observations - a 600 word rant
***READER ADVISORY: this post is insensitive as hell. so is life. get over it.***
tonight, i sat in new york's laguardia airport (for only 45 minutes! yay!) awaiting my flight home after a harrowing week abroad...ie: kentucky.
as is usual in aiports these days, CNN was playing and i was forced to listen to anderson cooper stroke is ego and call it a news program. the two topics that stood out to me and almost got me in serious trouble (had i said aloud what i was thinking) were these:
first, the story of cindy sheehan and her little army of protesters who are hanging out outside president bush's ranch in texas. sheehan says she is staying put until the prez meets with her. her son died in iraq after only five days of service in 2004. she said she just wants to ask him "why her son died?" an obvious passive aggressive protest of the war and our presence in iraq.
let me stop here for a second. for those of you who don't know me, i am the political equivalent of something...else that...doesn't...care. i will not discuss, in this forum, whether or not we should be in this war or my views on the current administration. (although, i am sure if you looked really hard, you could find a couple blogs that do. *wink*) i'm just expressing my distaste for sensationalized "news." and i know i'm not alone in that.
anyway, ms. sheehan's son died in the war. okay. is this a sad thing? of course. do i support what she is doing? no. the last time i checked, our military was still a voluntary service. which means, he went over there with a sense of duty and to help others...REGARDLESS of "why" we were there in the first place. (incidentally, why don't we ever hear about the fallen soldiers who barely passed high school or beat up other kids when they were little? it's only the altar boys and eagle scouts.) i have a good feeling that the soldiers know the risk when they sign up. that said, it doesn't make any sense to me to live out your grieving process in the national spotlight just to hear one man say something he is never going to say. call me crazy, but i don't think it's worth what she is putting herself through. honestly, it makes me question her motives, whether sub-conscious or not. but, maybe i'm just an ass.
the second thing is this: natalee holloway. again, a tragic story. and this gripe has nothing to do with her, her family or anyone ACTUALLY involved. but rather with, of course, the media.
anderson cooper and his infinite smugness gleefully narrated a montage of what "our competitors are talking about today." citing that there were no new developments in the case, yet "the others" were still prattling on about it. well, good for C-N-N. aren't they great? this just made me realize that even though they weren't "reporting" about the case, they still used it to stoop to the level of sewage that is cable news.
what got me though, was in the montage, some dick from MSNBCBN..HF..N..C..or whatever, actually said, "this is the most agonizing disappearance case i have ever seen." or something like that. nice one. i can't think of a thousand case just like it that you vipers have jumped all over for about 32,000% of it's relevancy period. i really can't.
oh well, maybe except for that chadra levy case from way back in 2001. remember her?
i guess the world just needs another september 11th to be able to move on.
damn, i hate these people.
tonight, i sat in new york's laguardia airport (for only 45 minutes! yay!) awaiting my flight home after a harrowing week abroad...ie: kentucky.
as is usual in aiports these days, CNN was playing and i was forced to listen to anderson cooper stroke is ego and call it a news program. the two topics that stood out to me and almost got me in serious trouble (had i said aloud what i was thinking) were these:
first, the story of cindy sheehan and her little army of protesters who are hanging out outside president bush's ranch in texas. sheehan says she is staying put until the prez meets with her. her son died in iraq after only five days of service in 2004. she said she just wants to ask him "why her son died?" an obvious passive aggressive protest of the war and our presence in iraq.
let me stop here for a second. for those of you who don't know me, i am the political equivalent of something...else that...doesn't...care. i will not discuss, in this forum, whether or not we should be in this war or my views on the current administration. (although, i am sure if you looked really hard, you could find a couple blogs that do. *wink*) i'm just expressing my distaste for sensationalized "news." and i know i'm not alone in that.
anyway, ms. sheehan's son died in the war. okay. is this a sad thing? of course. do i support what she is doing? no. the last time i checked, our military was still a voluntary service. which means, he went over there with a sense of duty and to help others...REGARDLESS of "why" we were there in the first place. (incidentally, why don't we ever hear about the fallen soldiers who barely passed high school or beat up other kids when they were little? it's only the altar boys and eagle scouts.) i have a good feeling that the soldiers know the risk when they sign up. that said, it doesn't make any sense to me to live out your grieving process in the national spotlight just to hear one man say something he is never going to say. call me crazy, but i don't think it's worth what she is putting herself through. honestly, it makes me question her motives, whether sub-conscious or not. but, maybe i'm just an ass.
the second thing is this: natalee holloway. again, a tragic story. and this gripe has nothing to do with her, her family or anyone ACTUALLY involved. but rather with, of course, the media.
anderson cooper and his infinite smugness gleefully narrated a montage of what "our competitors are talking about today." citing that there were no new developments in the case, yet "the others" were still prattling on about it. well, good for C-N-N. aren't they great? this just made me realize that even though they weren't "reporting" about the case, they still used it to stoop to the level of sewage that is cable news.
what got me though, was in the montage, some dick from MSNBCBN..HF..N..C..or whatever, actually said, "this is the most agonizing disappearance case i have ever seen." or something like that. nice one. i can't think of a thousand case just like it that you vipers have jumped all over for about 32,000% of it's relevancy period. i really can't.
oh well, maybe except for that chadra levy case from way back in 2001. remember her?
i guess the world just needs another september 11th to be able to move on.
damn, i hate these people.
posted by cade at 10:47 PM
7 Comments:
Did you get Channel One in high school? The 15 min news show ... Anderson Cooper was one of the student anchors...along with Lisa Ling from The View. That might explain a little his news savvy.
my thoughts exactly becks. between the skittles and coke commercials the little black box was encouraging us to ask "where in the world is Coop?" i, for one, did't give a fuck. my position on this matter has not changed.
I was under the impression that Sheehan didn't want her son's death to be used as an excuse to continue to fight war "in his memory"... i'm sure she has other more personal agendas as well
i also think it's weird his hair went prematurely gray... that's just not right.
somebody needs to remind that lady that the insurgency is in its final throes.
sorry. That was an alter ego that's not quite ready for the public yet.
My comment:
Here's what pisses me right the eff off about the news, and I know this will not be any big surprise: I detest that it is all speculation.
Specifically, with the Natawhatever Holloway thing, all the channels show is alleged experts commenting on what "could" or "might" or "is possibly" happening. That. Is. Not. News. I cannot accept it and it infuckingfuriates me.
(oops. sorry. i managed the eff above but managed to get so incensed by the end that i had to use actual expletives).
hey, if there's one thing i love, it's the eff bomb dropped squarely in the middle of a multi-syllable word.
no worries.
oh, and you secret is safe with me.
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