Public Enemy's "911 Is a Joke": The fact that the song dates back to 1990 might have been a clue for the clueless editorial team at the Washington Post . by Noah 1. THE JOURNALISTIC HAS-BEEN AWARD the late once-great (or anyway a lot better) Washington Post . Once they had reporters like Woodward-and-Bernstein. Now they publish op-eds by Sarah Palin which are filled with her usual super-double-wingnut fictions.WaPo has become either so clueless or so conservative or both that they also publish articles like the one a few weeks ago where they chastised rap group Public Enemy for their song “911 Is a Joke.” Assuming the original writer and editor(s) ever got the word, it must have come as a great surprise that the song in question is not about the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, and that Public Enemy was not saying that that sad day was a joke, as they assumed. If it was, the song might have been called “9/11 Is a Joke,” as they seemed to think. But then, I seriously doubt that Chuck D. and his group would say that. No, the song is about how 911 emergency crews won’t go to the aid of people who live in certain neighborhoods. "911," not "9/11." Get it?WaPo bother to check out the lyrics? Did the fact that the song was released 11 years before 9/11 turn on any lightbulbs over the heads of the morons at the paper? Do they still have editors there? Have the reporters there ever been to journalism school? Doubtful. The paper did issue a correction -- a week later :A Nov. 26 article in the District edition of Local Living incorrectly said a Public Enemy song declared 9/11 a joke. The song refers to 911, the emergency phone number. Nice. Very professional. We used to expect this just from the Moonie Washington Times . Now the nation’s capital has two papers that are only fit to line restaurant dumpsters and hamster cages. Expect to see the WaPo at your supermarket cash register by the end of 2010. It’s been a long, slow slide for the Post . Where will it end?2. THE KANYE WEST BORN LOSER AWARD Haven't you always wanted to do this when your favorite performer didn't win an award? Oh, you haven't? You mean, it's just Kanye West? Kanye West , who else? I have no idea what Taylor Swift’s music sounds like, and I don’t particularly care, but, having worked in the music business, I assume that she and a whole lot of people worked very hard to get her some recognition. Then her big night at the Video Music Awards comes, and this mega-jerko jumps the stage and spews to the world that she didn’t deserve her moment. As if you would know, Kanye. Born loser. Sigh, it’s so hard to fix stupid.3. THE I WEAR MY BIGOTRIES ON MY RUFFLED LACE SLEEVES AWARD Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) . It’s hard to narrow down the list of $enators and Representatives that should get a Scornie, but Foxx is more than qualified. Plus, I have family members who suffer the shame of being represented in Washington by such a dim bulb. In 2005 she was one of only 11 members of Congress to vote against the aid package for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. The following year she was one of only 33 Repugs to vote against the extension of the Voting Rights Act. Anyone see a pattern starting to emerge? Do KKK sheets come in women's sizes?not a hate crime. Contradicting both the obvious and the police reports, Foxx insists that Shepard was murdered, not because he was gay, but rather as part of a robbery -- even after packs of homophobes descended on his funeral, shouting, screaming, and depriving the funeral of any amount of dignity that had been left to the victim. Even if it had not been a hate crime, by the end of the disrupted service it was.Day 3 ), Foxx says, “It’s really a hoax that that continues to be used as an excuse for passing hate crimes bills.” Ooooh, those nasty hate crimes bills! Damn libruls wanna make hate crimes illegal! The socialists are taking away our freedoms! What’s a Repug to do?Day 1 , but here you are, the star of a category all your own.if the grieving family was offended? IF??? More important, the apology is a lie in any case. She didn't "refer to" a media account. She didn't say, "according to a 2004 ABC News 20/20 report," which by the way didn't say what she claimed it did -- nor, of course, did any other reputable media source. She had simply cherry-picked what she thought was the one media account that backed up her lie. In her statement, as you can hear, she didn't "refer" to anything; she simply stated as a matter of fact, "We know that that young man was killed in the commitment of a robbery; it wasn't because he was gay." Even after pathetically laying off the blame for her hoax on ABC, did she trouble to actually withdraw it and apologize for making a speech to Congress that was basically a lie?)4. THE DONALD J. TRUMP WHAT THE HELL IS THAT ON YO' HEAD? AWARD former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich . On January 8 of 2009, the Illinois House of Representatives voted 114 to 1 to impeach Blago for corruption and misconduct "while in office". Beside the obvious implication that such things are okay before or after one is in office, Blago’s biggest crime in the eyes of fellow politicians is not what he did; that’s just biz as usual. No, it’s that he was so careless about what he said on the phone, for the tape recorders, that he got caught and brought shame to his allegedly honorable profession.Whoo! It's Hot Rod the karaoke guy! any other politician how ? Since being caught in the act doing what most of his kind do, Blago has been a constant media presence. Is his game-show host or hairstyling-infomercial gig on the horizon? Yo, Rod, please go away.5. THE SHIT FROM SHINOLA AWARD $enate Majority Leader Harry Reid , for obvious reasons. Reid must think the majority leader’s job should really be called chief turd polisher. President Obama campaigned with a “Yes We Can” slogan. Reid and his $enatorial wrecking crew are the “No We Won’t” mob. You take all of the Repugs and mix in stealth Repugs like Lieberwhore, Ben Nelson, Blanche Lincoln, Baucus, Kent Conartist, etc., and the result was all too predictable. Money talks, and K Street apparently has more money than Obama.6. THE JOHN McCAIN GET OFF MY LAWN! AWARD "This doesn't happen in America. Maybe Ohio, but not in America." -- Homer Simpson (see below)
