love this guy
his cartoons appear in the sac news and review and he's always dead on. of course, saying that must mean i'm a pinky treehugging liberal but what the hell.
ooh i just came up with a tshirt slogan!
TREEHUGGER
BUSHHATER
hee
brilliant
anyway,
this modern world
in the first paragraph of his post he so accurately said what i've felt all along:
"Not dead
But dead tired. Been on the road for two days. Got to listen to a lot of right wing talk radio. On the way up, pre-debate, they all sounded optimistic and happy. On the way back home, post-debate, they sounded let down and uncertain. I have to admit, I'm surprised by the public response (though not unpleasantly so)--this is how Bush always looks to me. So he's shifty-eyed, smirks inappropriately, doesn't seem capable of maintaining a coherent train of thought for a full ninety seconds, seems generally befuddled and irritable? Well, it's nice the media and the commentariat finally noticed, but it's not exactly as if any of this is news. Point is, when I went back to the hotel last night I was too tired to watch much post-debate spin, so I had no real idea how this was going to play--I would have been unsurprised to find that Kerry had been declared the loser, or that the whole thing had been declared a draw. I just can't tell anymore. The gulf between what I observe when watching Bush and what the media report has just grown too wide. But he did look pretty terrible to me (and to the audience of derisive young students with whom I watched the debate). He looked like someone who's spent so much time talking to yes men and sycophantic reporters and audiences who sign loyalty oaths that he's forgotten what it's like to have someone actually challenge him to his face when he conflates Saddam and Osama."
ooh i just came up with a tshirt slogan!
TREEHUGGER
BUSHHATER
hee
brilliant
anyway,
this modern world
in the first paragraph of his post he so accurately said what i've felt all along:
"Not dead
But dead tired. Been on the road for two days. Got to listen to a lot of right wing talk radio. On the way up, pre-debate, they all sounded optimistic and happy. On the way back home, post-debate, they sounded let down and uncertain. I have to admit, I'm surprised by the public response (though not unpleasantly so)--this is how Bush always looks to me. So he's shifty-eyed, smirks inappropriately, doesn't seem capable of maintaining a coherent train of thought for a full ninety seconds, seems generally befuddled and irritable? Well, it's nice the media and the commentariat finally noticed, but it's not exactly as if any of this is news. Point is, when I went back to the hotel last night I was too tired to watch much post-debate spin, so I had no real idea how this was going to play--I would have been unsurprised to find that Kerry had been declared the loser, or that the whole thing had been declared a draw. I just can't tell anymore. The gulf between what I observe when watching Bush and what the media report has just grown too wide. But he did look pretty terrible to me (and to the audience of derisive young students with whom I watched the debate). He looked like someone who's spent so much time talking to yes men and sycophantic reporters and audiences who sign loyalty oaths that he's forgotten what it's like to have someone actually challenge him to his face when he conflates Saddam and Osama."
2 Comments:
At 12:08 AM,
Anonymous said…
oooooooooooo...i like that quote. it generally speaks to what i have been feeling to; that the media can no longer be seen as the "objective eye". the viewing public has been shafted, shifted, shitted and sharted on. journalism is not so much the "objective eye", as the bought and paid for "brown eye."
perfectly blinded by its own bullshit.
having said that, the viewing audience would like to strongly advice that we would like to read more "akee posts", as to someone elses quotes. once in 153667782789962716423 posts is ok.
but no more, akee.
no. more.
yours faithfully,
a reader.
At 5:53 PM,
Anonymous said…
we want more blog!
more i tellsyah!
signed,
not monkey
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