Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Thursday, April 26, 2007
Ho, Ho, Ho...it's the end of racism and sexism
have you seen the film lenny?
on a slightly different theme i want to ban entire ways of speaking. for example, the word ‘like’ now means ‘said’.
e.g.
“and i was like no way and she was like it’s true”
etc
it annoys me greatly.
Posted by michael on from scotland 04/26 at 05:12 AMI propose the word ‘censorship’ be banned forthwith. No alternate spellings with zeros or threes, either.
Here’s to people who speak English as a second language and know grammar (and politics) better than American college graduates.
Posted by Zen Prole on from Urth 04/26 at 09:03 AMOops… meant to mention how LAME the Bill Moyers special was last night. “You mean to say that people in power, and their stenographers, lie?” I’m, like, scandalized ‘n’ shit.
Captcha sez ‘mean’? I’m on ‘simmer’ right now, so don’t push it.
Posted by Zen Prole on from Urth 04/26 at 09:06 AMwell...there is this:
http://tinyurl.com/yo6aoband this:
http://tinyurl.com/287x5mbut i guess its just easier to say “SHUT UP” than talk about anything real
Posted by Frances on from bc, canada 04/26 at 09:23 AMThank you, Zen! I am watching this supposed “masterpiece of journalism” last night about how the media failed us 5 or 6 years ago…
Fucking incredible.
I don’t even know what to say about it...it just pisses me off.
Posted by JOS on from Chicago 04/26 at 09:25 AMWassup, niggaz?
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 04/26 at 10:10 AMwell… i have been sitting outside on a hot day with the dog, trying to write something.
Posted by michael on from scotland 04/26 at 10:12 AMHa! Mickey...you’re the only one handling this topic correctly. Dead on and funny too. In fact, I don’t feel the need to add anything to the discussion.
Posted by JOS on from Chicago 04/26 at 10:14 AMi should stress that it is the dog doing the writing. i am just there for her to bounce ideas off
Posted by michael on from scotland 04/26 at 10:28 AMSurely you mean “dawg,” Michael.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 04/26 at 10:31 AMRE the PBS special last night: At least Walter Pincus of the Wash. Post admitted that in 1981 the last mainstream truth tellers of the press had alas transferred this vital responsibility to the Dems. There began an overwhelming consensus or tacit knowledge within the field of journalism that obtaining the “straight dope” could only come from the spokespeople of the left/right perspective. Pincus himself said that everyone in the press had more or less agreed to “ease” up on the uncomfortably stammering Reagan. The political machine seized the moment and completely fortified itself against surprise attacks. Hence, the birth of a whole new and completely twisted model of propaganda. I believe the collective perception of what little fight for the truth we still had was totally abandoned at that moment in time. Look, I’m as angered by all the “go along to get along” people as any other. But many people who haven’t explored the truth with such veracity as we do are actually rejoicing from what this special revealed. Isn’t it possible to go back to when it all began, relatively speaking, so more folks can see the big picture of the last two decades? captcha sez “easy”
Posted by dw on from Cincinnati, Ohio 04/26 at 10:31 AMHi everyone...Frances, I clicked on the 2 above links...both had a picture of John McCain...quickly left that website...does anyone get the idea, besides his political views, that have no validity...does anyone get the idea McCain’s elevator doesn’t go to the top floor. I feel all politicians are crazy...but McCain, well...? Boy america has really become the septic system of the universe!
Posted by joe of maine on from 04/26 at 10:32 AMThats ok JOe, all I was trying to say with those links is
we are all people of colour
we are all subject to colonial oppression
those in power would rather have us divided by and focused on the symptoms rather than the dis ease....Posted by frances on from bc 04/26 at 10:54 AM“dis ease...” care to explain, frances? What’s your point here?
Posted by dw on from Cincinnati, Ohio 04/26 at 11:05 AMThanks Frances...yes...those in power...and how many people are there willing to defend, ‘those people in power’...that makes things scarier yet!
There’s a man in town, some kind of private detective, plain clothes person who carries a gun...I have observed him very closely a number of times...there is no way in hell this man should be allowed to carry anything more dangerous than an ice cream cone! so the people who feel closely to ‘their’ god, ‘their’ president would blow others away so they could justify their essence, this shallow image of themselves...what do you think…Posted by joe of maine on from 04/26 at 11:05 AMRe: Walter Pincus: it’s amazing to me that anyone takes this guy seriously. He was the original CIA plant in the American press and has been otherwise whoring for power for decades.
Despite the overall weakness of the Moyers show (with a laugh track, it could have been comedy), I did enjoy him schooling that punk Beinart from The New Republic.
