Long an endangered species, common sense is being hunted to extinction as the mainstream media presents every piece of information as if it were of the same value: “Man bites dog,” “Death Panels Alleged as Key Component of Obama Health Reform,” “PETA Pickets Vick,” “________ (insert celebrity name) caught creeping….” And, of course, the objective headlines about school systems in some of the dumbest districts in America asserting the need to shield their students from hearing comments from the President of all these United States, President Obama, about the need—“Dare I say it?” (“Say It! Say It.”)—for our children (all of our children) to take responsibility for their educational success by working hard.
This is reported as a controversy? It is more controversial than a dog pissing on a fire hydrant: such pissing is an aspect of dog behavior, and the howls from the dumbest of these about our President encouraging all students to do their best are precisely the behavior of what Crazy does. This is not news.
And now the Neanderthal from South Carolina, Congressman Joe Wilson whose greatest accomplishment seems to have been a too enthusiastic embrace of the Republican play book that called for contemptuous behavior as the sole response to President Obama’s address to the joint session of Congress. Did you see Cave Man Joe the morning after? Flushed, or perhaps sporting the outcomes of the John Banner Tanning Salon, he said the Republican Leadership told him to apologize and he followed those instructions. What mindless obedience to ignorance, bad faith, and straight up lies motivates these people?
What else? Keith Obermann gave one of is patented editorials on the republican elevation of ignorance to a social, damn near moral imperative. And we are not talking about interpretation of facts. We are talking about the straight up denial of facts.
In one of his routines, Katt Williams compares America to both a pimp and a gangster: the type who will argue you down that the building that you are both watching rage with fire is not really on fire—it’s just your lying eyes. Or, the structured willingness to just make up rules as you go along.
Common sense would suggest a tidy label for this kind of crazy-ass behavior, and, once labeled, it would be left for mental health professionals to usher through some 12-step program. The media treats crazy like it really has a rational argument. We are all diminished by this, and so, once again, I content myself with scanning the news (it really doesn’t take long to identify crazy) and the “news”papers and wondering when somebody like Paul Mooney, Chris Rock, or a resurrected Richard Pryor might be hired to provide expert commentary about the stupid stuff that “leaders” are doing.
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