link Islamist rebel urges total war with Russia.
Not that pleas for a united front against the enemies of Islam are new, but refreshingly this time, it’s not against the Great Satan but against Russia. I’m not sure how Russia stands in the Satan pecking order but since Great has been taken, the logical position is Pretty Big Satan, or Next Biggest Satan. This may stir the competitive sensibilities of the Russians who do not like to be inferior to anyone.
A new twist in this plea for a united war is that they are calling for women to join the fight as well. This can be regarded as progressive for that movement because in the past, women have never been considered as anything other than chattel. Now they are at least being addressed as people. I’m not sure how tempting the invitation is however, given that if they eventually win and an Islamist regime ensues, women will have the privelege of being subjugated and treated as less than human as a reward. Hmm. Wonder if option B is better?
This offer is no less preposterous than the situation that exists in the U.S. When you think of the platform of the progressive movement, their model is just as ludicrous. If you vote for them, they will spread the wealth and make sure that rules and regulations are in place that won’t allow any wealth creation. The implication is that corporations and wealthy people will be taxed so that the ‘average’ person can have a good wage, whatever that is. Those with some basic grasp of economics may figure out that if no one is rewarded for taking a chance on business, then no one will start one. All of a sudden, the only employers are the various tentacles of government, which of course are the people themselves. In essence, people will be taxed at ever higher rates in order to pay… themselves.
Oddly, in the case of the Islamists, some women will heed the call for the struggle. Even more sadly, as has been proven over and over again, voters here are happy to be bought with their own money. For example, as rabid a guy as Michael Moore is, he can still claim people who sympathize with his worldviews. It shows that you don’t have to create elaborate stories to fool the people. You only need tell part of the truth to a gullible audience.
link CNN’s Piers Morgan Vows Format And Other Changes To Beat Fox News Competition: Promises “I’m Going To Be There To Win” And “It’s Time To Kick Some Ratings Butt” – Deadline.com.
A big As if on this story. It’s possible that skewed entertainment may find an audience somewhere, but unless there’s hard objective news, our hero Piers Morgan will be voted off after season one. Actually, it’s an ongoing curiosity that the competing channels to Fox News offer the kind of programming that they do. The U.S. is a conservative nation, yet the public networks are populated with liberal mouthpieces, some of whom are borderline insane. Anyone with a rational bone in their body can see that a guy like Keith Olbermann is just an outburst away from a fitting with the long armed jacket.
It’s a miracle that Larry King still managed to hold onto his show for as long as he did. I can only suspect that the fossils who cared to watch him had actually died and left their TV’s on during his show, leading the Nielson people to mistakenly count them as actual live viewers.
The record so far for CNN is not good. Over the past year, they’ve offered shows that were intellectually dishonest, like the recently axed Rick Sanchez and the equally flaccid Christiane Amanpour, to the intellectually vapid, like the Joy Behar show. This is what they consider to be tapping into America’s interests and sensibilities. Americans are quite different from Europeans and even from Canadians. They do not like to be told what to think. Virtually every network and cable outlet except for Fox has been pushing the same tired propoganda over the past few years. Obama is a genius, Palin is dumb. Democrats are sympathetic, Republicans are wing nuts. People can pretty much figure it out for themselves and if they determine that the truth is quite the contrary, all credibility is gone.
Consider this. Bill O’Reilly and Glenn Beck, two of Fox’s star opinion purveyors actually have a tour in which they go around the country…just talking. These are two pudgy, grumpy middle aged guys. And the shows sell out. The message they convey is so compelling that people would pay to see them. I cannot imagine any personality from any of the other networks who have that kind of drawing power. There’s an epiphany here for the CNN’s, the CBS’s, the NBC”s and the ABC’s of America, people want to hear honest, positive things, not “progressive” agendas. At the moment, Fox is the only source for objective news. The rest may as well be part of The Colbert Report.