Here is one of the problems

Here is one of the problems about the news today and said in his own inimitable way:
http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/?ml_video=81284
However, it is clear that the problem goes beyond the news business and their ways of tearing down the system of reliable reporting. While Colbert is funny and witty in this spoof of what makes the new news today, he is not wise. Wise would have been to talk about the way the news is not any longer about giving us information we need to make our own minds up but about programming us to think in certain ways. That is what made me so angry last night while watching the president give his awful speech and the poor governor of Kansas have to rebut that with her cliche rich but meaningless set of ideas.
Would that I could have watched Law and Order simultaneous with the president's address. At least loads of my inner violence could have been sublimated into finding the perp and getting him arrested and prosecuted and sent to his just reward.
No, I had to watch the president stand up there smirking away, though the tv crews must have been alerted to be on smirk patrol and hold back showing too many of them, all the while piling up a long list of further lies and innuendoes that had so little resemblance to the truth that his twin daughters appeared there together for the first time to prove to themselve, I think, that they would be right to reject this family. (This is a bit of wishful thinking.) Thinking wishfully though, what a lot of drugs and/or liquor had to have been consumed last night before that performance. Would that we could have a check of the DC water system this morning to see what its alcohol and drug levels are at. Ted Kennedy looked like his forehead was going to explode as the Bush went on about No Child Left Behind. Poor guy and now we trust him to annoint for us another one to go on to do the peoples' business when he didn't have a clue about the president and his trickery. Yikes.
But my most pointed barb is for that governor of Kansas. I hope all of you were in as much pain from listening to her as I was. This woman needs a new speechwriter. She needs someone who lives with blood running in their veins and with some sense of the historical moment in which we are living.
To call Hillary cold and this woman alive is a point worth pondering. I think perhaps she was being tested by the FDA as the next best sleeping potion. Guaranteed to make you want to just check out but permanently. That may be her drawback. Here is a party, the Democratic Party, that wants to inspire more to its ranks and they put up as its rebutter the butt of probably lots of bad but just jokes. I think all of us could have written that speech at some point in our lives and then thrown it away because we would have known just how horrible it was.
Then I think of Dennis Kucinich fighting to be back in the House of Representatives now and I am so upset and scared. I am so sad to see that the world is as evil and nasty as it is. These masters of the universe just don't want to have lots of money in their pockets, they want to have all the money in their pockets. Dennis sees this. They know he knows what they are up to and they want to shut him down.
I am frightened because this country could do something so many good things if we had a leader who understood what the world was truly about and what was needed to make it right. We need someone who has more than a winning smile and who looks good in a suit. Please help Dennis now and contribute to his Congressional race and keep one sane voice there to make this system be what it is supposed to be.
Together we can do this.
Strength through Peace.