Friday, September 25, 2009
Credibility...Gone!
Many folks...okay two, two folks...have come to me and said, "hey, do you like Obama or hate Obama? What is it? Your posts don't make any sense." Okay, they didn't say that last part...but they are confused nonetheless...and NO, I do not either "like"...nor do I hate President Obama. Yes, I voted for him, but that was mostly because I didn't want eight more years of a Clinton or a Bush. Am I afraid of his agenda? Sure, parts...just like I was afraid of parts of Clinton's...or Bush's agenda...I am only here to challenge the media...not take sides...
Another reader told me he thought that I might be leaning toward just becoming another Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh or, egad, Glen Beck (see a theme there?) out there in right wing blogosphere. I answer "hogwash," to that offering. Granted, I DID previously pen that there was no one "relevant" who was hoping that Obama failed...and I still believe that to be true. Yes, there are many hoping he will fail, but I think (and hope) they are just part of the right wing fringe...just as I had previously hoped the Bush detractors were "mostly" from the left wing fringe...I want us ALL to support our president!
But, what's this I hear about Fox news playing a "key role" in the production of those infamous (now) videos of ACORN staffers offering "illegal" help to a couple of conservative wanna-be thespians? Does ANYONE out there think those two were ACTUALLY pimp and whore...I didn't think so. First, the fair and balanced network "holds those tea parties" all over the nation with their "reporters,"...you know, Beck, Hannity, Neil Cavuto, etc. (again, see a theme there?). Now, they (Fox) are complicit in "manufactured" news...just like others whom they've criticized?
I would no more give a pass to MSNBC...or even CNN...if they pulled a stunt like that. WE GET IT, FOX! You don't like past inequities in network and cable news coverage...so you want to provide, what, equal time, right? However, you are doing EXACTLY what you complain about!! Pointing out hypocrisy (bad behavior)...by being hypocritical yourselves (more bad behavior). DON'T YOU GET IT!! I guess not...We report, You decide? Crap! Fair and Balanced? Crap! Credibility? Gone!
Another reader told me he thought that I might be leaning toward just becoming another Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh or, egad, Glen Beck (see a theme there?) out there in right wing blogosphere. I answer "hogwash," to that offering. Granted, I DID previously pen that there was no one "relevant" who was hoping that Obama failed...and I still believe that to be true. Yes, there are many hoping he will fail, but I think (and hope) they are just part of the right wing fringe...just as I had previously hoped the Bush detractors were "mostly" from the left wing fringe...I want us ALL to support our president!
But, what's this I hear about Fox news playing a "key role" in the production of those infamous (now) videos of ACORN staffers offering "illegal" help to a couple of conservative wanna-be thespians? Does ANYONE out there think those two were ACTUALLY pimp and whore...I didn't think so. First, the fair and balanced network "holds those tea parties" all over the nation with their "reporters,"...you know, Beck, Hannity, Neil Cavuto, etc. (again, see a theme there?). Now, they (Fox) are complicit in "manufactured" news...just like others whom they've criticized?
I would no more give a pass to MSNBC...or even CNN...if they pulled a stunt like that. WE GET IT, FOX! You don't like past inequities in network and cable news coverage...so you want to provide, what, equal time, right? However, you are doing EXACTLY what you complain about!! Pointing out hypocrisy (bad behavior)...by being hypocritical yourselves (more bad behavior). DON'T YOU GET IT!! I guess not...We report, You decide? Crap! Fair and Balanced? Crap! Credibility? Gone!
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
This is it!!!
Oh man...sorry...that sounds like a Kenny Loggins song, right? How 'bout "There! Right there!!" ...which would be reminiscent of Howard Cosell from his heyday on Monday Night Football back in the 70's...or "it's in the hole," that utterance from the Bill Murray groundskeeper role in the movie, "Caddyshack." I guess it could be worse...I could have said, "that's what she said," courtesy of Michael Scott (played by Steve Carell) from "The Office" television series. WHAT THE HELL AM I TALKING ABOUT?
The headline from the AP this morning, "Obama to world: Don't expect America to fix it all." I LOVE IT!! Can you imagine if Bush had "inferred" something like that? Well, okay...he did...he was a dummy, we all know that...but, man, the media would've had a cow. "Ooh, there he goes again, alienating the world...we had the entire world's support on September 12, 2001...and Bush gave it all away." First of all...NO WE DIDN'T!! We had the world's pity...but we were far, FAR from ever having "support," or respect. But that's another story...AGAIN, I digress...
