Watching the CBS 13 news on Thursday night, I almost came to the conclusion that there was, at last, peace on earth. All evil was gone, nothing bad was happening anywhere, because the first two news items were not about the ever-worsening situation in Iraq, nor about murder on the streets of Sacramento. It was about the death of Anna Nicole Smith, and then went straight into the weather. This was the most important thing we needed to know, according to CBS, so that's what we were shown. "And this is a shot of her body being brought out," one anxious and -surely not - grief-stricken news reporter announced gravely, "covered in the same red material that was used to cover her son's body recently, what that signifies we don't yet know but we'll keep you updated here on CBS-13 News..." Thanks, yes I know that'll keep me up wondering about that. While I was trying my best to suppress all possible sick and inappropriate jokes about y-shaped coffins and wondering if she'll be buried, cremated, or melted down and recycled, the weather report started. Yes the rains have come back to the Valley, but in the mountains, after a terribly dry winter, the snow is back. The first shot was of a man walking through a blizzard, with flakes of white snow swirling around, and I immediately thought that this was still part of the Anna Nicole Smith story: a report from the scene inside her hotel room with the fans turned on. Apparently not. And the snow-bound reporter, much to the mirth of the studio-bound CBS-13 laughing-boys (like Dave Bender, lord of the Vipir), had forgotten the hood on his jacket, and his ears were cold. Oh, ho ho ho. You see, there is nothing serious happening in the world. Oh anyone's death is serious of course, even dubious false icons like ANS, but more serious than those hundreds of people in Iraq who are blown up by car-bombs in market-places? Meanwhile in the world, further reports that the Pentagon deliberately exaggerated and doctored intelligence of Saddam's capability and alleged relations with Al Qaida before the decision to invade Iraq and begin this dreadful and endless and unwinnable conflict are brought to light, casting an even darker shadow across the doings of king george's Administration. But nothing will be done about it. There will be no enormous public outcry on this matter. There will be no mass popular demand for an immediate investigation and maybe an impeachment (such as there was when Mr Clinton occupied the Oval Orifice, ahem). Because the news media wants us to believe that the death of Anna Nicole Smith is much more important than the lies of a government causing the deaths of thousands of American soldiers and countless thousands of Iraqi citizens. Support the troops, eh.
a pair of tits running the country
10.2.07 17:12
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