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I haven't posted in a while.


This is because I'm not in the habit of speaking when I have nothing to say.


I promise this pattern will continue.


Today's topic is journalism, or lack thereof.


I get most of my news by watching the Daily Show.


I know, tsk tsk.


But as an interesting experiment, I have done what others have dreaded, fearing the devastating effects on the rational human mind.


I watched cable news for a whole day.


Here are my thoughts:


The job of the objective journalist is to try and show the meaning of events in a societal context.


Any one piece of news is uninteresting, the job of an objective journalist is to show the larger meaning behind events.


Bias is not a central issue, because it's impossible to eliminate. The reader is left to decide whether they agree or disagree.


This is the style exemplified by Edward R. Murrow. In spite of enormous social pressure, he unmasked McCarthy as a vile demagogue. The interesting point is that the objective truth about McCarthy was an opinion.


The whole point of freedom of speech is that we can state our opinions as fact. They can be argued, debated, ridiculed, but they can always be said.


Here's what I've learned from watching our news;


We're a mute society.


For some reason, the alphabet soup networks, (CNN, MSNBC, ABC) have decided that impartiality is an element of good journalism.


They have made the news so impartial that it has become inhuman. It's a constant stream of simple data, each fact having no more importance than the next.


It's the news for robots.


They speak and blather, but they don't SAY anything.


CNN is so obsessed with their weird tech toys that half the time they have no idea what they are saying.


MSNBC must have an entire team working on a way to shove more jabbering heads onto a single TV screen.


ABC fills it's news hours with meaningless stories with absolutely no purpose.


They all have the same problem, they're unwatchable by human beings.


After watching the news for a full 24-hours I can honestly say there is only one network that still does journalism.


Fox News.


Gasp. Ack. Vomit. That was hard to write.


But no matter how heinously wrong, intentionally deceitful and totally, mind-bendingly stupid, they say what they think.


Fox News does the news for human beings.


Scared, angry, and ultimately unfortunate human beings.


That's why they have higher ratings than any other network, because no matter how perverted, foolish and wrong they are, they are telling the truth. As they see it.


Don't get me wrong, they knowingly lie all the time. Their "opinions" are carefully manufactured by a industrial complex designed to manufacture divisive opinions.


But they don't lack for a point of view.


And in our mute society, the man with the voice is king.


But there is hope.


There is real demand for the Truth. And a few years ago that demand found a supply.


The essence of political comedy is Truth.


The thing that makes one laugh, is the way the comedian deconstructs the half truths that we all pay lip service to, to expose the real Truth underneath.


If a political comedian is not truthful, they are not funny and quickly need a new line of work.


This is why I watch the Daily Show. They are the only news program whose economic incentive is to tell the truth.


The Daily Show and the Colbert Report have succeeded because they do the news for human beings.


Bright, funny, and ultimately reasonable human beings.


They have become a force for real, positive news.


But this cannot last.


They didn't sign up for this.


Someone needs to take up the torch.
Someone needs to speak the truth.
Someone needs to reclaim that clarion call:


The Vox Populi


The Voice of the People.


So my question is:


What have you SAID recently?

The Difference

What's the difference between the Republicans and the Democrats?


Answer: The Republicans lie, and the Democrats don't tell the truth.


The Republican lie honestly.


They lie right to your god-damned face.


And they smile while they do it.


The Republican message is crafted. It's created by companies that use focus groups and polling to figure out exactly what phrase they need to say to make all the hamsters run on the wheel.


Their philosophy is to say anything to confuse you into voting for them.


The core of this philosophy is a rotten Truth:


The Republicans don't give a fuck about your opinion.


They don't care what your politics are. Conservative. Liberal. Libertarian. Radical Trans-human Monarchist.


To them, you're a machine.


A machine who, inconveniently, has a vote.


They have no ideals.
They have no boundaries.
They have no ethics.


Their only belief is that they should be in charge.


They'll sacrifice anything for that.




The Democrats tell the truth like it's a lie.


The Republicans call the Democrats spineless, effete, overly-intellectual, east-coast pansies.


They're right.


The sad fucking truth is that most people would agree with the Dems if they knew what the Dems stood for.


But the Dems don't have the sack to tell them.


They're so god-damned worried that they'll offend someone, they don't even have an opinion anymore.


Just think about the 2004 election.


It was a sure thing.


The President was a retarded monkey.


The Democrats snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.


They found the one fucking person who could lose, and ran him.


John Kerry lost because they convinced everyone he was a pussy. He gave them no reason to think otherwise.


So the man with the purple heart lost to the man who spent Vietnam doing blow and not reporting to his post in the National Guard.


Obama showed promise, but they put the muzzle on him, so that ignorant racists wouldn't think he was a uppity black man.


I wanted an uppity black man.


While the Republicans might be evil, the Democrats are pathetic.


I'll choose evil every time.




Neither party tells the Truth.


They bicker about whether a .3% tax increase makes us Socialists.
Or whether gays should be able to get married or "married".


The Truth:


Americans are poorer and less educated than we've ever been.
The people who broke our economy got away scott-fucking-free.
China is sucking up demand and prolonging the world recession.


And our national debt is greater than any nation's in the history of the world. Ever.


We have to bring back the Truth.


The clock is ticking.

Why I'm Doing This

I hate blogs.


We should begin with that understanding.


The vast majority are made up of insipid personal whining, not worth the data bits used to store them.


So why make a blog?


Simple.


To tell the Truth.


Not the unbiased truth, not the "fair and balanced" truth, not the spoon-fed, factory designed, Gerber baby bullshit that we're constantly being bombarded with every day.


The real Truth.


So I'll make you a promise.


I'll write to make you laugh.
I'll write to make you pissed.
I'll write to, above all, make you think.


I will never, ever, lie to you.


I'm here to tell the Truth.


Nothing else matters.