Posted by Zen Prole on from Urth 04/26 at 12:37 PMCracker Bush dancing with his niggaz:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vplf4kziQcPosted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 04/26 at 12:57 PMNo apologies for Pincus from me, Zen Prole. But the appearance was more as if he was in the shrink chair than it was he defending himself or any other - kind of creepy-sad for an “old pro” actually. RE Beinhart, yes I agree. David Sirota publicly punks him and Tim Russert today in an article pretty well too. They all have an attitude like Dennis Miller, it doesn’t matter if they consider themselves liberal or not. Did you see the part about Oprah? It’s god damn pathetic.
Posted by dw on from Cincinnati 04/26 at 01:03 PMdw: re#13 sickness, trouble, that which impairs proper function. 500 plus years of slavery, military aggression, corporate rule, and enviromental devastation is the disease. Sexism and racism are the symptoms.
I am way over simplifing it but thats as good as I can say it for now.Posted by frances on from bc 04/26 at 02:27 PMIt’s an insidious myth that the media ever served a watchdog role. Here’s but one example:
A July 28, 1915 New York Times editorial justified the U.S. innasion of Haiti as such: “It was almost hopeless to expect an orderly government to be established without [US military intervention] on the part of the United States.”
The mainstream/corporate media have always been the propaganda wing of the ruling elites.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 04/26 at 02:41 PMFrances-19 I think you said it well enough...now we must look in to the unknown...to transcend all this crap...memories bring us back to the crap...we must make the unknown, the future, the new paradigm, the new way of relating, we must turn those question marks into exclamation points...or else...we’re just simply getting pissed off and standing still while being pissed off...we could be developing real communities that are at somewhat breakaways, as much as possible from the mainstream...and boy, I’m not referring to the so called failed communes of the 60’s...they failed because they took their crap with them...no room for crap, only open minds liberated from memories/brainwashing...so that’s what we must due or...the system has us by the balls...and we’re playing right into them !
Posted by joe of maine on from 04/26 at 02:47 PMhello all.
just to say i have a new one up alongside some of mickeys new ones too. if you want a taster…
“Partying is absolution he said, it is the end rather than the means. A party is all it takes. A corporate-sponsored cocaine- fuelled celebrity wankfest will change the world. You can even buy McDonalds on your way there. We can bring Bill Gates on and introduce him as the greatest philanthropist in the world. You don’t even have to give any money this time. Just wear white, hell, you can even buy your new white t-shirt at the gap. It will help to give some people jobs. Madonna will ask us if we are ready for a revolution.”
http://www.selvesandothers.com/
Posted by michael on from scotland 04/26 at 04:07 PMResponding to Mickey Z. #20 – again, I make no apologies for the mainstream/corporate media. There’s much evidence and contemporary consensus from the works of people like Smedley Butler, Charles Beard and Upton Sinclair to prove this. To this earlier point: “Isn’t it possible to go back to when it all began, relatively speaking, so more folks can see the big picture of the last two decades? “ The point, as I see it, isn’t HOW the masses see through the propoganda, it’s if they get to any of it at all. And a television program like last night can do a whole lot in a very short time. It can make a big difference even if only a few people get it right once in awhile in the mainstream. There’s already been a single television program, consisting of an extended period of time, which provactively chronicles the ugly truth of politics. Why not fight like hell to keep peeling the onion? And it’s all on tape! captcha sez: “free”
Posted by dw on from Cincinnati 04/26 at 04:34 PMGood stuff Michael.
One thing I remember from the Live8 gig was an especially nauseating clip on Bob’s Big Screens of the munificent potentates laughing and congratulating themselves - and wondering how awesome it would be for Floyd to have played a suitably updated Fletcher Memorial Home at that precise moment. Utterly foolish of me I know.Mickey, saw Bush’s latest bizarro performance in this morning’s Metro. It was funny the rest of the journey - you could spot when someone got to that page by their pained expression!
Posted by mew on from LONDON BOROUGH OF LAMBETH 04/26 at 04:45 PMToo bad about that Moyers show disappointing, but at least there’s some reliable reporting still left:
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/middle_east_conflict_intensifies
Oh man… it’s bad out there.
Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 04/26 at 06:36 PM“Cracker Bush dancing with his niggaz”....lol..Mickey, that was awesome.
I watched Bill Moyers on DN yesterday. Now that I’ve heard what he said in that interview, I don’t think I want to watch his documentary on how “main stream” US “media” “failed” during the build up to the Iraq war.
Cheers.
Posted by Ehtesham on from Canada 04/26 at 06:55 PMYou hit the nail on the head MZ.
Posted by Keir on from the hague 04/26 at 07:42 PMDid I miss something, Keir? Was this hitting the nail on the head in regards to #20?
Posted by dw on from Cincinnati 04/26 at 09:12 PMMickey Z., you’re published writer in many places. You don’t seem too interested in weighing in on this matter. Why come my nigga?
Posted by dw on from Cincinnati, Ohio 04/27 at 12:38 PM
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