Feelings about the conventions: to me both felt like one big awful infomercial-propaganda show brought to you by (insert corporate name here). Thankfully, our long national nightmare-mini-series of DNC and RNC is over, and the blow-hard pundits can return to their respective corporate media posts where everyone talks and no one listens.
Don't know if you listen to Amy Goodman of Democracy Now (the only real journalism left in this country except for Bill Moyers), but besides being arrested at the RNC (Amy, you're my hero), she did a behind-the-scenes report on who the corporate sponsors were and who had the fancy sky boxes and parties. Apparently AT&T was one of the largest sponsors at both conventions. Maybe they had a "Thanks for the Immunity" party for their part in spying on the American people illegally. Journalist Matt Cooper (formerly of Time) in his blog at portfolio.com even goes so far as to call it the Corporate Conventions and said so many corporations were represented at the DNC and RNC that you'd think you were at a Chamber of Commerce meeting.
Also: Captain Morgan's Rum mascot was there as the official "pourer" at both conventions. Captain Morgan, by the way, is putting the party back into politics. And if he doesn't, Larry Craig will.
As for Sara Palin (aka, Caribou Barbie), what a pathetic display of cynicism by McCain and his dark master, Karl Rove. Apparently Rove convinced McCain he must pander to the right wing of the Repubs (aka, the shiite Baptists) to get them to turn out for him in this election. So McCain abides by Satan Rove's desires and picks an anti-choice, anti-gay, gun-toting, Baby Jesus-loving Pentecostal. It's the right wing's same, old, tired agenda. I call it the 4 Gs: Guns, God, Gays and Gynecology.
Stay tuned. The party's just getting started.
1 comment:
They're just getting started alright.
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