Absolutely love this Cracked article: [typography font="Droid Serif" size="18" size_format="px" color="660000"]5 Ways to Spot a B.S. Political Story in Under 10 Seconds.[/typography] There is a language warning, but otherwise a very useful tool for those undiscerning individuals who still believe politicians and their lapdog, Media. Even if you consider yourself a jaded pro, it’s an eye opener – or at the very least will confirm your suspicions.
At least 90% of all political stories in the media are absolute bullshit, which is one of the reasons politics has lost its luster for me. Politics may be addicting, but today’s news stories are a cross between reality t.v. and soap operas, neither of which I like much. Both are scripted, emotional and desperate to please an audience too distracted by real life and Facebook to do their due diligence and are just watching the highlights for the thrills and something to talk about at work.
Sigh. I’ve become cynical.
The president has chosen his new slogan: [typography font="Droid Serif" size="24" size_format="px"]Forward[/typography]. Or Vorwärts!
Wow, I am so blown away by his lack of creativity. ‘Forward’ produces questions. Forward where? Maybe he should have stuck with ‘hope’ and ‘change’. At least people now know where that change is taking them. I guess they could hope it takes them in a better direction…
Just for fun… there are some talented photoshoppers out there…
He couldn’t be any more obvious of his communist leanings if he had a hammer and sickle on his slogan.
That’s probably next…
Back when I was in Boot Camp, and Mastodons and Sabre Tooth Cats ruled the Earth, my DI got somehow angry* about how some of us were slow to follow marching orders. So he had the whole outfit put our laundry buckets over our heads and he drilled us, for what felt like weeks. Anyone who didn’t follow the command got ran over. Oh and you haven’t lived until a DI has beat on that bucket with a swagger stick or, worse, the butt of an M-14.
The difference here is that Obama has his head stuck in the damned bucket as well as all of his followers. and they can’t hear us say that they’re marching directly for the slough. Too bad we can’t get all these bucketheads to peek!
*Imagine that, a DI getting angry at the Boots!
Bucketheads. Heh… Yup. But I hear some of them are sliding the bucket back and taking a look around…
Using Cracked’s criteria, pretty much 99.8% of political stories are bullshit. Narrows things down quite a bit.
I’m sick of it. Just saw a headline ‘screaming’ about the ‘blasting’ a commentator gave someone.
A reporter. Who gives a fresh fig what a talking head says? They’re supposed to report, now they make news themselves and it makes me care less about ANYTHING they say.
On Breitbart this morning, two of the headlines were totally wrong. After reading the articles, I found that the headlines blatantly LIED. What, for effect?
Those were the only two I read, needless to say. I’m over it.
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