I had a rare treat this week - I had a rental car on my business trip that had XM Radio in it!
That means that I got to listen to radio stations that I don't otherwise get to hear. And for a news junkie that means talk radio. So, guess where I tuned - Air America!
Oh yeah, I listen to crazy leftwing media any chance I get. That might surprise you, but it shouldn't. Conservatives are newsjunkies and balanced ones at that. We give the other side a hearing. Liberals, on the other hand, who often claim to be so informed and intelligent avoid conservative media like the plague. It's easier for them to avoid conservative sources because there are so few outside of talk radio. Conservatives are inundated with liberal thought from every mainstream source, and are not afraid of it.
I can name for you the liberal talk radio hosts that I've listened to when I had the chance to. Lionel and Rhandi Rhoades on Air America. Ed Schultz and Alan Colmes on Talk Left on Sirius. Anyone on NPR. Granted, I never agree with them and often heckle them as I'm driving. But at least I give them a listen.
If you're a liberal, name for me the last conservative talk radio show that you sought out to listen to? Yeah, that's what I thought you narrow-minded conformists. :)
So, what are they talking about on leftwing radio lately? Well apparently they really hate this guy Bush.
IMPEACH! Impeach now, before lunch. Why haven't we IMPEACHED Bush yet? He's a criminal. The worst of the worst and EVERYONE knows it. IMPEACH. How should we impeach? When can we impeach? Should we wait to impeach until right before the election to win the most seats? Can we impeach Cheney at the same time? What's wrong with the Democrats in the House that they haven't IMPEACHED Bush yet? How could he have commuted Libby - IMPEACH!
It was pretty entertaining for as long as I had it.
Oh, and apparently they are worked up this week over Republican Senator David Vitter of Lousiana, who's name popped up on the phone call list of the D.C madam. HYPOCRITE! Which, as I've mentioned before seems to be one of the worst offenses on the liberal radar screen - conservative hypocrisy. There is no liberal hypocrisy after all, because they have no standards from which they could fall short of. Everything's okay. Go for it. If that's your motto, how could you be a hypocrite? You can't. Me personally, I prefer the guys who hold up standards for our culture even if they ocassionally fall short of them.
Do I care that David Vitter of Louisiana apparently visited call girls in New Orleans? Is that the biggest problem they have in New Orleans, where liberal Democrats rule? Corruption? deeply entrenched systemic poverty,? Any of that ring a bell? And we have to chase Vitter out of office because he went to a hooker?
I wish I had Air America more often. I could use the entertainment.
Sunday, July 15, 2007
McCain Flames Out
John McCain is toast as a presidential candidate. Ive know that for a long time. The only ones who don't know that yet are McCain himself and the mainstream media who love him and are scratching-their-hair puzzled as to why the rest of America doesn't love him as much as they do.
We're at the point in this never-ending primary season where second tier candidates start falling away because of lack of funds to continue. Jim Gilmore, for example, announced this week that he was dropping out on the Republican side. About time. I never saw a point to his candidacy in the first place. What no one in the press foresaw, however, is that a front-runner like McCain could crash into that "no funds" territory so rapidly and be on the verge of withdrawal. If you haven't paid attention lately, McCain just fired all of his money men and does not apparently even have enough funs to hire a bus to campaign on.
It's easy to diagnose if you're part of the Republican base, as I am. We don't like McCain. Haven't for a long time. Yes, he's solid on the War and we're thankful for that. However, McCain regularly jumps in on the wrong side of issues and aligns himself with the most wrong-headed of liberals. How many bills in the Senate have to be labelled "McCain-some blowhard liberal Senator" for the base to turn on him? Too many, that's how many. Starting with "McCain-Feingold" - that abomination of a bill called campaign finance reform which shredded the Constitution to protect political incumbents - McCain began alienating Rebulicans that he needs to win an election.
Bottom line: his co-sponsorship with Ted Kennedy of the massively ill-conceived secret immigration reform deal (McCain-Kennedy) cooked up in the back rooms of the Senate was the final straw. No recovery. It's over.
McCain, and his petulant allies in the press, are snippy about this arguing that McCain acts on "principle not polls". Bull. That petulant response betrays a liberal bias both in the press and in McCain's candidacy. Who says that the McCain position on immigration is more principled than his opponents in the Republican base? Liberals, that's who. That's crap. And it's whiny crap from a candidate who is done and doesn't yet know it.
We're at the point in this never-ending primary season where second tier candidates start falling away because of lack of funds to continue. Jim Gilmore, for example, announced this week that he was dropping out on the Republican side. About time. I never saw a point to his candidacy in the first place. What no one in the press foresaw, however, is that a front-runner like McCain could crash into that "no funds" territory so rapidly and be on the verge of withdrawal. If you haven't paid attention lately, McCain just fired all of his money men and does not apparently even have enough funs to hire a bus to campaign on.
It's easy to diagnose if you're part of the Republican base, as I am. We don't like McCain. Haven't for a long time. Yes, he's solid on the War and we're thankful for that. However, McCain regularly jumps in on the wrong side of issues and aligns himself with the most wrong-headed of liberals. How many bills in the Senate have to be labelled "McCain-some blowhard liberal Senator" for the base to turn on him? Too many, that's how many. Starting with "McCain-Feingold" - that abomination of a bill called campaign finance reform which shredded the Constitution to protect political incumbents - McCain began alienating Rebulicans that he needs to win an election.
