Irony

I was bored as hell a short while ago, so I began skimming through random blogs. And in between entire blogs devoted to pictures of ugly family pets and incomprehensible blather written by fourteen-year-old girls in which every single word was either (a) horribly abbreviated (for instance: "about" becoming "abt"); (b) misspelled; or (c) a slang term I'm unfamiliar with, I came across roughly twenty online diatribes written by loud-mouthed CONSERVATIVES~! (as opposed to regular conservatives, who are generally decent people once you get to know them) whining and bitching about how the internet is filled with whiny, bitchy liberals and boy-howdy ain't it good for their readers that someone is willing to TELL IT LIKE IT IS~! Usually a link to Sean Hannity appeared somewhere on the front page.

Look, there are a lot of liberals hanging out online. A lot of them are whiny and bitchy. But I don't get this right-wing obsession with the "liberal media" and how their voice is never heard. I mean, doesn't it kinda-sorta deflate your argument that the Republican Party controls the number-one news organization in the entire fucking world? Millions of people listen to the inane pettiness of intellectual gorillas like Hannity and Bill O'Reilly and Ann Coulter. Where's the liberal media? The Daily Show? I don't think that counts. And don't think I'm arguing the counterpoint, that there's a conservative (or perhaps a CONSERVATIVE~!) bias to the media. Because a lot of the time, the major news outlets at least try to be fair. They don't try very hard, mind you, but they give it a shot. The media is often ill-informed, poorly presented, and not all interested in giving the viewer all the important information, but for the most part I don't think it leans in one politcal direction or the other.

But, the CONSERVATIVES~! are convinced they don't control the media, and if they say it, it must be true. So, speaking for the Liberals of America, I'll make you a deal: we'll relinquish our Palpatine-like hold over all forms of media -- including television, the internet, radio, newspaper, and any and all formats not yet invented -- if Bush agrees to relinquish the White House and get the hell out of public view forever. And, hey, make sure Cheney and the rest of the cabient goes with him, and I'll let you keep O'Reilly.

Deal?

this ground is not the rock I thought it to be