"News analysis"? A Rant.

[elperromagico]

Let's follow my reactions to the "news analysis" of a Bush speech on the 24 hour news networks, shall we?

I'm sooo thankful for the constant captioning on every 24 hour news network. Dubya delivers his standard "policy talk" (read: fundraiser) speech. And what's this at the bottom of my TV screen? Why, it's a paraphrase of what Our Enlightened Leader just said! "Bush: Tax Cuts Make Economy Stronger."

Gee thanks, MSNBC! I can walk the streets again, secure in the knowledge that there are news networks to tell me what Boosh said just five seconds before! Ahh. *deep breath* I feel so... so... enlightened!

And what's this on Fox? Why, it's someone telling me that this is Bush's greatest speech! Thanks, Mr. Colmes - but couldn't you let Hannity get a word in edgewise every now and again?!? Poor guy hardly gets a chance to speak!

Back to MSNBC, I guess --- Oh, look, it's the oh-so-bipartisan Peggy Noonan. What's that you say, Peggy? Greatest President since... since... Reagan?!? Wow. Way to go Georgie! All you need is a jar of jellybeans and you'll be the Second Coming of the ALMIGHTY SAINT RONNIE (cue flourish)!

Yes, of course, Chris Matthews - that was a very Churchillian moment when Bush said, "We're smokin' 'em out." And I really saw elements of Gladstone when he shook his shoulders and giggled like a stoned eight year old. And that smirk! That smirk! Oh, Peggy, I see you've wet your seat...

[dbt]

1. Yo, EPM. Greetings from the Home Land!

Did you write this before or after your head exploded? Too much TV, I says! The Aussies used to have an expression: Too right!

:hi:
dbt

[elperromagico]

3. It's been brewing for at least two years.

Probably longer. I for one am not quite so dense that I need to be told by someone in a suit what someone else in a suit just said.

I suspect I'm in the minority :(.

[Bronco69]

2. LOL!

My sentiments exactly! :-)

[elperromagico]

6. Thanks.

[Racenut20]

4. As I hook my thumbs in the suspenders

of my bib overalls, after putting my toothpick back in my mouth....I am thinkin. "Just leave 'Ole George in there a while longer and heel kick all them A_Rabs asses."

[elperromagico]

5. I'll tell ya whut,

I like ol' George Dubya cuz he's a decent, moral feller. He ain't gettin' no blow-jobs in the White House like that feller who was in thar befur him.