The Savage Carnival

[finecraft]

http://www.hoffmania.com/blog/2005/03/guest_blogger_j.html#more

(snip): "America has become a savage carnival of freak show religiosity and circus clown politics.

Let’s call them what they are: Ghoulish Obscene Panderers. How else to describe Tom Delay, and Bill Frist et al. as they crawl into bed with a brain-dead woman to pose for a political Polaroid?

If Bill Frist is the paragon of compassionate-conservative medicine in this country, it is no wonder the GOP wants to do away with trial lawyers and medical malpractice awards. I mean, if Dr. Frist can diagnose via video, surely we can all be diagnosed and healed by touching the magic screens of our televisions powered by the celebrated and all knowing all-powerful Dr. Oz and his media-evangelists, cured through Our Lady of the Sacred Cable Cathedral and the Holy Order of St. Arbitron; all included in our monthly satellite and cable subscription fees. Better than national healthcare. God is good.

And while the circus of life unfolds before us, notice how no one acknowledges the rampage of giant pink elephants. The media, like a good Ring Master, barks and waves, diverting our attention to the death defying trapeze artists, the bearded lady, the two-headed boy, and the miniature fire engine loaded with seltzer spraying pundits fresh from clown college. Modern journalism under the Big Top."
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John Cory is so right. Every time I turned on the television this weekend it was the savage carnival...brought to you by corporate media and the religious freak show of delusional psychotics in Florida. I'm glad tomorrow is Monday.