*Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
And a great (for me) quote from Lee Camp:
AlterNet: Blogs: Lee Camp: Why I Called Fox News "Propaganda" While Live on Fox News
I realize I'm a comedian, and I realize my job is not to tell the truth. But in a situation like this, I feel it's a crime not to. Plus, all the best comedians have spoken the truth - Bruce, Carlin, Pryor, Hicks.
Bruce, Carlin, Pryor, Hicks. Yeah!
What I found interesting in the Montel Williams section is the conversation between Montel and the woman (don't know who she is):
(I think the woman goes "Mmm hmmm" [affermative])
...who's somebody's father, has not even been buried yet
(one of the men says "It's true")
...and I think it's gone way too far--
Woman: But why do we do that as a society, I mean look at--
Montel: It's our voracious appetite to bring home ratings. That's what it is, we know it, we know it as a fact, let's be honest about it.
Woman (my emphasis): Of course it's ratings, but it's the appetite, we're feeding the beast--
Montel: Cart before the horse, horse before the cart, I don't know who drives it, I think if right now, if we woke up this morning, and instead of talking about Keith-- Heath Ledger we talked about the troop who died last night by the IED--
Man (my emphasis): Montel, Montel, we have numbers and look, I...er...er...it's kind of a sad reality, though, I mean, troops have been dying in Iraq since March of 2003, correct?
Montel: I wanna talk about 'em.
Woman: Well I--
Man: We talk about the war plenty, I mean I was in Iraq, I was actually embedded, I was there for the invasion--
Montel: I gotcha
Man: I mean, we...I think everybody in this country knows we're at war.
Montel: Nobody in this country knows who died yesterday. And if I know about Heath, I want to know about the troop.--That's it.
Lee Camp says:
Which I find positive, it means the brain drain in Fox World is large (this may be my fantasy), and intelligent people (who have access to such things as...the internet!) are speeding up, moving beyond...I like this idea of appearing, smiling the smile, then making the point and off--no re-appearance after the ads.
I think people (including me) have a tendency to believe what they hear: the assumption is that people wouldn't lie to our faces, and they don't, they bend and twist what has already been bent and twisted by those who did tell a lie--but bending and twisting is better than the straight lie such that all the way back it's bending and twisting--but then these brief breaks are like the glitch in the Matrix:
heh...
But then the paranoia strikes--yet seeing intelligent balanced people state the nature of the game during the game--and getting wholehearted agreement from one of the other players!--
And there's this part of the article:
I then left the building without speaking to anyone. Following the break, intrepid newshound Clayton Morris pretended on-air as if he had thrown me out of the building. Here's the clip: He says something like, "I had to get rid of that guy!" The other anchor then says something like, "Well, it shows we have both sides of the issues here at Fox News." They then go on to interview the naked Star Trek chicks. So first of all, Fox "News" shows that it feels the solution to someone speaking their opinion is violence, but then they say it shows they have all viewpoints on their network. Within three seconds they stated that they accept all viewpoints and that they physically throw opposing viewpoints of the building. I'm impressed they're able to walk when they're that deeply drenched in hypocrisy.
I guess that the fox news workers have bills to pay and play the game as everyone plays the game where not playing means not working (= all jobs); so for me it was interesting that the woman wholeheartedly agreed with Montel, a spontaneous gesture between two people "in" the system, except that Montel no longer seems to be "in"-- Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
Lenny Bruce:
George Carlin:
Richard Pryor:
Bill Hicks: (might have to wait a couple of seconds)
Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
