Monday, May 01, 2006

Steven Colbert: absolute embargo

* driftglass, comin down:
"Because this morning the sepulchral quiet of the Belt was like unto the roar you’d find sticking your head inside a jet engine compared to this morning’s silence across the whole of the Mouse Circus that accompanied the absolute embargo on any mention of Steven Colbert’s 15-round, cockpunching tour de force of every Beltway sacred bovine gonad last night.

Holy Christ. Watching the Whores of Pennsylvania Avenue, and their retainers and lackeys in the MSM being fed, nipples first, through the Colbert Woodchipper it felt – for a moment – like a free country again.

Where people walk right up to trolls and monsters, bold as brass, and call them by their True Names.

It was – for that interval – a vision of a world, not without peril or enemies, but without fear. "

* driftglass on Lady Liberty:
"You believe your rights as alienable as hell. That they’re on loan to you from the State, who has every right to take them away from you when you get all uppity. Or curious. Or you persistently keep your melanin levels willfully and premeditatedly high.

You believe that the purpose of “News” is to keep you entertained. To slip its aardvark tongue deep into your ear to tickle you and tell you only what you want to hear.

You believe people who tell you pretty lies and fuck your children’s future into a shallow grave are your friends, and people who tell you blunt truths and try to keep you and everyone you love from flying off the cliff towards which you are being stampeded are your enemies.

You are, in other words, a loyal Republican."

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