The reason Americans are dumb is because our media needs to appeal to morons to sell stuff. So they dumb down everything. I saw a stupid 'little Elmo' story Sunday that was dumber than the doll. They showed the stupid thing rolling over at least eight times to illustrate the story of a man threatening to kill another equally dumb shopper. In aisle 5. Go see it now!
Muriel Kane - Raw Story research director
Published: Monday September 25, 2006The United States edition of the October 2, 2006 issue of Newsweek features a radically different cover story from its International counterparts, RAW STORY has learned.
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No shit, Sherlock. This is an ongoing problem. To sell these things in America, you need movie stars, dead child beauty queens, dead or living princesses primping themselves or bleeding all over the place or raging sports idols. Mindless entertainment on the level of ancient Roman Empire. This infantile, childish push to please mindless proles is part of the problem with America: we are insane, distracted, irresponsible and dumb.
Kind of sums up our silly satanic leader, Bush, too. Of course, no one is supposed to mention this at the UN! Shhhh.
Here is the lead story the rest of the world is reading.
By Ron Moreau, Sami Yousafzai and Michael Hirsh
Newsweek
Oct. 2, 2006 issue - You don't have to drive very far from Kabul these days to find the Taliban. In Ghazni province's Andar district, just over a two-hour trip from the capital on the main southern highway, a thin young man, dressed in brown and wearing a white prayer cap, stands by the roadside waiting for two NEWSWEEK correspondents. It is midday on the central Afghan plains, far from the jihadist-infested mountains to the east and west. Without speaking, the sentinel guides his visitors along a sandy horse trail toward a mud-brick village within sight of the highway. As they get closer a young Taliban fighter carrying a walkie-talkie and an AK-47 rifle pops out from behind a tree. He is manning an improvised explosive device, he explains, in case Afghan or U.S. troops try to enter the village.
Holy hangrenades! Whoa! You mean we aren't winning this war, hands down? This news is of vital interest to the USA. I recall, once upon a time, we went to Afghanistan to catch Mr. Terror himself, bin Laden, a friend of the Bush family and an employee of the CIA! I hope they have stopped paying him by now at least!
This important story is literally life and death for Americans so why is it being hidden? Just last month, Bush suddenly broke his four-year silence about this old buddy of his and actually talked about bin Laden and blustered about how we were going to catch him, in caves 'with portals open or portals closed.'
Now we have a report about how Bush fucked up the fight to nail bin Laden and the lad falls off the face of the earth, ceases to be in the news and what with Pakistan accusing us of wanting to nuke them and making peace themselves with the Taliban and with dozens of NATO troops dying each week as well as Americans, time to pretend there is no war on terror!
We must fight terror by kissing movie stars and going goo-goo-ga-ga over their infants.
By Cathleen McGuigan
Newsweek
Oct. 2, 2006 issue - Annie Leibovitz is tired and nursing a cold, and she' s just flown back to New York on the red-eye from Los Angeles, where she spent two days shooting Angelina Jolie for Vogue. Like so many of her photo sessions, there was nothing simple about it. "I talked with Angelina before the shoot," says Leibovitz, who's famous for her preparation. "She felt like she was coming back from having the baby and she felt very sexy and ready to go." Jolie, a pilot, suggested shooting on an old airfield near the desert, with motorcycles and small planes among the props. (She flew herself to the location and the next day, Brad Pitt buzzed up in his plane.)
Life is good. After the famous football star, 'what's-his-name' joined the military right after 9/11 in a fit of patriotism, the media stopped talking about celebrities fighting and got back to celebrities getting married, spending money and getting knocked up and divorced. The famous football star ceased to exist after our own troops blew him away. Now that his family is very unhappy about his fate, he has been eliminated from public discourse.
Anyway, we are supposed to go shopping, give Congress a green light to start an even more ruinous war with Iran and pay no more attention to the guys with turbans who are planning to destroy us by making us go bankrupt with half-assed battles directed by corrupt, venal, stupid pencil pushers in the Pentagon.
Sic transit gloria.
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