of you voted for me. Apologies to the Fox table.”

A Comedy Central show outperforms the mainstream media shows…and yet nothing is being done to make the news programs more accountable.

Source: http://people-press.org/report/319/public-knowledge-of-current-affairs-little-changed-by-news-and-information-revolutions

With our cable line being cut (no phone, tv, or internet since Wednesday), I had quite a bit of catching up to do on news. Yes, only a few days but I’m a prolific reader who used to read the daily newspaper from front to back. With the media the way it is, you have to go through several sources to get to the real point of the story, and sometimes it’s still ambiguous.

Anyways, found this video of Chris Matthews on Hardball absolutely tearing up Kevin James, a popular right wing radio talk host. If only more so called ‘experts’ would be publicly humiliated (O’Reilly, Coulter, Limbaugh) instead of having the power to influence naive voters. Not trying to sound arrogant, but the average American has no clue what’s going on and sadly cannot decipher for themselves the bullshit they are constantly being fed. I’ve heard these people make the most racist, flagrantly dishonest accusations, and sadly people support it otherwise they wouldn’t be on the air. Apparently YELLING REALLY LOUD AND NOT LETTING THE OTHER PERSON GET A WORD IN IS A TACTIC THAT WORKS. And if that fails, bring up 9/11 and terrorists. Who needs credibility and facts…

With the Olympics being held in Beijing, the media and thousands of people have jumped on the latest human rights bandwagon, condemning China over its crackdown on Tibet. So much so that ceremonial Olympic torch routes are being canceled or rerouted to avoid the hordes of protesters trying to sabotage the event, thinking somehow they’d be making the statement. The US House of Representatives were right in with the pack, passing a resolution to call out China on its misbehavior. It’s great that the situation in Tibet is getting worldwide attention, but only because it is the ‘popular’ thing to do. I can almost guarantee a large percentage of the sign wavers have not bothered to read up and research on the decades long crisis they claim to be so passionate about, to the point of outright racism.

Hold up your pretty signs, sign lots of online petitions, talk about it in your social circles to make you sound like an activist so you can score a hot date…does anyone really believe China gives a fuck about the fanfare? The above CNN news story where the House decided “Let’s vote to tell China to stop its crackdown on Tibet” was just another classic media ploy by our government. China already has the US wrapped around its pinky and ‘telling’ them to do something has never been successful in the history books. If they cared what the rest of the world thought, China wouldn’t be committing these crimes in the first place.

If you really want to bring about change, the only way is to pressure them economically.

Despite moral disagreements, the US continues to do massive amount of business with China. Our reliance on them has reached out of control proportions and they damn well know all they need is their economic clout to make the rest of the world bend to their will. The US has no negotiating power, especially when we’re trillions of dollars in debt and counting. Slow down China’s rise as a global superpower, and only then will you see their government squirm in their seats.

Sadly, after the 2008 Olympics are over, the fervor will die and the “SAVE TIBET” shirts will lie in a hamper along with “SAVE THE WHALES” and “SAVE DARFUR” (made in china of course). That’s what you get with a Western world that runs on fads and limited attention spans. China will continue playing the world like puppets, victims will continue suffering, and the US will continue turning a blind eye on the escalating problem.