So the TV for our new studio came in, and of course we plugged it in and turned on CNN. That’s about when the train started heading south. Has anyone else noticed that these people are more or less just making it up as they go along? Like really.
Within the first 5 minutes, they have some over-emoting, big-eyed pony-tailed douchebag on to talk about the genocide n Darfur. And we’ve got Ms. Overemotional McHandwringer throwing him the following softball: “well, why isn’t anyone doing anything about this”. We were kind of half-listening, but we just figured that he would say something like “well, it’s kind of complicated. On one hand, China sells arms to the janjaweed and so doesn’t want the UN to clamp down, while on the other hand the Bush Administration’s maneuvering room for going it alone has been damaged by Iraq. Everyone’s to blame for this mess.” And the reason we expected him to say that is because it’s, you know, true.
Except that’s not what he says. Nope. Instead he chooses to say something that’s not that.
He says: the Bush administration isn’t intervening in the Sudanese genocide because it has deep connections to the Sudanese government. And how could the Bush administration possibly have ties to the Sudanese government, especially since the Administration labeled it a government complicit in genocide? Oh, no reason… just the War on Terror! Yeah, that was the claim – the Bush administration is super-cozy with the Sudanese government (hint: no they’re not) because of the War on Terror. Wouldn’t you know it, it’s the War on Terror’s fault that the Bush administration isn’t stopping Arab militias from massacring non-Muslim African animists in Africa. That’s obviously what it is. The genocide would be solved if only we could all get together and pretend that today is Sept 10, 2001 and that it’s really sunny outside.
And of course this woman doing the interview, whoever she was, nods credulously and tsks her tongue at imaginary evil Republicans. And all this happened an hour before Lou Dobbs even went on the air – at which point we had to listen to how the government hasn’t fixed everything in the country yet. Isn’t Lou Dobbs supposed to be a fiscal conservative? What the hell is he doing complaining that the government isn’t doing enough? Fiscal conservatives like gridlock, remember? It’s when people in Congress actually get the gumption to do something that things start going horribly awry.
