Saturday, March 22, 2003


The media's at it again...

Hours on end they show us realtime footage of shit getting blown up. In other words: the war.

Then they spend the next hour showing us recorded-earlier footage of protesters. In other words: the anti-war brigade.

Finally, they sometimes cut into whatever it is they're showing us at the time to show us (sometimes in realtime and sometimes previously-recorded) footage of the government folks saying stuff. In other words: the war brigade.

So, what *doesn't* the media show us? Well, they don't show us the liberated Iraqis as often as they should (that's the thank-goodness-you're-here brigade), they certainly wouldn't DARE show us the enough-already! argument (the fed-up brigade), and it seems that they've all but done completely away with the let's "sit down and discuss this rationally like civilized people should" thing so we NEVER hear from the voices of reason brigade!

They wouldn't dare- they want ratings, "stories", and something to "sell". They stopped "selling" true reason a long time ago (if they ever "sold" it at all). When will the level-headed get a chance to explain it in plain English to the masses? Easy: get the masses to shut up and calm down long enough to actually understand what's being said to them.

Will it ever happen? No.

Now you know why this whole darn war thing is such a mess. Now you know why I'd rather just watch the war footage than listen to one more minute of people deliberately blocking traffic and thereby making their freedom of assembly not peaceful and getting themselves arrested. If you're blocking traffic, then you're not assembling peacefully. And blocking traffic downtown will have no bearing whatsoever on the hunt for Saddam Hussein and the liberation of Iraq. And no we don't want their oil.

But oil certainly change the channel on *you*!

in case you didn't get it, that was a phonetic pun: oil/I'll
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