My lower back is killing me for some reason.
I might go visit my Nana today but I'm not really sure if I should because she really likes to talk about politics and she's stubborn. We're a lot alike with one exception: she's a republican. She didn't used to be which is why it's so hard for me. I mean Bill Ritter was her BFF, almost literally; I remember him coming to Christmas dinner a couple of times. He adored her and her him. So that's why it's so mind boggling to me... And then I remember she watches the news.
I can't watch the news anymore. PBS is pretty good although I prefer to get my news from NPR. It just seems that everything the rest of them say is a lie or is missing big important chunks of information. Karl Cassel reports. Contessa Brewer regurgitates Shephard Smith. And not well I must add. Clarice and I were eating lunch one day a couple of weeks ago and Contessa was "reporting" on a building that had collapsed. She kept stumbling over her words and I mean everything that came out of her mouth was littered with pauses, mispronunciations, and hesitance. She sucks. Condi Rice does a better job bullshitting than this woman and of course Condi has to but if the news networks, in their government- serving ways, are in charge of convincing us of this or that you'd think they'd have someone who actually has experience being a news anchor rather than this Britney Spears spin-off.
HOWEVER there are a couple of anchors on MSNBC that I love. Keith Olbermann mmmmmm. And not just mmmmmm because he's hot and intelligent but also because he's not scared of telling it how it is and even though he's biased it's necessary in this day and age. You have to balance out Bill O'Rielly with someone. Just like the balance of Jon Stewart (also mmmmm) and Steven Colbert (totally mmmmm) and although Colbert is just playing a role you still get my point. Chris Matthews is also the man.
All of this just keeps going back to the same point I've been trying to make lately. It's frightening how obvious it is. This country is supposed to be setting the standards for the rest of world, being the powerful nation it is. What kind of example do we set when our media is controlled? How is this any different from a dictatorship? Okay that might be going too far but for real this is nonsense. Or NINsense. LOL Clax!!!!
To end, I'm going to quote this woman from Robert Greenwald's UNCONVERED: the whole truth about the Iraq war which is actually more of an addition to the post below, in rebuttle to the teacher who said he doesn't care if other countries think we're stupid:
"You don't want your president to be seen as a 'hotdog' and when your president gets into a jumpsuit and gets in the back of a jet and lands on an aircraft carrier and then waddles out with his little straps between his legs... you want a sign of a kind of maturity and not testosterone blasting through when you're talking about things so fundamentally important as sending a nation to war and sending young men and women to their deaths."
