You gotta be kidding.
I'm sitting here in the living room, typing away and listening to a television show called 'The 100 Greatest Americans' that my wife is watching, and I gotta say the folks in charge of this damn show fucked it up royally. Bobby Kennedy ranked lower than Martha Fucking Stewart?!! Teddy Roosevelt didn't even make the top 25! AAAAAAHHHH.
Well screw it. On to oblivion we go without so much as missing a step. Where is all the reverence for creating a list of the 'Greatest Americans'? And I love the fact that the writers feel its necessary to infer that its just as hard to speak out today 'against the establishment' as it was for Frederick Douglass to speak out against slavery. Where in the hell to they get this crap?
I'm more and more convinced the press has it out for GW. Allow me to paint the scene:
So they are flashing pictures of the demonstrations in New York during the RNC last year, a picture of President Bush, and the voice-over says:
"So you think its hard to speak out against the establishment these days...you should have been around when Frederick Douglass was alive..."
Then Matt Lauer rambles on about the life of Frederick Douglass while they shove in one more quick 2 second clip of a young man being dragged away by riot police.
The writer of that little storyboard is obviously trying to associate the Bush administration with the slave masters and segregationists who would have rather bashed in Douglass' head than allow him to write. The comparison is innacurate, inflammatory and irresponsible.
Where and when is it hard to speak out against the 'establishment'? Those worms they showed being the 'victims' on TV have every right to speak out. I can say anything I want right here and not suffer consequence of it, unless I threaten to harm others or profess others to do the same. Is that what's so hard to speak out against?
Get a permit, and protest anything you want, folks. Nobody will stop you.
Now that I've gotten my bitch out, I'll watch Barbara Bach kick some ass in 'From Russia with Love', even though Roger Moore is my least favorite Bond.
Well screw it. On to oblivion we go without so much as missing a step. Where is all the reverence for creating a list of the 'Greatest Americans'? And I love the fact that the writers feel its necessary to infer that its just as hard to speak out today 'against the establishment' as it was for Frederick Douglass to speak out against slavery. Where in the hell to they get this crap?
I'm more and more convinced the press has it out for GW. Allow me to paint the scene:
So they are flashing pictures of the demonstrations in New York during the RNC last year, a picture of President Bush, and the voice-over says:
"So you think its hard to speak out against the establishment these days...you should have been around when Frederick Douglass was alive..."
Then Matt Lauer rambles on about the life of Frederick Douglass while they shove in one more quick 2 second clip of a young man being dragged away by riot police.
The writer of that little storyboard is obviously trying to associate the Bush administration with the slave masters and segregationists who would have rather bashed in Douglass' head than allow him to write. The comparison is innacurate, inflammatory and irresponsible.
Where and when is it hard to speak out against the 'establishment'? Those worms they showed being the 'victims' on TV have every right to speak out. I can say anything I want right here and not suffer consequence of it, unless I threaten to harm others or profess others to do the same. Is that what's so hard to speak out against?
Get a permit, and protest anything you want, folks. Nobody will stop you.
Now that I've gotten my bitch out, I'll watch Barbara Bach kick some ass in 'From Russia with Love', even though Roger Moore is my least favorite Bond.
posted by oldman71 at 18:43
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