RETHINKING: Political Spin

Because some things speak for themselves, and because everytime I make a political commentary here I swear I HATE politics, here's a clip from last night's Daily Show that easily speaks volumes:



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RETHINKING SCIENCE: GeoThermal Energy

It's long past time for us to begin thinking outside the box as far as energy goes. In what little research I've done (and remember the old cliche' that "a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing"), and presented to you is that our very belief in what we've been taught of science needs to at least be questioned if not proven outright WRONG. Our petroleum dependence seems to be driven more by economy and profit than practicality and science.

Previously I showed you the abiotic theory of petroleum, how oil is theorised to be a totally renewable resource, and the imposed "scarcity" of it to be driven by profit mongers. Now I have ran across a renewable, safer than most, energy source that our current science is aware of, but the government refuses to properly fund to totally develop as a primary source of electricity into our homes. I bring you, via YouTube and CalEnergy (that actually has a couple of these plants up and operating, and have for about 20 years now, GEO-THERMAL ENERGY:



Like I said, there are a couple of plants of this type already running in California, and Governor Arnold has recently stepped up the care and upkeep of these plants realizing their potential. The federal government has steadily decreased all funding and research into this field for the simple reason that it is cheap, available to us at our current technology level, safe, renewable, and UNPROFITABLE compared to petroleum use. They already expect us to swallow the old science that oil is a fossil fuel and will eventually run out, now we see that, like GM and their electric car, they have developed technology for cheap (MUCH cheaper than our current) energy use and have stifled it in order for a few fat cats, countries, and corporations to rape some jing out of our pockets.

I know what you're thinking "Oh, you're just some crazy monkey- what the hell do you know?"- only what I see with an open mind folks. Now, here's the REAL rub, there is ANOTHER form of geo-thermal energy that the US developed (in Los Alamos no less) TWENTY YEARS AGO, that has been available to us, at an eventually cheaper rate that our current energy availability, started under the Carter administration, that has had its funding castrated ever since the Reagan administration, that they all knew about BACK THEN would give us ample cheap energy, on a renewable basis, environmentally safe, already developed and proven. Here's a film clip documentary on the DRY ROCK GEO-THERMAL SYSTEM, easily explained, easily exploited, if only we had a government that cared enough to fund it. I apologize in advance for the dry presentation of this documentary- it was obviously done some time ago, apparently back during the Clinton administration, but it IS worth your while to watch it:



Water is still mostly free folks, this system would only recycle itself over and over, and I have yet to find ANY reason (other than corporate greed) that would keep us from popping up plants like this all over the country. I JUST heard Sarah Palin mention Geo-Thermal energy in her acceptance speech last night- that's the first mention I've heard of it during this whole campaign, but like I said before- I've been trying to avoid all the rhetoric, and my mentioning this is NOT any kind of endorsement for Palin- I'm still mulling about doing yet another political post tomorrow that would focus on Palin, but I'm really trying not to.

in the meantime, THINK about Geo-Thermal- do your own snooping and let me know if I'm off base here (okay, you can tell me if I'm full of shit- I'm a big monkey and I can take it!)and most importantly:

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COMICS MY WAY: MY HISTORY

When I was a small little monkey, raised in a small cage in a small town, I needed the escape of comics just to try to stay sane. My parents, afraid of the violence and probably juvenile delinquent influences found in these silly books, refused to allow me to have any comics with superheroes in them. So I was left with Saturday Morning (see my post about Space Ghost below), the small box of mostly superhero comics my grandparents kept stashed at their house, and the Adam West Batman show. After taking a spanking for smuggling in a Batman 80 pager (and, I HAVE to wonder what kind of beating would I have gotten if I had brought home a CURRENT version of Batman I shudder), I eventually started getting every other kind of comic into the house to read and escape with as well as learn to draw my own as much as possible.


I came to love comics as an art form and saw it’s potential very early on, though probably on some subconscious level, I understood most of the language of comics, the storytelling, the flow, the very ART of it all. Like I said above I was restricted from any kind of superheroes in the house, so in my hard core quest to soak up comics in any form I literally absorbed ANYTHING on comics I could find at the local library, the collections of any of my friends, as well as anything I could get away reading at my local drugstore. Frankly, by the time my parents rescinded their no superhero policy I knew as much about each and every one of the costumed vigilantes before even owning a single issue of their adventures.


