May 3, 2008
Jeremiah-mania
A talking head today justified the mainstream media's
raging erection for all things Jeremiah Wright by saying that it is clearly
a legitimate news story because it is getting so much coverage. So,
if you'd just STFU about it and instead discuss relatively minor matters
like casualties in a war begun with a lie, a faltering economy, the lack of
health care coverage that affects 47 million Americans, the abysmal state of
education in America, the obscene war-profiteering in which Cheney-connected
companies are engaged, the McBush opposition to a veterans' bill on the
basis that it treats veterans too well, global warming, America's
dependence on China for cash and on OPEC for oil, a bleeding job market,
food riots on the other side of the world, race and racism in America,
recession, stagflation, discernible conflict among the lower, middle,
working, upper and corporate classes, the brutalizing effect that the Iraq
War has had on American military readiness, etc., then it wouldn't be a
newsworthy issue and you wouldn't cover it?
Hmm, "I think, therefore I am," I can understand (even if
I do disagree with it), but "I obsess over it, therefore it is important"
just doesn't strike me the same way.
