Well, the mainstream media had a good run recently in regards to actually covering events that fucking matter. CNN led the way with wall to wall coverage of the amazing events going on in Iran. Other news networks and outlets followed with heretofore unseen and in depth coverage of a pivotal point in that country's history. I was elated to see your ordinary Joe on the street asking me about Iran and talking about it with a higher level of knowledge. People seemed to care about what was going on there and frivolous stories were nowhere to be found.
Then Mark Sanford, Governor of South Carlolina, went on a walkabout and....they started dropping like flies in CelebrityWood.
While I feel sad for their families (and am especially bummed that the passing of Ed McMahon got swept aside quickly...no one EVER will come close to him and Johnny), the deaths of Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, and Billy Mays are not "Breaking News" in the way that a revolution in a fucking country is news. My cup had already runneth over with Michael and now there will be no escaping it for the next month or possibly more.
And people will return to caring about shallow, meaningless bullshit when they were so close (!) to turning the corner and focusing on poignant matters like Iran, Pakistan, health care, energy, and Iraq. Do we really need to know the intimate details of Governor Sanford's life? I don't care. It's his business and I don't judge him for his actions...although I do find it HILARIOUS that my colleagues on the right are very sympathetic. Where was that sympathy from 1998-2000?
If any of you are wailing uncontrollably at the death of Michael Jackson, first of all....get a fucking life. You didn't know the guy. Save your sadness and empathy for people in your own life for crying out loud. And, if you must weep for someone you don't know, check this site out tomorrow for the video that changed my life.
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Sympathy for perjury?
I don't blame Mark Sanford really. I mean, if anyone could take a look at the women from Argentina you would know why he did what he did. They are gourgeous - I should know because I'm married to one. They are much more appealing and ladylike than the fat, bitchy, control freak, pill-popping emotional wrecks we have for women here in the USA.
People spend a whole lot more time listening to music, watching TV and movies, than they do interacting with Iran. So it's not surprising that they feel more of an emotional connection with Jackson or Fawcett or McMahon than they do with a country full of Muslims we've been told is the axis of evil. Jackson's music made a lot of people happy, so it's not unreasonable that they feel sadness at his passing.
Are people too wrapped in celebrity nonsense? Yeah. But it's just a facet of human nature, Mark. We always want to have our royalty. Just be glad it's just the king of pop and not an actual king.
Now Sanford: it's much the same. People like to see hypocritical bastards get their comeuppance. If he had just had a tawdry, boring affair with a secretary in his office, it would be one thing. But this guy just fell off the grid and hared off to ARGENTINA, after lying to his staff about where he was going. He just abandoned his duties as governor. He used taxpayer money to visit his hot Latina squeeze. And he just got done arguing why poor black students in South Carolina didn't need stimulus money.
If anyone needs a public thrashing, it's guys like Sanford.
Agreed, blk. Sanford has a lot to answer for and it seems like he is not going anywhere soon. At least President Clinton didn't lie to his staff and sneak off to a foreign country. He got his extra love just down the hall:)
yeah, he just lied under oath. but now I see simply lying to ones staff is worse. thanks for clearing that up for me.
I don't think so, Steve. While President Clinton did say to the American people, "I did NOT have sexual relations with that woman" on television, when testifying under oath to Ken Starr's grand jury on August 17, 1998, he admitted to inappropriate relationship with Ms. Lewinski and then went on national television that night to admit to the misdeed.
Yes, he lied. He lied a lot. He lied to the American people. But when placed under oath, President Clinton did not actually perjure himself. Being on television, or addressing reporters, is not testimony-under-oath. If lying in the media were perjury, all politicians would be prosecuted.
Your response is yet another, minor and basically irrelevant, example right-wing revisionist history.
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/impeachments/starr-excerpt.htm
“Too bad, if a governor had to go missing, it couldn’t have been the governor of Alaska. You know, Sarah Palin.” - John Kerry 6/23/09
As JFK would say, "No class."
Tell me why he got disbarred then.
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