During this time I did convince my parent to allow me to buy Strange Adventures featuring Adam Strange, able to pass him off as an ordinary Joe in a space suit that kinda looked like a superhero outfit, as well as most everything that Gold Key printed. In fact the deciding factor that superheroes weren’t all that bad for me came as a result of a Twilight Zone comics digest that had a few morality plays featuring folks selling their souls to the devil. My mom decided that she’s rather have me reading morality plays about guys wearing brightly colored spandex as opposed to morality plays that featured demons. Luckily she never read an issue of Ghost Rider or Son of Satan that I bought. Eerie and Creepy, along with Conan and the Marvel Magazines would come in a little later.


A few years after being allowed to have superheroes I bargained a deal with my local drugstore to stop by after school and straighten out all of their comics shelves in return for a dollar’s worth of comics. A deal that went awry when I tried to barter for the first issue of Planet Of The Apes magazine, which was a buck twenty five. When the comic collection got to be too big I would bargain away issues for others, or give away grocery bags full to allow folks to sell at rummage sales.

In High School there came the above-mentioned magazines, which lead to my discovering underground comics. Then, when I was allowed a car and able to drive back and forth from work, I discovered a local bookstore that was in early on the direct distribution system. They got comics 3 weeks ahead of the newsstand, which was awesome to me and just encouraged me to read even more. Then, with them getting comics from Big Rapids distributors (which I believe eventually became Glenwood Distributors) they also started carrying more esoteric comics like Cerebus (where I was in on the ground floor with that title) as well as First Kingdom and the Tandra books.


The first Graphic Novels weren’t too far behind as Eclipse’s Sabre as well as others emerged. I started taking a liking to oddball formats, looking to read comics that came from anywhere, any country, as long as I could read them, and most any size shape of form (like the pocketbook collections, or anything bound into a book, or even some of the lighter sci-fi and pulp works like Doc Savage and Weird Heroes).

After high school, I was lucky enough to take the backroom of the arcade I was working in and, again with the help of Big Rapids Distributors, start my own little comic shop, the first one ever in my county. There I sold the first Fantasy Quarterly ElfQuest, as well as more issues of Cerebus, I took in collections and sold some and got ripped off on others. I remember fondly the Byrne Claremont X-men during this period. The shop was pretty successful to start with, but after a short time it became aggravating and frustrating to me as I was reading and selling product that I KNEW I could do better. Eventually, after the owner of the arcade messing with our books and (realizing that we were turning in a good profit) trying to enforce a high rent on us, we shut the store down, but not until after planting the bug in a number of other comic collectors to follow suit and start their own shops.


Then I got married the first time and life got into the way. I started working for a living at the very bookstore that I had made my primary stopping point only a few years before, and started something of a family, still with the bug to draw and see some of my own comic stories in print. After attending a few conventions and drawing up a few ideas, I traveled halfway across the state to visit a comic convention in the mall where there would be a professional guest to show my work to. The guest never showed, but there was another dealer there that was printing a little localized comic, so I showed my stuff to him. He asked me point blank why I hadn’t been printed yet, and to send him a story and her would print it.

That little 8 page story took four months for me to do and re-do and when I finally saw it out in print, well that was it as far as I was concerned, that’s what I wanted to do from then on, much to the chagrin of my then wife. I was divorced not long after that.


My need for work spun me into commercial art and being the art department for one of the bigger screen printers in the county, but I was still getting as much as possible printed, or self printed whenever or wherever I could. I produced comics during both the black and white boom and bust, I’ve knocked on the door at one time or another of most all of the major (and some of the minor) comic companies over the last 2 and a half decades. I’ve gotten SO close to a decent amount of respect and a good deal from the big two and missed out by a hair’s breath on more than one occasion. I’ve bluntly pissed off quite a few editors, almost twice as many as have gotten my admiration and respect, and burned enough bridges to keep anyone from driving across town. I’ve started and stopped no less than four self-publishing companies, and I’ve seen comics from almost EVERY possible angle and researched them through almost every possible era.


If you doubt my ability to understand comics then I welcome you to buy my 3 part miniseries, entitled oddly enough, Spank The Monkey On The Comic Market, where I’ve pointed out my views on comics’ past, present, and future. I have to tell you I know a LOT about comics, mostly because I LOVE comics!

My reasons for spewing all this to you is that through this blog I plan on staking my claim as a comic book art form critique. I’ve shown you a little bit of my REAL credentials here, just in case you stumble across a future posting here of “Comics My Way” and you think I’m full of shit, I wholeheartedly submit to you that I am not. So I hope when future installments of Comics My Way headers pop up here that you not only read them, but you let me know what you think about them and contribute to whatever discussion(s) you can about this art form. Feel free to send anyone here to my blog that you can. Feel free to use me as reference, as I will use references whenever I can, but most of these "Comics My Way" posts will be about how I would change things in comics and why.