What I LOVE is THIS...THIS RIGHT HERE...is where voting for Obama is a good thing. Put aside (for now) what you think about (incremental) socialized medicine...or nationalizing the banking industry...or bailing out corporations "TOO BIG" (as deemed by whom?) to fail. Just put that aside for a tad...this is where Obama's intellect and "gift of glib" can benefit us greatly. Do you think "the world" would sit by and let a Republican (or ANY old school politician...hell, even Ross Perot) "talk" like this...NO WAY JOSE, IVAN, ACHBAR, GUIDO...well, you get the idea...
This just in...dateline Sep 22, 2009...UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon convened a high level summit on Climate Change ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Convention (COP 15) in Copenhagen this December. According to the Secretary General, "failure to reach broad agreement in Copenhagen would be morally inexcusable, economically short-sighted and politically unwise." Good stuff? You bet! Who doesn't want to "save" the planet?
But of course, the UN wants America to "take the lead" by, yes "reducing emissions," etc. with a baseline of 1990 rather than a more current date , such as 2005 (so as to negate ALL the technological advances this great country has made during the 90's and beyond)...of course, Obama himself pegged the 1990 date during his campaign for the presidency (can you imagine if Bush had a 15 year memory lapse...the media would go nuts). Regardless, the UN's expectations are well above what any person, rational or otherwise, would consider a "fair share,"...
Well, unless of course, that person was George W. Bush. BUT NOW, with Obama in charge...the UN will NOT be able to push us around...Bush could never tell the UN that we won't "do" the rest of the world's share (in addition to our own)...BUT Obama can...yes (h)e can...and I say, "BRAVO!!" C'mon, it could be worse...hey, I could have ended this column with the 'Top Gun' theme...HELLO...a Kenny Loggins reference...that's funny, right there...oh well, toodles...
The headline from the AP this morning, "Obama to world: Don't expect America to fix it all." I LOVE IT!! Can you imagine if Bush had "inferred" something like that? Well, okay...he did...he was a dummy, we all know that...but, man, the media would've had a cow. "Ooh, there he goes again, alienating the world...we had the entire world's support on September 12, 2001...and Bush gave it all away." First of all...NO WE DIDN'T!! We had the world's pity...but we were far, FAR from ever having "support," or respect. But that's another story...AGAIN, I digress...
What I LOVE is THIS...THIS RIGHT HERE...is where voting for Obama is a good thing. Put aside (for now) what you think about (incremental) socialized medicine...or nationalizing the banking industry...or bailing out corporations "TOO BIG" (as deemed by whom?) to fail. Just put that aside for a tad...this is where Obama's intellect and "gift of glib" can benefit us greatly. Do you think "the world" would sit by and let a Republican (or ANY old school politician...hell, even Ross Perot) "talk" like this...NO WAY JOSE, IVAN, ACHBAR, GUIDO...well, you get the idea...
This just in...dateline Sep 22, 2009...UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon convened a high level summit on Climate Change ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Convention (COP 15) in Copenhagen this December. According to the Secretary General, "failure to reach broad agreement in Copenhagen would be morally inexcusable, economically short-sighted and politically unwise." Good stuff? You bet! Who doesn't want to "save" the planet?
But of course, the UN wants America to "take the lead" by, yes "reducing emissions," etc. with a baseline of 1990 rather than a more current date , such as 2005 (so as to negate ALL the technological advances this great country has made during the 90's and beyond)...of course, Obama himself pegged the 1990 date during his campaign for the presidency (can you imagine if Bush had a 15 year memory lapse...the media would go nuts). Regardless, the UN's expectations are well above what any person, rational or otherwise, would consider a "fair share,"...
Well, unless of course, that person was George W. Bush. BUT NOW, with Obama in charge...the UN will NOT be able to push us around...Bush could never tell the UN that we won't "do" the rest of the world's share (in addition to our own)...BUT Obama can...yes (h)e can...and I say, "BRAVO!!" C'mon, it could be worse...hey, I could have ended this column with the 'Top Gun' theme...HELLO...a Kenny Loggins reference...that's funny, right there...oh well, toodles...
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Racism IS issue #1
Agh! Joe Wilson, Kanye West, Michael Jordan, agh! Uncle! Uncle! Okay, you got me...we ARE a racist nation (actually, I've always believed it though I thought modern racism was just simple human nature, i.e. fear of the unknown, of other cultures, etc.)...I have always tried to look for the best in the majority of people...and give most folks the benefit of the doubt (let's not get into "institutional" racism here)...but now thanks to Maureen Dowd, a writer (and I use the term loosely) for the New York Times AND the epitome of the word "hater"), I now know better.
