Jackass of the Day Award
Today’s Jackass of the Day Award goes to another Senator for an assanine comment that makes her truly worthy of the award. Today’s recipient is Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey (D-Ca.) for the following insanely stupid comment on April 15 (tax day):
Right now, millions of Americans are hurrying to report their incomes to the IRS. Usually, “IRS” stands for “Internal Revenue Service,” but today, it might as well stand for “Iraq revenue suppliers” because so much of our tax revenue is paying for the occupation of Iraq.
Oh, I listened to the whole thing and my ears started to bleed. Let me fill you in on the important statements she made (and I will fill in the blanks) “Blah, blah, blah, propaganda this, propaganda that, our military is broken, blah, blah… I don’t care that all of the evidence points to the contrary, blabber, blab. I’m using this moment for my own political agenda, blah, blah, blah. American people are paying too much for the war, but Congress needs a raise, blah, blah, blah, I don’t give a crap about the total waste of tax dollars that we are guilty of here on Capitol Hill, blah, blah, blah, me-me-me, blah blah.”
I hope she wears it with pride! Politics as usual.
I came across your blog on Technorati. Nice site layout. I will stop by and read more soon.
Mike Harmon
You’re suffering from ear fatigue caused by overwhelming blather.
Blather (which rhymes with Rather) is planned obfuscation of the truth –if they swamp you with foaming rhetoric which is incomprehensible, you’ll grow weary and ignore the important news.
In the newsrooms where I’ve worked, there is this saying:
“If you can’t blind ‘em with brilliance, baffle ‘em with BS”.
You’ll know it when you see/hear it.
Al
Hi Mark, I hope you come back. The layout has been a process in the making, but I think it’s serving me well. It’s been fun customizing it all. Hope to see you again!
Al! You hit the nail right on the head! I just knew there had to be a name for my condition! Furthermore, I am very impressed. How in the world you have worked in this industry without blowing a gasket is beyond me!
Claire: I had the advantage of working in small town radio, then training in the Navy and at DINFOS (Defense Information School, Fort Ben Harrison) and finally in TV. Knowing when to keep my head down and when to take a shot helped me through, but of course, it was a challenge.
It was great fun to laugh at crying little wussie journalist girlies in the newsroom the night s Reagan won (both times), and when you know you’re right, you know you’re right, so that girds your loins, so to speak. :-).
Now retired, I can take potshots with impunity, sit back and analyze, and make my day by whizzing off libs who try to post spam and are moderated out of the loop.
As you are a citizen journalist (courts have ruled on this), and publish on a regular basis, you are afforded all the press protections, m’dear.
I’ll be publishing shortly a list of all the things bloggers are legally allowed to print, and the pictures they are allowed to take. Good stuff there, and should be required knowledge for all free peoples and the press in particular.
Keep on keepin’ on, thanks for the good work and your service to our country.
Al C.