When it comes to comics, there’s a lot to talk about, there’s a LOT of things horribly, horribly wrong and I plan on not just bitchin’ and moaning about the screwed up shit, but offer solutions on what I would do to fix it, and what HAS to be done to fix it, and how I would do comics MY WAY. Plus I might even tell you when comics are going right- but don't hold your breath waiting for it.

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My Hero: Keith Olbermann

I find most politics insipid, really I do. Despite some of the recent rants and posts here I honestly try to avoid political talk because three quarters of it is bad talking head spin for whatever political party the speaker is goose stepping with. VERY few of those talking heads actually BELIEVE in what they are saying to back it up by genuine fact (and not 90% opinion poll), let alone get PISSED about the point they are calling out on.

MSNBC's Keith Olbermann gets pissed. He genuinely seems to care about what he's covering to the point of sweating, allowing his blood pressure to rise, and spit genuine passionate venom at the people he gets pissed about. Are all of his opinions dead-on? Not to me, not 100%, but he does seem to do his best to back up what he's reporting with enough facts to make his point more convincing, and quite honestly more entertaining, than most any other serious reporter on the cable news channels today. Here he is, calling Rush Limbaugh out on some statements he made on his radio show about the recent Edwards smear, and especially the remarks made by Limbaugh about Mrs. Edwards:


He runs a Worst People Of The Day segment on his show that points out the three most irritating people that he's run across. This segment focuses on Walmart's treatment of Mrs. Shanks:


This one covers the resolution of the Shanks affair:


Like or hate his viewpoints at the very least he is entertaining, usually wherever he goes. Here he is explaining to PBS's Bill Moyers why he gets soo pissed on his program:


You can find a number of his rants on YouTube (which is obviously where all of these clips originate from), or you can track down his show COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN on MSNBC (honestly one of the VERY few reasons to watch the channel), and occasionally on your local NBC affiliate on weekends (check your local listings for time and placement). Personally I enjoy the YouTube segments the most (the recent clips of him telling his channel's co-hort Joe Scarborough to "Get a shovel" is great entertainment indeed!), but at the very least you have to appreciate his passion about his work. To have a soap box like that, to be passionate in your as-informed-as-possible beliefs and not afraid to speak out about them, THAT makes Keith Olbermann my hero.

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Heroes That I Miss: Space Ghost

Growing up with only 3 channels on the TV set, no VCR or net, left a young kid breathlessly awaiting Saturday morning cartoons the same way as most kids anxiously awaited Christmas morning. Every week there were mostly new spectacles to watch, and each show seemed cooler than the last. Of course that was the late sixties and the angry moms and government who thought that the excess violence on TV made their kids into raving maniacs (but the violence they all watched on the theater screen somehow allowed them to come through life okay), and not their lack of discipline and adherence to Dr. Spock (the baby doctor NOT the Vulcan), who told parents that hitting their child on the ass when they were bad made YOU an uncontrollable maniac (wonder if he blamed the violence the parent saw when watching 3 stooges- but I digress).

So, in the late sixties there were a few (VERY few mind you) years where Saturday
morning cartoons were COOL. Hanna-Barbera was spreading the word of justice to all
every kid in the forms of mostly mindless simpleton stories wrapped around cool
super heroic characters that we all came to love. There were “mainstream” comic book
characters then too, with every new season bringing on new recognizable characters, and even cooler new characters that Hanna Barbara could have and should have exploited further, but rarely if ever did.


One of my favorites from this time period was Space Ghost. More than an intergalactic superhero, this guy seemed all-powerful, able to fly through space, he had super strength, and an array of power blasters from his big red bracelets, mostly whenever he pressed one of the 3 big buttons on them and told us just what ray he was using. He could turn invisible, carried a force field with him at all times, and could communicate with the other members of his team by pressing the insignia on his chest long before anyone on Star Trek’s Next Generation ever could. All this and he carried a pair of kids and a monkey who just seemed to slow him down, get him into deeper trouble, and add humor relief in every episode. He was an intergalactic super policeman who could always handle the job, no matter how nutty the villain was (and there were quite a few nutters in his rogues gallery I assure you), and an incredible single parent to boot in a time when you KNEW that one parent households were tough.


