Wednesday, September 22, 2004
All the Crap in the World
I confess I haven't paid a great deal of attention to the controversy over CBS getting snookered by fake memos about Bush's National Guard service, except to note that controversy aside, enough questions have already been raised about Bush's service. If similar questions had been raised about any other candidate in our lifetimes, they would have rendered him unelectable, but by some alchemy Bush gets a pass. (And Kerry is taking Repug heat because one of his advisors talked one time to one of the parties who gave CBS the memos--this being approximately equal in Bizarro World to complicity in the Lincoln Assassination, while a Bush lawyer's coordination with the Swift Boat Liars is merely regrettable.) One of the best analyses of what the memo controversy means comes from Salon's Scott Rosenberg, who points out that this pretty much finishes CBS as the House of Murrow and Cronkite, and makes them just another bunch of story-chasers tacking shit together.
I've been reading Rosenberg a bit more often lately, along with another Salon blog, World O'Crap, which is far better than its title. World O'Crap is very good at explaining the deeper political meanings behind various cultural icons, such as the comic strip Family Circus and the Bush Twins. Its frequent takedowns of the wingnut columns at Townhall.com are a riot, and a bit from over the weekend, in which readers were invited to guess which letters from teens to a Christian sex advice columnist were real and which were fake is classic.
Yeah, I like it.
I Got Some Mad Skillz, Beeyotch: Even though you are, for example, a fortysomething white boy of Norwegian ancestry who lives in a condo in Wisconsin, that doesn't mean you have to live your life without a pimp name. Thanks to PlayerAppreciate.com, you can get pimpified. Type in your first and last name, and the site generates your very own pimp name. I decided to get four of them and let you vote on which one I should pick, so consult the Useless Web Poll and vote now. Then use the "Comments" link to share your own pimp names.
Word.
I confess I haven't paid a great deal of attention to the controversy over CBS getting snookered by fake memos about Bush's National Guard service, except to note that controversy aside, enough questions have already been raised about Bush's service. If similar questions had been raised about any other candidate in our lifetimes, they would have rendered him unelectable, but by some alchemy Bush gets a pass. (And Kerry is taking Repug heat because one of his advisors talked one time to one of the parties who gave CBS the memos--this being approximately equal in Bizarro World to complicity in the Lincoln Assassination, while a Bush lawyer's coordination with the Swift Boat Liars is merely regrettable.) One of the best analyses of what the memo controversy means comes from Salon's Scott Rosenberg, who points out that this pretty much finishes CBS as the House of Murrow and Cronkite, and makes them just another bunch of story-chasers tacking shit together.
I've been reading Rosenberg a bit more often lately, along with another Salon blog, World O'Crap, which is far better than its title. World O'Crap is very good at explaining the deeper political meanings behind various cultural icons, such as the comic strip Family Circus and the Bush Twins. Its frequent takedowns of the wingnut columns at Townhall.com are a riot, and a bit from over the weekend, in which readers were invited to guess which letters from teens to a Christian sex advice columnist were real and which were fake is classic.
Yeah, I like it.
I Got Some Mad Skillz, Beeyotch: Even though you are, for example, a fortysomething white boy of Norwegian ancestry who lives in a condo in Wisconsin, that doesn't mean you have to live your life without a pimp name. Thanks to PlayerAppreciate.com, you can get pimpified. Type in your first and last name, and the site generates your very own pimp name. I decided to get four of them and let you vote on which one I should pick, so consult the Useless Web Poll and vote now. Then use the "Comments" link to share your own pimp names.
Word.