the man himself , the man who crashed all of those planes and still got another one because his daddy was the admiral, the man who called Obama "that one," the man who sabotaged the chances of his own election so badly by choosing a dingbat with a third-grade education as his running mate that even Diebold couldn’t save him. Watch Homer Simpson (sorry, the clip has "embedding disabled") try to vote for Obama on Election Day 2008 and discover that he's cast six votes for "President McCain," when he only meant to cast one of those votes for McCain.)7. THE HANGING'S TOO GOOD FOR 'EM AWARD Bank of America’s Ken Lewis and Morgan Stanley’s Robert Kindler . The damage done to innocent people by Wall Street firms is staggering, but just think of the staggering amount of ego and arrogance these two sidewalk slugs must have just to show themselves in public. It’s amazing. If they had a sense of honor, even one cell's worth, they would have walked out of their offices over to the Brooklyn Bridge and done society a favor and jumped.billion to the shareholders, even after Lewis got $64 million to clean out his desk and have his office sanitized and visited by an exorcist. Just imagine if he would retire from the whole country! Economic crisis solved! How about leaving the planet , or this whole plane of existence ? Truly we could then say, “Ken Lewis left the world a better place!” Don’t let the door hit ya on the way out, you reeking sack of festering puss.vice chairman, Robert Kindler, his company reportedly got $10 billion in taxpayer TARP cash, and he smirked at us all when he got his New York State vanity license plate for his new luxury land yacht and penis-extension mobile. The plate says 2BIG2FAIL . Whattaguy! That’s pretty in-your-face. I wonder how many eggs he’s had to pay to have wiped off his car so far. Apparently quite a few, since he’s had to change his plates to MNA GUY (That’s Mergers ‘n’ Acquisitions). If you’ll excuse me, I have to go buy some eggs. I may not be Peyton or Eli Manning, but I pride myself on my throwing accuracy.8. THE MISS DISINGENUOUS AWARD $en. Blanche Lincoln , a disgrace to the surname if there ever was one. Somehow, "Honest Blanche" doesn’t have the same ring to it as "Honest Abe." Blanche was for a public option before she was against it, but that was 2008. In 2009, after the insurance and pharma companies started handing her bags of cash, she decided that a public option is somehow now bad for the people of Arkansas. Money doesn’t talk, it swears!constituents . It’s about as obvious as can be that her constituents are not the people of Arkansas, but rather the slugs of K Street. Suddenly in 2009 she calls the public option an entitlement and says, “We can’t afford that right now as a nation.” Well, since the Congressional Budget Office says we can afford it and the health care plan would actually be deficit-neutral or would even lower the deficit, I have to assume that when Blanche Lincoln says “we” she is talking only about her and the friends who stuff her purse with wads of Franklins. Everybody has their price, eh, Blanche?TOMORROW: Day 11 -- Bad Vibrations Edition THE SERIES SO FAR Day 1: Con Men, Grifters, and Outlaws Edition Day 2: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same Edition Day 3: Media Manipulators and Seditionistas Edition Day 4: Teabaggers Edition Day 5: A Circus of Horrors Day 6: Toys in the Attic Edition Day 7: A Circus of Horrors, Carny Row Edition Day 8: Utter Freak Show Edition, Part 1 Day 8: Utter Freak Show Edition, Part 2 Day 9: The They Have a Right to Remain Silent, and I Wish They Would, Forever Award #
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Re: The Washington Post. After Watergate, the republicans vowed to take over the media, with the Post at the top of the list so that their criminality would never again be made public.
They have been quite successful in that regard. Too bad they couldn't have put such effort into making the country better. Instead, they have failed at literally EVERYTHING they try.
The only things they're good at are transferring money from working people to rich bastards like themselves, and replacing democracies with right-wing dictatorships.
me, As Daddy Bush says, "We have to get more money into the hands of fewer people". It's all about the redistribution of wealth upward for the sake of power, and the creation of a world of nothing but lords and serfs. Hence the tax cuts for the wealthy and the doing away with estate taxes for those who have $7 million or more. The later is something even the Walton and Gates families see as wrong, but not the Bush Crime Family. For the Bushes, a South American dictatorshio or a pre-Magna Carta set up is the goal to aspire to. They got rid of Habeas Corpus and they backed Hitler with cash.
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