Can a system this bankrupt survive?
On ABC, the Anti-Christ Broadcasting Company, a bunch of brain-dead yahoos asked Senator Barack Obama, whose lightning campaign to take the country back from the neo-Nazis running it has manifestly scared the shit out of them, whether he loved the American flag.
Really.
No questions about an economy careening toward oblivion. Virtually nothing about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Nothing about social security, Medicare, joblessness, the housing debacle. The ABC jerkoffs wanted to know instead why Obama doesn’t wear a flag on his lapel.
The latest issue of urgent concern to America’s voters is, evidently, whether Obama will condemn a fellow named Bill Ayers who, thirty-five years ago, helped lead the radical Weather Underground. Why? Because Obama was a member several years back of a community board on which Ayers sat.
Really.
It may not help Obama with the media that, at the time Ayers and his friends were setting off bombs, the Senator was 8 years old.
There are, by official estimates, 320,000 American troops suffering from brain injuries. The media don’t care. They want to know, instead, about Jeremiah Wright.
As a nation, we’ve got to find a way out of this morass. Public life is not a game show. What is probably the most important, defining presidential race in forty years is being reduced to a sack race at the company picnic.
Let;’s try this: let’s each of us take some small measure of responsibility and use the internet to educate our fellow citizens. Let’s end-run the bullshit. Sign-up for TruthOut or Buzzflash or Alternet and grab the real news, check it out, pass it on.
