Speaking of Fox News, here’s a quote from Sunday December 17, 2006:
Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single democratic primary. I’ll predict that right now.
Who said it? Conservative Bill Kristol. As Mark Nickolas (the guy who dug up this gem) says, “This is why so many people laugh at Kristol’s political analyses, in general.” Of course, that didn’t stop Kristol from getting a column at the NY Times. Sigh.
Just before Obama’s nationally televised speech on June 3, he and his wife did a “fist bump”. Apparently, Fox News is so out of it that they had never seen this before, and had to ask if this was (and I’m not making this up) “A terrorist fist jab?”
Attention Fox News, there is this new thing out there called the “Internet” where you can look up stuff. But you don’t even have to do it yourself, since Media Matters did a quick Internet search and came up with more than a dozen photos of numerous athletes, celebrities, and politicians getting their fist bump on. And none of them look even slightly like terrorists.
Couldn’t the lapdog media in the US have done this? It took an investigation by the BBC to find out that an estimated $23 BILLION has been lost, stolen, or “merely” not accounted for in Iraq. To date, no major US contractor has been indicted for these stunning abuses.
Why can’t we hear about this in the US? Because we have a gagging order that prevents discussion of it. According to the BBC, “While George Bush remains in the White House, it is unlikely the gagging orders will be lifted.”
While our politicians argue about whether we should bomb Iran or meet with their leaders, the well-known travel writer Rick Steves takes a film crew to Iran and finds, according to him, some of the friendliest people on the planet.
It’s ironic that in most countries these days, Americans find they’re better off keeping a low profile. But here, in a country I’m told hates me, my nationality has been a real plus — absolutely everywhere I’ve gone. … And I have absolutely never traveled to a place where I had such an easy and enjoyable time connecting with people. Young, educated people speak English. Locals were as confused about and fascinated by me as I was about them.
Steves paints a surprisingly candid account of life in Iran, from the friendliness of the people, the propaganda billboards, to the strictly conformist universities. Anyone who has any curiosity about life in a modern Muslim nation should read his blog entries about the trip.
Just as it is with Christians and gays, just because we say nasty things about you doesn’t mean we hate you. Good Christians hate the sin and love the sinner. We love white. We just hate whitey.
The first (actually, the only) item on the agenda was revenge — how to pay whitey back. Some of you have obviously been dreading this since the end of Reconstruction. Obama practically has to tattoo the flag on his ass to convince you he’s not out to get you. Judging from your behavior, I suppose you’ve just put yourselves in our shoes and realized that if the roles were reversed, revenge is all you’d think about.
We all celebrated by bumping our knuckles together. It’s not a “terrorist fist bump” as Fox News suggested. It’s the International Get Whitey Bump. Just make a fist and bump, bump, bump your knuckles against your neighbor’s.
Reporter: “Why did you say that?” McCain: “I’m sure for all the wrong reasons.” Reporter: “And those wrong reasons would be?” McCain: “For ambition.” Reporter “For ambition?” McCain: “Sure.”
In other words, for the sake of his ambition (to get elected), McCain will lie.
It’s ironic that in most countries these days, Americans find they’re better off keeping a low profile. But here, in a country I’m told hates me, my nationality has been a real plus — absolutely everywhere I’ve gone. … And I have absolutely never traveled to a place where I had such an easy and enjoyable time connecting with people. Young, educated people speak English. Locals were as confused about and fascinated by me as I was about them.
