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Mon Mar-12-07 10:57 PM
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A Late Night Rant

A Late Night Rant
By Nancy Greggs

I consider myself to be a pretty tolerant person. I am usually willing to listen to those I disagree with, and give them the benefit of the doubt. I am, I believe, incredibly patient with the ill-informed and ill-advised, and tend to bite my own tongue rather than hurt the feelings of a fellow human being.

HOWEVER …

There are times when the idiocy is more than I can bear, and the mindlessness makes me want to scream.

Could some of you out there – and you know who you are – do me, your fellow citizens, and the world at large, a huge favor and PLEASE SHUT UP?

I don’t want to hear it. I’ll go a step further: Nobody wants to hear it – and those who still do are all watching FOX-News right now, so your target audience is already otherwise engaged.

I don’t want to hear that CNN is the most trusted name in news. There is no such thing as a trusted name in news anymore – and if there was, CNN wouldn’t qualify in either the ‘trusted’ or ‘news’ categories. SO SHUT UP.

I don’t want to hear that David Gergen is part of the ‘best political team on television’ – the man who stated that previous to the Libby verdict, this administration had never been touched by scandal. When you do your Terri Schiavo Retrospective, please feel free to include him as part of the discussion about the brain-dead. Until then, please SHUT UP.

I don’t want to hear about all of the ‘successes’ we’re having in Iraq – especially from Dick ‘The Insurgency is in its Last Throes’ Cheney. If I had a buck for every time this guy lied through his teeth, I could have bought the entire Middle East and still had enough left over for a more than generous tip. NOTE TO THE DICK: SHUT UP.

I don’t want to hear Laura Bush’s opinion on anything, no less how the media is discouraging optimism about our imminent victory in Iraq by playing up that ‘one bombing per day’. Jesus, Mary and Joseph – if this woman ever runs out of the pharmaceuticals that keep her in her present zombie-like state of denial, call me – ‘cause that’s going to make for some great viewing. Until then, SHUT UP.

I don’t want to hear the phrase ‘Support the Troops’ coming out of the mouths of the same Republicans who cut military pay and benefits, and didn’t want to speak up about Walter Reed because they didn’t want to embarrass the Army. When you people start feeling embarrassed by the way our wounded military are being warehoused in conditions that are beneath the dignity of a cockroach, let me know – until then, SHUT UP.

I don’t want to hear Karl Rove’s predictions about the 2008 election. The country is about to embrace another Bush-like president? Karl, sit down and read your guy’s poll numbers – you know, the math! For a Boy Genius, you sure are one dumb f*ck. SO SHUT UP.

I don’t want to hear yet another sermon from the Fundamentalist Christians who persist in preaching to me about what Jesus Would Do. I don’t for a minute pretend that Christ turns up on my doorstep on a regular basis and camps out on my couch – but I do know that if he did, he wouldn’t keep me up all night extolling the virtues of tax-cuts for the wealthy, turning a blind eye to the poor, and the necessity of accepting TORTURE as part of the American way of life. So in the name of all that is holy, PLEASE SHUT UP.

I don’t want to hear Bill Kristol or any of his PNAC buddies talking about the necessity of kids dying in Iraq in order to protect the freedoms that this administration dispose of every time a certain Idiot scrawls his name on a signing statement with a crayola. Let me say it in terms even you can understand, Billy: Sign up for active duty or SHUT UP.

I don’t want to hear Glenn Beck – or anyone else from the “Don’t Let a Low IQ Hold You Back” Club – spouting hate-mongering talking points and then telling me how he got there. You got there because there are enough too-lazy-to-change-the-channel couch-potatoes who are still sober enough to answer the phone when a Neilson rep calls and asks so what are you watching right now? Pray they don’t bring back Prohibition, Beck. And by the way, please stop calling yourself a ‘rodeo clown’. Rodeo clowns both entertain and serve a purpose – while you do neither. SO SHUT UP.

I don’t want to hear that Ann Coulter is just funnin’ and I don’t get the joke. I don’t want to hear intellectual geniuses like Inhofe lecturing me on global warming. I don’t want to hear anything from Limbaugh, O’Reilly, Malkin, or any of the other spinmeisters who think screeching their nonsense at an ear-piercing level is somehow a substitute for the facts.

I don’t want to hear the phrases Family Values, Moral Majority, Compassionate Conservatives, Fiscal Responsibility from people who demonstrate on a daily basis their total disconnect from any of the aforementioned.

I DON’T WANT TO HEAR IT. And as we all know, it’s my world – it’s all about me.

Rant over – please go back to your previously scheduled activities. Thanks for listening.