What the fluff? Patrick Kennedy, having ruled out reelection, went on a paradoxical House floor tirade. His target? It wasn't the GOP. Nor Scott Brown. Nor George Bush. Nor "the past eight years".
What was it? The media. Of all things, the media. The "cynical" media, as he calls "it"*. Railing against the lack of press coverage of the Afghan war, Kennedy pointed up at the gallery, shook his fist, gnashed his teeth, and decried the newsmen.
Was this a stunt? Are you kidding, Patty? The press has praised, promoted, covered for, and lied to protect the Kennedy family for 50 years. After all they have done to shield America's royalty from negative public opinion, Patrick blasted away. Left-wing reporters across the nation must be feeling as though they've been had.
This is the ultimate betrayal. In liberal eschatology, Kennedy will be in a lower circle of hell than Brutus, Cassius, and the Iscariot...and Joe Lieberman.
*One should not refer to the media as "it", since "media" is plural. The singular usage would be "medium".
Plural: The media are sadly devoted to left-wing causes.
Singular: The medium of print news is dying.
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Required Reading: "Time" Top Ten Lists
Paradoxically, despite its questionable leanings, I like Time magazine.
I like it because it is well written, comprehensive, and not nearly as nakedly partisan and obnoxious as other similar broad-scope commentary magazines tend to be. Let's be honest: Newsweek is just about unreadable these days, what with its replacement of good writing with inflammatory, subpar, college-level snarkiness. If I had a nickel for every time that Newsweek gave President Obama an "up" arrow rating in its weekly, over-simplified "who's up, who's down" featurette, I'd be rich. (Actually, I'd be richer if I had a nickel for every "down" arrow that they've given Dick Cheney, who seems to be the target of Newsweek jeers every day; maybe they're running out of other stuff to talk about).
Anyways, Time it is, and the Time year-end feature is now online, consisting of fifty separate top ten lists for the year (everything from the usual Ten Best Movies to more obscure stuff, such as Ten Most Awkward Moments and Ten New Weird Species). I highly recommend parsing this for at least a little while. There is some useful information here, and if nothing else, the exhaustive lists will jog your memory of 2009's most interesting news stories and events.
It can be both depressing and enlightening to relive a year in public affairs. Here you will be reminded of the heroism of our soldiers in the Middle East, and you will relive the irrelevant hype surrounding Octomom. You will read about the monumental debate surrounding congressional healthcare bill, and you will see the faces of Lindsay Lohan, Susan Boyle, and Miley Cyrus. The panorama of America, in all its complication, gloriousness, and stupidity, is such a thing to behold.
I like it because it is well written, comprehensive, and not nearly as nakedly partisan and obnoxious as other similar broad-scope commentary magazines tend to be. Let's be honest: Newsweek is just about unreadable these days, what with its replacement of good writing with inflammatory, subpar, college-level snarkiness. If I had a nickel for every time that Newsweek gave President Obama an "up" arrow rating in its weekly, over-simplified "who's up, who's down" featurette, I'd be rich. (Actually, I'd be richer if I had a nickel for every "down" arrow that they've given Dick Cheney, who seems to be the target of Newsweek jeers every day; maybe they're running out of other stuff to talk about).
Anyways, Time it is, and the Time year-end feature is now online, consisting of fifty separate top ten lists for the year (everything from the usual Ten Best Movies to more obscure stuff, such as Ten Most Awkward Moments and Ten New Weird Species). I highly recommend parsing this for at least a little while. There is some useful information here, and if nothing else, the exhaustive lists will jog your memory of 2009's most interesting news stories and events.
It can be both depressing and enlightening to relive a year in public affairs. Here you will be reminded of the heroism of our soldiers in the Middle East, and you will relive the irrelevant hype surrounding Octomom. You will read about the monumental debate surrounding congressional healthcare bill, and you will see the faces of Lindsay Lohan, Susan Boyle, and Miley Cyrus. The panorama of America, in all its complication, gloriousness, and stupidity, is such a thing to behold.
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