Her column this morning (I'm sure you can find it) was nothing less than a diatribe against ALL THINGS that disagree with her idea of social engineering. She tosses around labels like they're going out of style...foreigner, socialist, Marxist, racist, Commie, Nazi, even "liar," etc....only she maintains her side does NONE of the name calling. It is all the "other" side. She gets away with it...because of idiots like Wilson, former failed Senator Trent Lott, Dick Cheney, et al. DON'T YOU GUYS GET IT? Race is an issue when THEY want it to be an issue; NOT when YOU want it to be an issue. Unfair, you say?
Too bad. Get over it. I'll once again, go back to my tried and true mantra, IMPROVISE, ADAPT, and OVERCOME. If YOUR way is the best way, it will e-ventually come to fruition. Right now, it's the Dems turn. You HAD eight whole years (well, less when you consider that you almost immediately frittered away your majority in Congress)...and you BLEW it!! IF, as you say, the Obama way will fail...HEY, here's a clue...LET HIM HAVE HIS WAY. You can't stop it anyway. The Dems control everything...it IS their turn. Even if you make a good case, haters like Dowd will ALWAYS re-frame the debate.
HOWEVER, just as Obama and the Democrats, I believe, don't really want to fix health care (it IS all about power)...or the economy...or any other "issue," hey, NEITHER DO YOU!! Psst...have a clue...if it DOES work, we all prosper, we all win, we share the gain...and on the other hand, if it doesn't work, you will have even MORE power...isn't that a WIN-WIN? Geez, get a clue...you RACISTS!!
Her column this morning (I'm sure you can find it) was nothing less than a diatribe against ALL THINGS that disagree with her idea of social engineering. She tosses around labels like they're going out of style...foreigner, socialist, Marxist, racist, Commie, Nazi, even "liar," etc....only she maintains her side does NONE of the name calling. It is all the "other" side. She gets away with it...because of idiots like Wilson, former failed Senator Trent Lott, Dick Cheney, et al. DON'T YOU GUYS GET IT? Race is an issue when THEY want it to be an issue; NOT when YOU want it to be an issue. Unfair, you say?
Too bad. Get over it. I'll once again, go back to my tried and true mantra, IMPROVISE, ADAPT, and OVERCOME. If YOUR way is the best way, it will e-ventually come to fruition. Right now, it's the Dems turn. You HAD eight whole years (well, less when you consider that you almost immediately frittered away your majority in Congress)...and you BLEW it!! IF, as you say, the Obama way will fail...HEY, here's a clue...LET HIM HAVE HIS WAY. You can't stop it anyway. The Dems control everything...it IS their turn. Even if you make a good case, haters like Dowd will ALWAYS re-frame the debate.
HOWEVER, just as Obama and the Democrats, I believe, don't really want to fix health care (it IS all about power)...or the economy...or any other "issue," hey, NEITHER DO YOU!! Psst...have a clue...if it DOES work, we all prosper, we all win, we share the gain...and on the other hand, if it doesn't work, you will have even MORE power...isn't that a WIN-WIN? Geez, get a clue...you RACISTS!!
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Bold and Specific?
Dear President Obama,
I've heard the health care reform speech you are giving this evening to a joint session of Congress is supposed to be "bold and specific." I sure hope so. Considering what I've read thus far, however, I fear it will disappoint (the media will love it though). But, I am still on your side Mr. President. I am different from any other (of your) advisers, though, in that I truly believe this is a simple, SIMPLE endeavor.
First, Americans are simple. Yes, we are simple. However, even simple people don't like being told we are simple...or stupid...or dishonest. We don't mind paying our own way, even more (the majority of us); we simply want it fair. Hauling out victim after (anecdotal) victim of the current system to tug at our heart strings will continue to be a waste of time. Calling health insurance companies dishonest...or people who simply disagree with you as being manipulated...is similarly a waste of time.
