Two Down . . .

It is no secret that our system for receiving news is utterly broken. The systemic and institutional horrors that plague the industry are immense, to the point where I tend to believe the entire industry is completely fucked and in dire need of purging fire. When the problems are so vast, it is easy to forget that specific individuals are responsible for this, and they need to be singled out and ridiculed as often and as publicly as possible. Not that this forum is public in any sense other than it can be accessed by the public, usually accidentally . . . How can anyone with a brain stomach the "full OJ treatment" these bastards gave the Spitzer motor pool yesterday? But there has been some promising . . . developments on the cable news front.

John Gibson and Tucker Carlson are, truly, two of the most disgusting people on the planet. Gibson is a actual, honest-to-God, overt racist. I realize that on FOX that ain't exactly unusual, but Gibson's on air comments have been particularly disturbing. Also actually wrote an entire book on "The War On Christmas." What is it with right-wingers and Christmas? Can't we just celebrate at home and keep it the fuck out of everything else? Jesus Christ. Tucker . . . well Tucker is just a rich kid who has never done anything to earn his megaphone. He tours dilapidated cesspools in the third world for a day or two then lectures the people on how righteous he is for "being on the front lines." He invites liberals on his show to badger and cajole, but once in awhile picks some random issue out of the blue to disagree with the Republicans on to prove he is an "independent thinker." Pretty transparent - it's not as if he has some logical political philosophy of his own to address these issues, he simply diverges with the orthodoxy once in awhile to raise eyebrows. The cancellation of these two men's television programs is a nice bit of Krishnic cosmic justice for the day. I realize I may be a horrible human being for saying this, but I take pleasure in their humiliation.

Yeah, yeah, they will immediately be replaced by something or someone just as bad, I realize that. However, I can dream that this is the first salvo in a multi-pronged offensive to overhaul cable news. Hey, what's wrong? You don't have to laugh so loudly! I already see it - 6 months from now: Tucker in rehab after six months spent trying to forget who he is partying with Bubba the Love Sponge, and John Gibson joining with Lou Dobbs to start Propagandaministerium, a 24-hour news network dedicated to rooting out Mexicans wherever they live and breathe.

Posting Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds today . . . Stagger Lee from Murder Ballads. Just cause I hope Gibson or Carlson might run into Stagger Lee one day . . .

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Stagger Lee