Space Ghost’s kids Jan and Jace never got into deep trouble or even grounded for their stupidity (at least not what I remember) and it seemed that Space Ghost kept them with him to train them and guide them as much as put up with them, them and their crazy silly monkey Blip. The kids and the monkey were fodder to all us kids though, we all wanted to see Space Ghost in solo action- screw the kids.

The Space Ghost show also had another cartoon wedged in between it called DinoBoy, about a modern day kid jammed into a lost world of dinosaurs, lizard men, and Nethanderals, but that show was not nearly as cool as Space Ghost.

I’m by far not alone in my admiration of The Ghost, as many of my generation remember him fondly, over the years there was the occasional comic book appearance, or sketch at a con (I still had 2 of the Gold Key comics and the Big Little Book of Space Ghost myself- all of which go for mostly big bucks today, and believe me, they are all falling apart.

When Cartoon Network began re-running their older H-B cartoons we were all ecstatic (except my cable company at the time took their damn sweet time getting the Cartoon Network, and by the time they did those older HB shows were mostly stuck to the late, late hours of early morning- damn you Comcast!) and there seemed a renewed interest in all things Space Ghost, then disaster struck in the form of cartoon Network TOTALLY blowing their chance to rejuvenate this intergalactic policeman- they turned him into a talk show host.


Luckily Space Ghost From Coast to Coast was marginally funny or I would be completely pissed at how they literally cut off the head and shit down the throat of such a great character’s potential. I later came to understand that the Sad Sacks at Cartoon Network really had NO idea what to do with Space Ghost (apparently they were not the hardcore fans the rest of us were) and just allowed him, and most of his previous cast, to be bastardized and ridiculed (and don’t even get me started on the abortions that they did off of Jonny Quest and Bird-man; 2 other of my favorites from that period), Needless to say I still hold Cartoon Network in complete contempt to this day for fucking up, not only a first class merchandising opportunity, but the chance to graduate Space Ghost up into a more dramatic adult audience. They’ll run every inane Japanese anime drama they can get their claws into, but all the American cartoons have to either be for kids or stupidly immature Beavis and Butthead mentality (with NONE of that show’s quality I might add).

Just a year or two ago I witnessed a sad attempt at just that in the form of a mini-series from DC Comics (whose parent company also owns all of the HB characters) that was way too embarrassing for words. I read the first 2 issues and quickly stopped buying the series, complete with the knowledge that, just like the Cartoon Network, they too had NO idea of the true potential and possibilities this character and his cast could have. Frankly folks some things are MUCH better off left alone and sequestered to the nostalgic past.


There is now a DVD collection of all the Space Ghost shows available that (along with the original Bird-man and the Galaxy trio compilation) make for great mindless viewing on those odd times when you want to watch something cool and not have to think too much about it. I HIGHLY recommend you buying these collections, but at the same time remember that these are certainly NOT the talk show host you are probably used to by now. Granted the writing sucked, most of the plotting was so bad that I honestly believe there was a whole slew of writers spawned from them just because the viewers knew they could write better, and most of them did. But for the sheer spectacle and FUN of the shows and concepts themselves they are worth buying.


Space Ghost was created by Alex Toth, who designed most of the vast majority of the HB characters from that era, leaving an indelible mark upon those of us who got to watch his work as we were growing up, all the way from Space Angel to Josie and The Pussycats In Outer Space and beyond. Toth was truly one of the rarest of geniuses of animation, one who could take the sadly mundane and kiddish, and jazz it up to the ultimate in cool simplistic design. A man who never really realized how amazing he was, and what kind of mark he left on our generation, until he was close to his death, and then barely had time to understand and appreciate our thanks for his efforts. Saturday Mornings would have been completely different without his mark, and a whole lot less spectacular. Now if only these sad execs running these companies who can’t seem to wrap their brains around the sheer genius of Toth, could only try to make cartoons even half as good and fun. We’d happily put up with some lame writing if only we can watch some dramatic fun American based cartoons like Space Ghost again. The current cartoon watchers are missing out, or are thinking that only the Japanese can do great dramatic animation, especially if they haven’t seen cartoons like Space Ghost and Jonny Quest in their original forms.

Here’s to hoping that HB doesn’t stop with the DVD releases at Space Ghost and Bird-man either, because there are a good amount of other REALLY cool cartoons from that period, like Frankenstein Jr and The Impossibles, Samson and Goliath, and Moby Dick and Mighty Mightor, along with a number of other great Heroes That I Miss.

