This year will go down as the weirdest year of my life. The entire theme of the year has been like a massive duel between Al Gore and George Bush. It is as if America has been sitting and watching a fight between these two guys. One says the world is going to end because of global warming, and the other one says the world is going to end if we don’t do something about terrorism. Each one is in an opposite corner of the ring spouting the same shit and basically offering no plan to engage one another and get the fight over with. Instead, the crowd simply sits and boos at these two people who we paid good money to watch fight each other and the fight is stuck somewhere between the entrance to the arena and them sitting on their respective stools pontificating into thin air about their respective prowess. Please, give me a break will you.
First, there is an environmental problem but it isn’t because of America but primarily due to Chinese air pollution from their use of coal fired electricity plants and their poor environmental infrastructure. China’s economic growth rate in 2007 was 10.5%, which was more than any other country in the world, yet China is included among only eight countries in the world which comprise 2/3 of the world’s 785 million illiterate adults, which is 12% illiterates in a total world population of 6.6 billion in 2007. My question is simply this. Why doesn’t Al Gore point a finger at the Chinese instead of at us here in America? Why doesn’t he fight the battle of CO2 emission along with George Bush against China rather than use his veiled threat of global warming as an excuse to hate George Bush?
And why doesn’t George Bush have enough sense to call the war on terror what it actually is? What is so hard to admit that we are considering if not outright planning a war with Iran? Why can’t he just say that this is going to require some sacrifice, but after this is done Iran will not be funding and arming terrorists ever again and Iranians will have to think long and hard about building a nuclear reactor before it reforms the crazy government they have. I blame Bush for not standing up to the media and spinning this war for what it really is. Videos on the Internet showing Iranian military parades where depictions of swords slashing a Star of David and an American flag are something I would consider to be worthy of a good day long run on the major news networks. I would run these videos over and over again until people get it. That is, radical Islam is a sickness and has to be dealt with. It is hateful and wants to kill Americans and wipe Israel off the map. So far Iran has done a pretty good job of both. They armed Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Iran armed Iraqis with IEDs. Let’s just say that Bush has some explaining to do about this war on terror and leave it at that.
In 2007 it seems we are on some kind of a journey into uncharted waters. While our politicians argue they somehow do not realize that as they fight we are having to make up our minds ourselves. Leadership is out the window. Today it’s all about viewership. The youtube phenomenon is a prime example of how voyeurism has replaced journalism. The media should be giving us the facts about global warming and the facts about the war on terror so that we can get busy and form a consensus about them both. Instead, however, the media is giving us crappy, slick productions that make no sense whatsoever. Mindless game shows that look like they got stamped out at a production line at a Hollywood studio, guys with bald heads giving fist butts to almost rabid looking contestants. One mind numbing, drawn out, overly hyped talent show after another. News anchors who sound like pharmaceutical company spokespersons. And on and on it goes as we live vicariously through the media’s rendition of what it is to be successful and happy. Whiling away the hours not knowing what the answers to our real questions are.
Sadly, there is nothing out there today that is spicing up the national conversation and motivating people to move beyond the media propaganda and get real. Unfortunately, the trend is in the opposite direction, and the preponderance of early presidential candidate debates which has reduced the candidates into media talking heads long before they ever enter office is a perfect example of how the media is training them to be like the media - edited, predictable, and commercialized. Now by the time a president enters office they already have their lines perfectly rehearsed from the playbacks, the rewinds, and the edits.
How long is it going to take for Americans to see how low they have sunk in terms of being played by the media and distracted from what is really going on out there? There is literally no action taking place in this country to address the correct conclusion to the war on terror, which is to remove the regime in Tehran and send a clear message to the Saudis to accept responsibility for having supplied 15 of the 19 September 11 hijackers. The Chinese must be also put on notice that they are playing a very deadly game environmentally and financially. Instead of issuing debt to the Chinese to pay for the war on terror, we should have a plan in place right away to pay for this ourselves. The Chinese would have to think long and hard before they build another electricity plant without U.S. dollars to pay for it.
I am sick and tired of protesting about the media, which basically has turned America into niggers. We have been played for ignorant and politically disenfranchised. We have been portrayed as inferior if we do not buy the right car, buy a house, and take medication for cholesterol, erections, depression, and sleep deprivation. But most of all we have been taught by the media that there is some kind of virtue in being a victim, and that it is better to feel sorry for ourselves for our shortcomings rather than to defend our virtues. To prove this one needs to look no further at the conspiracy theories in abundance about how the 2000 and 2004 elections were stolen, and how 9-11 was an inside job. The job of a politician ought to be to speak in a clear voice about what the strategy and objectives of our government are. Their job is not to tell us what we want to hear or what others think we need to hear. We need to hear the truth about what is going on in the world and how that truth is affecting our ability to be safe and secure. Once you go down the path of ignoring the truth, your credibility is compromised for a very long time. I would hate to see this happen to America, which is why I write about it so much right here on The Daily Nigger.
-TDN

































