and this is *news*?

[realthog]

There's a lot going around at the moment about the incompetence, stupidity, vacuity, puerility and bias of the US mainstream "news" media -- and those are just the favourable comments -- but I would like to add an extra beef. Tonight, for the second evening in a row, CNN.com's political blog PoliticalTicker... (geddit?) is focusing on Rush Limbaugh's supposedly clever attempts to manipulate the Democrats' presidential primary (http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/05/07/limbaugh-comes-out-for-obama/).

Let's be straight about this. Rush Limbaugh is (in my opinion) a hypocritical, racist, hatemongering, misogynistic, right-wing-extremist bigot and habitual liar whose on-air "cleverness" might seem a little less clever were it not for the fact that all calls critical of his views or contradictory of his "facts" are scrupulously filtered out by studio producers whose ethics are in some strange way reminiscent of those coloured porous discs you see lying at the bottom of the urinals in pub lavatories.

In the ordinary course, no one would pay the slightest attention to the views of such a moron -- except, perhaps, to move a little farther away from his drunken bawling in that selfsame pub where the studio producers haunt the urinals. The only reason that Limbaugh's views gain any significance whatsoever outside the closed circle of his equally bigoted coterie is because they're given oxygen by supposed news organizations . . . like CNN.

So why the hell is CNN giving Limbaugh that oxygen? It is betraying its own stated purpose if it debases itself to the point where it's a promotional tool for the most disgusting elements of our society. Who next? The Ku Klux Klan?

 

Comments

[sarcobatus.livejournal.com]

I see the angiogram failed to rob you of your edge...thank goodness. You're pretty sharp, for someone who is still recovering and claiming grogginess. ;D

CNN irritates me. They all rub me the wrong way. In fact, I just plain want to move to Costa Rica and play with reptiles for the remainder of my stay here on terra firma (no tv!).

Good to hear you ranting again, P!

[realthog.livejournal.com]

Me? Ranting? Surely not! Pshaw!

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

All of the primary media and their owners should be up on charges of treason.

Love, C.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

Treason to the species as a whole, really. Matters of global importance seem usually to get through to the US public despite rather than because of the mainstream "news" media.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

"All of the primary media and their owners should be up on charges of treason."

Mind you, before this happens they should of course publish long and glowing reviews of books by myself, you and Vaquero. Yours and Vaquero's aren't so important in this context, but . . .

[quilterbear.livejournal.com]

Ever the modest....

[quilterbear.livejournal.com]

I am so completely and utterly disgusted, no, repulsed, by the media i can't eeven express it well enough. For example, the Rev. Wright debaucle -- the media reports on it, saying that it has died down, and then rehashes all the things that have gone on "that have died down," hence opening it back up again and reminding everyone of it.

And I am in complete agreement with you about Rush Limbaugh (or Lush Bumlaugh as you call him!)

[hutch0.livejournal.com]

I clicked on the link and a page came up saying, `Not Found.
Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here.' Which is spooky, because I feel like that all the time.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

Hm. I wonder if they read my rant and felt so ashamed of themselves they removed the offending item?

I wonder, too, if pigs might fly . . .