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WTF Friday: A Day Late And About 20 Bucks Short

A rough collection of small ramblings and rants from the previous week, that SHOULD have been brought to you on Friday:

* Went to see Babylon AD Friday morning and realized why all the missed Hollywood "opportunities" I've had might have been for the best. There MUST have been a pretty good movie in there somewhere, just don't ask me exactly where. Look, we have your gritty depressive sci-fi world, your bright and shiny futuristic sci-fi world, some action using snowmobiles, oh, and we'll try to make a religious statement here too. All I can say is that I sat through it, was liking it in parts, and then the whole movie just kind of shredded in a bad haze of "you know what would be REALLY cool here..." and ending with a "Oh yeah, this was all based on a book, here's the end of the story", then CLUNK an "epilogue" that left we saying "oh yeah, the lead character would really do THAT!". Is Vin Diesel in control of his scripts because this was kind of the way I felt after watching Riddick, only Riddick was a lot more fun over all (more cool shit to look at), with that family oriented Disney film brought up for the last scene. I kind of expected either a large explosion, or some animated talking forest creatures there at the end- oh well.

*So, back to my original point above, after watching Babylon AD and Clone Wars a week or 2 before, perhaps my not making a great Hollywood connection isn't all bad, and no wonder I'm a cynical bastard when it comes to that kind of shit. I've had enough "talk" with agents, and moguls (producers and the like), and seen enough clunky film making to DESERVE to be cynical- though one meeting of Hollyweird "talk" with an unbounced check at the end of it would probably change all that- HAH!

*I've been trying to add more comic oriented stuff here to the blog, and I've got 2-4entries started and will probably finish at least a couple of them this weekend, so if all the video and non comics stuff has been boring you of late hang in there, I'll catch up.

*This last week has been a bit of a low energy week for me, I ran through a torrent of work these last few months and have been steadily working this week for sure, but it seems like mostly low paying almost "catch up" type work. I'm still aching to get something a lot more creative going really really SOON.

*Lately I've been getting into political discussions that I really don't mean to do. After defending some big party political move I've been catching myself thinking "But that's all because they're running for office, once they get in it'll be the same ol' shit". Honestly politics normally bore the crap out of me and I try to avoid them, so I'll use short hand and say 1) Yes, Obama looked REALLY presidential, and Bidden gives off the aura of being a stand-up guy and there might be real "Change" happening here. 2)Hillary's speech (what I was able to sit through) seemed forced, fake, and too saccharin, but I hope she convinces enough women to look at their personal lives before voting for Palin and decide which of the 2 PRESIDENTIAL candidates could do the most to better their existence and vote that way, which I honestly think most intelligent women will do 3)McCain is a joke, comes off as a wiley snake, and for the last 2-4 years now- really ever since "The Straight-Talk Express" came to a screeching halt, has come off as a wishy-washy bastard- the crap about his houses is sad and funny at the same time and 4) the STUNT CASTING of Palin is interesting, like the republicans think women will just vote for a women. I LIKE Palin's economic record (what little one she has), but her anti-gay, anti-choice stance sickens me, PLUS the fact that she's a "slash and burn" politician who in the short time she's been politicking has left a trail of former candidates (mostly from her own party yet) cut off at the knees with their political throats slit and shit down- THAT might make her a GREAT vice president if she was doing all of that "justice seeking" because of her conscience and not for all the political gain she has aquired- THAT'S REALLY SCARY.

*I did win a small bet from my Republican friend that McCain didn't choose Lieberman as his VP- but I told him when we bet that McCain probably had as much choice in his VP as I did over the casting of the Watchmen movie. Again, Palin is a GREAT choice, but in the upcoming weeks I'm thinking the words "Republican ploy" and "backstabber" will follow her like her shadow. I told my buddy for her to be but a little footnote in history, of less importance than Dan Quayle, but then again I could be wrong.

*Now I'll be getting a lot of work done away from the TV for the next week because I've already heard all the republican rhetoric, and quit honestly I've been sick of this political crap for months, so I suppose I desperately need to STFU and find more important, much less depressing, much more fulfilling stuff to talk about!

*So maybe that's why I'm a bit depressed this morning, too much politics and not enough FUN!

*Is it me or are we looking at a horrible season of new TV? Very little "new" in there isn't it? I'll probably address that in a future post, but there's not a whole lot starting up this year (at least not this fall) that's catching my attention. But then, I'm still pissed that Chuck gets a second season and Journeyman never made it past a 13th episode.