Here is ALL YOU NEED TO DO:
1. Be honest...people won't mind paying more, if it's FAIR...
2. Call it what it is...single payer? Yes, that works...IF EVERYBODY IS THE SAME...
3. Joe Six Pack, Joe Skid Row, even Joe Blow, go to the SAME Doctor as Joe Biden...
4. Two lines--one for RESPONSIBLE FOLK, one for IRRESPONSIBLE FOLK...
5. The above bifurcated program will have very clear, concise, simple criteria...
6. It's simple...just like school (everyone goes); want more? "Private school!"
7. Don't want public, go private...BUT you still pay (just like school)...
8. Remember...we voted for YOU to lead...not allow Pelosi and Reid to lead...
For more specifics, go to http://www.mediacopp.blogspot. com
or http://www.facebook.com/mediacopp
Or e-mail me @ mediacopp@yahoo.com or call me @ (916) 712-1063
I look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Richard "Media" Copp
I've heard the health care reform speech you are giving this evening to a joint session of Congress is supposed to be "bold and specific." I sure hope so. Considering what I've read thus far, however, I fear it will disappoint (the media will love it though). But, I am still on your side Mr. President. I am different from any other (of your) advisers, though, in that I truly believe this is a simple, SIMPLE endeavor.
First, Americans are simple. Yes, we are simple. However, even simple people don't like being told we are simple...or stupid...or dishonest. We don't mind paying our own way, even more (the majority of us); we simply want it fair. Hauling out victim after (anecdotal) victim of the current system to tug at our heart strings will continue to be a waste of time. Calling health insurance companies dishonest...or people who simply disagree with you as being manipulated...is similarly a waste of time.
Here is ALL YOU NEED TO DO:
1. Be honest...people won't mind paying more, if it's FAIR...
2. Call it what it is...single payer? Yes, that works...IF EVERYBODY IS THE SAME...
3. Joe Six Pack, Joe Skid Row, even Joe Blow, go to the SAME Doctor as Joe Biden...
4. Two lines--one for RESPONSIBLE FOLK, one for IRRESPONSIBLE FOLK...
5. The above bifurcated program will have very clear, concise, simple criteria...
6. It's simple...just like school (everyone goes); want more? "Private school!"
7. Don't want public, go private...BUT you still pay (just like school)...
8. Remember...we voted for YOU to lead...not allow Pelosi and Reid to lead...
For more specifics, go to http://www.mediacopp.blogspot. com
or http://www.facebook.com/mediacopp
Or e-mail me @ mediacopp@yahoo.com or call me @ (916) 712-1063
I look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Richard "Media" Copp
Friday, September 4, 2009
Uh-oh...NOW you went and done it...
Well, this is it...I'm throwing my hat in the ring...entering the foray, as it were...jumping into the political mosh pit...
I hereby announce my intention to...wait for it...put my name into the mix for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Barbara Boxer here in the less than great (but soon to be greater than great) state of California.
Why? Especially when I appear to be "down on everything California?" Well, that's just it...California was once the best state in the nation...and it COULD BE AGAIN. However, changes need to be made...and I'm just the MediaCopp to do it...
But what about big party politics? And lawyers? And lobbyists? You (I) could never work with those people, right? Wrong, Obama breath...if our new team in Washington has proven anything, it has shown that the people yearn for change...and not just rhetoric...we ARE undergoing change...and I'm just the person to "keep the ball rolling locally."
Hey, wait a minute (you might say)...aren't you a registered Republican? Yes, I never got around to "officially" changing to "Independent." But that SHOULD matter not, right? I mean, if it's good enough for Arlen Specter. Heck, I'll register for both...
So that's it...Republican or Democrat...Independent or Libertarian...it doesn't matter to me...we need new blood...someone NOT beholden to big business...or big labor...or big media...or (even) big politics.
VOTE FOR MEDIACOPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hereby announce my intention to...wait for it...put my name into the mix for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Barbara Boxer here in the less than great (but soon to be greater than great) state of California.
Why? Especially when I appear to be "down on everything California?" Well, that's just it...California was once the best state in the nation...and it COULD BE AGAIN. However, changes need to be made...and I'm just the MediaCopp to do it...
But what about big party politics? And lawyers? And lobbyists? You (I) could never work with those people, right? Wrong, Obama breath...if our new team in Washington has proven anything, it has shown that the people yearn for change...and not just rhetoric...we ARE undergoing change...and I'm just the person to "keep the ball rolling locally."
Hey, wait a minute (you might say)...aren't you a registered Republican? Yes, I never got around to "officially" changing to "Independent." But that SHOULD matter not, right? I mean, if it's good enough for Arlen Specter. Heck, I'll register for both...
So that's it...Republican or Democrat...Independent or Libertarian...it doesn't matter to me...we need new blood...someone NOT beholden to big business...or big labor...or big media...or (even) big politics.
VOTE FOR MEDIACOPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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