In other news...

[akujunkan]

...the DPRK just sentenced Laura Ling and Euna Lee to 12 years of hard labor.

Anyone who cares to know what this means might want to take a look at these books.

Also, Jesus. My thoughts are with Ling, Lee, and their families.

That will be all.

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[wombatdeamor.livejournal.com]

lately, just listening to the news monkeys talk about health care reform and watching Obama waffle trying to be bipartisan is making me crazy. I taped Meet the Press this weekend because I wanted to see Rachel Maddow take it to Dick Armey (who's journalism got him in trouble...hehehehe).

I think our politicians should shut the fuck up and they should put Jon Stewart on the stump for health care reform. He's doing a better job refuting the right wing crazies than the president is.

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I was a bit disappointed in Meet the Press, because I felt Maddow let Armey and the other conservative Congressman talk over her far too much. And, predictably, all they did was spew talking points and lies, none of it germane to the topic at hand. But then, I've long had the impression that David Gregory is pretty damn conservative himself.

And sweet puppy-eyed Jesus, did you see Stewart's takedown of that "death panel" idiot McCaughey? That woman is the living embodiment of what it means to be a tool, and Jon Stewart is a saint for actually interviewing her. I would have started punching her in the face and never stopping within the first two minutes of her bullshit.

[wombatdeamor.livejournal.com]

I haven't had a chance to watch the entire interview...his interviews have gone long a lot lately as he gets more interesting people on, so you have go online to see the whole thing. The Jim Cramer thing was beautiful. But I did see that she got shitcanned almost the next day. I know Colbert also chewed a leg off of that dumb birther bitch, Orley Tates(??). My favorite was when Stuart called the conservative college kid out on his question of how private insurance can compete with government insurance, and Jon said, "Asked by a student at a government run school to a person who graduated from a private, for profit school."

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

I have to admit I haven't been watching much DS or CR because their respective websites force potential viewers to DL the latest edition of flashplayer or not watch. You know how I am about having shit forced on me. But after watching that little outtake of the interview that Rachel Maddow aired, I took a special trip to the library just to see the whole thing.

[wombatdeamor.livejournal.com]

I understand your pain and your willingness to battle. I also could not go without either show, so it'd be a Pyrric victory for me.

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

Well, I can watch them at the uni library when I feel like it. But really, I am having such a blast watching Rachel's show that it's not worth bothering to figure out when DS/CR is back from vacation again to get their take on things 90% of the time.

[wombatdeamor.livejournal.com]

I understand, and they are back on Monday. Rachel is indeed awesome as well. If i were in your situation and had to choose, I'd probably only watch the MSNBC duo and catch the comedy central guys when they make the news.

Monday though, I desperately want to see if Jon Stuart catches that Obama used his arguement in the congress to speech.

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

I may be cutting back to just Rachel. That shit Keith did with Glenn Beck's Rockefeller Center = teh kommunists conspiracy bit? Was more embarrassing for him than for Beck.

Dude, you're not Stewie and you're not Jon Stewart; you're a 50-year-old-man who built his image on being the next Edward Murrow and you are just hanging your ass out the window when you try to be the former.

I think Stewart will be on to Obama. Question is, in what way will he make his "told you so" funny?

[wombatdeamor.livejournal.com]

Agreed. Beck needs to have someone who daily kicks him in the nuts, but for the most part Stuart/Colbert do a good job of that. I would volunteer, but I'd probably bleed from the ears if I had to listen to more of Beck's shit than I get on the clip jobs.

Cable news as a whole disappoints me, since it's all infotainment. Most are either ideologues or trying so hard to appear inpartial that they can't ask an obvious question. "I might hurt his feelings." Rachel's good but sometimes she bores me. Keith is good but sometimes he's really not funny and it comes off as sad. and I feel like he's just as bad as fox some days when it comes to pure partisanism. (J. Garrafalo should never ever be on a news show.) Everyone else is just a blow hard. I just want some news dammit.

I actually was disappointed. He showed the clip where Obama made his point for him, but they spent so much time making fun of Joe Wilson that he didn't have time for an I told you so.

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

Seriously. I thought O'Reilly was pretty effing unbelievable. If you had told me three years ago that someone would come along whose idiocy topped his, I would have punched you in the face and stolen your wallet out of principle. And then I would have had to have felt very bad for it now, because you would have been right.

Amen on the news. It's one of the things I think NHK does really well--presenting facts with a minimum of bias (at least in 90% of cases). If we're talking the American news media, then I think Rachel is by far the best. But I'm a wonk at heart so she'd have to try very, very, very hard to bore me. Keith needs to realise that humor is not his strong point, nor is he Stewie, and just going back to being an overly serious blowhard.

And oh, Joe Wilson. I had a reeaalllly freaking hard time trying to explain that one to the Japanese people I know...

[wombatdeamor.livejournal.com]

And oh, Joe Wilson. I had a reeaalllly freaking hard time trying to explain that one to the Japanese people I know...

I bet. I'd be interested in knowing exactly how you explained it, cause I'm at a lose myself. I understand why he didn't apoligize to the House...he'd lose too many campaign donations. That's Politics 101. But the rest is mindboggling.

Anyway, screw decorum. I want a royal rumble match on the senate floor. Maybe then the goddamn liberals would be forced to have some balls and throw a literal punch or two.

either that or open primaries. but I like the WWE solution.