December 27, 2004
America, f*ck yeah
I try to start the day well-rested, confident and relatively clean. But sometimes, I strut into work confused after seeing a bizarre article, apropos of nothing, on the cover of the Moonie Times. A recent example is when the paper speculated above the fold on page A1 about who Gov. Ehrlich will pick as a successor, even before his re-election.
Today's head-scraticher is an article about how awesome and dominant America is throughout the world. The accompanying picture, as if you couldn't guess, is of George W. Bush on a television set. How droll.
Question 1: If the Moonies, the WSJ editorial page and the rest of that little cabal spent the entire Clinton Administration boom claiming that the current prosperity was the result of Reagan-era policices, do you think they'll say the same of Clinton when things start to look up during this administration?
Question 2: How do they reconcile using half the article attributing American "soft power" to the media and using the other half attributing it to how religious Americans are while at the same time decrying that same media for corrupting our morals? Is it OK to project freedom and democracy abroad through bad movies because it harms the morals of foreigners, putting us at the top of the productivity/godly pack by default? Is bad television a psychological weapon?
Question 3: Why the everlovin' f*ck is that fluff piece placed in a more prominent spot than the giant tidal wave in the Indian Ocean? Does the worldwide gross of Hulk matter more to the Rev than tens of thousands of deaths? Granted, Moon has presided over larger weddings, but come on now!
Posted by rj3 at December 27, 2004 12:03 PM
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