*Speaking of Journeyman- have you been to Fancast.com? Awesome of them to set up free showings of some true fan favorite TV. Sure the broadcasting is a bit flawed, but the episodes are still watchable, and really perfect for small screen "browsing" while working on more important stuff- look them up if you like that kind of thing.

*Well, that's it for now- more soon- and thanks for reading my ramblings- hope your week went well.

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Some Things Just Need To Be Repeated: I Have A Dream

Could not let the day pass without mentioning that it was 45 years ago that Dr. Martin Luther King gave his "I Have A Dream" speech in Washington DC. If you have not ever listened to the entire speech you should do so, and honestly do so often.

Not just powerful it its delivery, but most powerful in its words and intent. I would suggest that MKL day commemorate more that the life of the man who spoke this speech, but we should make it a point to listen, perform, inact and celebrate the meaning and heart of his I Have A Dream speech. THIS is America to me, and a thought SO worth remembering and celebrating:



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RE Thinking Our Victorian Values

This article from New Scientist, Men from polygamous countries live longer than men from monogamous ones. Seems the secret to a longer life for men comes in the form of 2 or more wives. Here's the addy for the article, or simply check on the headline above:

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/dn14564-polygamy-is-the-key-to-a-long-life.html

This could easily kick me up into a rant about "Victorian Values" and the original reason for monogamy being a control device from the organized churches to keep people just happy enough to remain members of the church and populate society, but controlled enough to not have TOO much fun (most druid, wiccan, and pagan religions consider abundant sex- between consenting adults mind you-to be a step towards heaven and godliness), but I'll sum this up by making the following statement:

"Perhaps the secret to a long life IS mental happiness and contentment, however it might be found."

Just a thought.

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Wake Up Site Of The Week: Life Hackery

Just found this site and thought I'd share. This site literally "rethinks" usage for common shit in directions that you might not have thought of. What else to do with Olive Oil (the oil NOT the cartoon character), old CD gem cases, used coffee grounds, stuff like that. Perhaps too Martha Stewart for some, I find this kind of rethinking interesting. Any chance to "reuse" something, other than sticking it into a recycling bin, practically is a good thing, especially if it can save you a little jing down the line. Give it a browse (or not):

http://lifehackery.com

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Rethinking: Media Spin

I caught this last night from YouTube, via Fark.com. Someone, apparently from the local Fox affiliate in Denver, wanted to interview (it seems he already tried it once) some protesters in Denver marching the day before the start of the 08 Democratic National Convention:



After a few hours of digestion (and a good night's sleep)I came to realize that I had seen all of this before. From the classic Kentucky Fried Movie via YouTube, I give you Rex Kramer: Danger Seeker:



He even kinda looks like the Fox reporter. Anyway, what I want to point out here is the ridiculous lengths the media (and Fox especially) will go to "make news".

That reporter had already tried to interview protesters earlier and had gotten the same results, yet here he goes again. Added to that is any viewer (not buying blindly into the Fox dogma) should be insulted at the "surprise" reception their cameras and reporter got, especially when I'm sure the camera was openly identified as was the microphone the reporter was carrying. They got exactly the response they expected and were "shocked" to have received it. Absolutely insulting.

Add to that the "shock" that there were folks there protestiong who didn't like Obama- SHOCK upon SHOCK for folks to have their own personal opinions! Why, that is SO not supposed to happen in the world that Fox is spinning for their viewers. Now, let's watch the channel get 100% behind McCain and be "shocked" that there are Republicans (even blind to the facts, uneducated, dogma following Republicans) who DON'T like their candidate for President. Is there a more blatant example of Americans being told to goose step behind their party's choices? There are actually viewers in that Fox affiliate's district who blindly believe everything that was "staged" here as God's Honest Truth, and that Fox is "Fair and Balanced" news reporting.

Finally, with all the chants of "Fuck Fox News" in the background being repeated over and over again, whoever was running the editing board of the station should have killed the reporter's microphone as soon as they realized what was being chanted, BUT that would not have made good news, just responsible news. The FCC probably won't make mention of the curse word repeatedly going across the airwaves either, as most anyone dimwitted enough to be insulted by such language would not want Fox News to get into trouble, though if it was on ANY other "news channel" and they happened to have stumbled across it, complaints would be filed without hesitation.

That's only part of the media spin folks, but it is a blatant example of it. Most "Media News" has as much to do with reality as prime time "reality show" programming does.

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