Politics and the Media.

I've signed on to the T. Boone Pickens' energy plan (http://www.pickensplan.com). Now that my name is on board, how could it fail? If you haven't checked it out, please do. Frankly it just makes sense. Also it was created by a man whose name leads me to believe he was conceived when his mother had a fuck-fest with Yosemite Sam, Foghorn Leghorn, and every blues guitarist from Stax records.

Two days after I signed on, Governor Richardson from New Mexico became a supporter. Richardson, who ran a very honorable campaign during this past primary, and whose campaign cornerstone was the idea of an apollo project for alternative energy, is a politician whom I've come to trust almost completely in both domestic and foreign policy. If he's on board, I know it's a good plan. For your convenience, I've included a video explaining it. Kind of me, right?



In more political news, God Bless Comedians. In 1974, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncovered crucial evidence in the Presidential scandal that would eventually come to be known as Watergate. Their evidence and investigation led to the downfall of Nixon, and is considered a shining example of the 4th estate. Thinking "That's probably enough for a century" the press has been on vacation ever since.

In the meantime the rights and duties have been transferred onto a snide, sniveling group of citizens called Comedians. In the last 8 years, their role in the government has shined, but as of late they have been curiously absent, leaving the press to ask our elected officials the hard hitting questions that reveal to us, the viewers, just what it is we need to know about the policies governing our country. Of course this hasn't happened. To be fair, Kanye was arrested at an airport, so the war, the economy, and our looming energy crisis really can wait just a little longer.

Fortunately the comedians have stepped it up lately. First was the Daily Show's stupendous coverage of the Republican and Democratic National Primaries. They are the first ones to take Sarah Palin to task, and all with a message that it's ok to question the credentials of the VP Candidate, even if she is a woman. That message is sadly lost on the press.

If you haven't seen it, their response to the Conservative Pundit's response to Palin, and their cries of Media Sexism--somehow ON the night she was nominated (That's some fast sexism!)--is flung back in their faces in such a way that reminds me of TDS back when Colbert and Carrell were writers:



Their hard hitting attack at the cries of sexism, should've paved an immediate path for the media to begin to question Palin on her issues, rather than be scared shitless of being called a sexist (something they were never afraid of when Clinton was running). Instead it took them almost 3 weeks, when Charlie Gibson took her to task. Seriously, what has the world come to when Charlie Gibson has become journalism's hardest hitting newsman?

But did the Daily Show stop there? Hells no! When everyone else was amazed a woman could be that tough, TDS actually questioned her words. (I don't care if this clip is decidedly biased. I'm a community organizer, so fuck the Republicans. You know I used to respect McCain? In my very liberal office, I would defend the idea of conservatism as vital to a healthy dialogue in the nation. You know what? I was wrong. Fuck McCain, Fuck the Republicans, and definitely fuck Palin. I hope every conservative hack job who would rather turn to their bible than actually use reason and logic, who would give up constitutional freedoms in order to strengthen the executive power under a President who was a C-student, and bankrupted his first 5 businesses, and who would support the placing of our citizens in harms way by invading a sovereign country, loses their job in the next election, and every idiotic voter who would support them sees their worst nightmares come true by having their taxes raise 90% to pay for socialized medicine. Fuck them and their little dog too....But I digress):



Finally, Tina Fey had a masterful performance satirizing Sarah "Lipstick" Palin on the opening of this weekend's SNL. While TDS has a limited audience, I think this clip reaches a much bigger audience, and hopefully causes them to question the woman who could be our President just a little bit:



That's all I have to say about that.

P.S. If you don't know what I"m talking about with Charlie Gibson, here's the best clip of the interview (the whole thing is kind of dry):



I mean GEEZ! I KNOW WHAT THE BUSH DOCTRINE IS! I AM ACTUALLY MORE QUALIFIED TO BE VP THAN SARA FUCKING PALIN! ARGH SHE COULD BE OUR PRESIDENT!! WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO US REPUBLICANS?!?!