Bottom line: his co-sponsorship with Ted Kennedy of the massively ill-conceived secret immigration reform deal (McCain-Kennedy) cooked up in the back rooms of the Senate was the final straw. No recovery. It's over.
McCain, and his petulant allies in the press, are snippy about this arguing that McCain acts on "principle not polls". Bull. That petulant response betrays a liberal bias both in the press and in McCain's candidacy. Who says that the McCain position on immigration is more principled than his opponents in the Republican base? Liberals, that's who. That's crap. And it's whiny crap from a candidate who is done and doesn't yet know it.
Torture Porn
In case you are not a 16 to 22 year old male and have missed it, there is a whole new genre of movies coming out of Hollywood in the last few years. The genre is affectionately referred to by it's young fans as "torture porn".
Think about that for a minute. Torture porn. Is that a positive sign for the culture of a civilization? That it has invented and embraced "torture porn" as a form of matinee entertainment to go with your overpriced bucket of popcorn.
It's not actual porn, mind you. Available only in adult stores or theaters. No, it's only called porn for it's allure to it's young afficianados. It's quite available at the local multiplex for anyone over 17 who slaps down money at the box-office. Gee, do I go see "Die Hard" or torture porn?
Torture porn hit it's stride with several now-franchise movies including "Saw" - which has a deviant imprisoning strangers and having them harm each other to save themselves - and "Hostel" in which hapless teens touring Europe are kidnapped and strapped down for killers who pay for their own murder vacation. Such fun. Want gummy worms at the concession stand for that? "Saw" is on it's third incarnation, and "Hostel II" came out this summer.
Now we are treated to billboards along the highway touting the July 13th release of "Captivity", where blonde sex symbol Elisha Cuthbert is kidnapped and tortured by some psycho for your date night fun in the dark. From the ratings section of "Rotten Tomatoes" review site, this rating: "MPAA RATING - R, for strong violence, torture, pervasive terror, grisly images, language and some sexual material." Fortunately, only 7% of the reviewers - some self admitted fans of the genre, gave "Captivity" a positive review. But don't get optimistic - some gave it a bad review because it wasn't creative enough for them or didn't have enough terror and gore. It bored them. One reviewer panned it because the character development was so bad that he eventually "didn't care if she lived or died". Really?
Look, I don't care what movies you go see or don't go see if you're an adult. But can't you see that we are way down the slippery slope of a degrading culture if torture porn is getting greenlighted by the money moguls in Hollywood?
It's an especially jarring phenomenon, considering the onslaught of real life stories in the news of violence happening to young women. Just watch the news regularly and pay attention to the stories. A young woman, recently graduated from high school and full of promise, walks out of a Target store and into the hands of her killers - body to be found days later. A young girl in England, missing for a year, found imprisioned under a stairwell.
Doesn't it bother those of you buying tickets for this crap that the same week that "Captivity" opens the dead body of a 12 year old girl snatched out of her family's yard at a fireworks celebration on the 4th of July is found in Seattle? It bothers me. There's enough real life kidnapping, and torture, and murder being visited on women. You have to go see it for entertainment in a theater? Just asking.
What a depraved people we've become.
Think about that for a minute. Torture porn. Is that a positive sign for the culture of a civilization? That it has invented and embraced "torture porn" as a form of matinee entertainment to go with your overpriced bucket of popcorn.
It's not actual porn, mind you. Available only in adult stores or theaters. No, it's only called porn for it's allure to it's young afficianados. It's quite available at the local multiplex for anyone over 17 who slaps down money at the box-office. Gee, do I go see "Die Hard" or torture porn?
Torture porn hit it's stride with several now-franchise movies including "Saw" - which has a deviant imprisoning strangers and having them harm each other to save themselves - and "Hostel" in which hapless teens touring Europe are kidnapped and strapped down for killers who pay for their own murder vacation. Such fun. Want gummy worms at the concession stand for that? "Saw" is on it's third incarnation, and "Hostel II" came out this summer.
Now we are treated to billboards along the highway touting the July 13th release of "Captivity", where blonde sex symbol Elisha Cuthbert is kidnapped and tortured by some psycho for your date night fun in the dark. From the ratings section of "Rotten Tomatoes" review site, this rating: "MPAA RATING - R, for strong violence, torture, pervasive terror, grisly images, language and some sexual material." Fortunately, only 7% of the reviewers - some self admitted fans of the genre, gave "Captivity" a positive review. But don't get optimistic - some gave it a bad review because it wasn't creative enough for them or didn't have enough terror and gore. It bored them. One reviewer panned it because the character development was so bad that he eventually "didn't care if she lived or died". Really?
Look, I don't care what movies you go see or don't go see if you're an adult. But can't you see that we are way down the slippery slope of a degrading culture if torture porn is getting greenlighted by the money moguls in Hollywood?
It's an especially jarring phenomenon, considering the onslaught of real life stories in the news of violence happening to young women. Just watch the news regularly and pay attention to the stories. A young woman, recently graduated from high school and full of promise, walks out of a Target store and into the hands of her killers - body to be found days later. A young girl in England, missing for a year, found imprisioned under a stairwell.
Doesn't it bother those of you buying tickets for this crap that the same week that "Captivity" opens the dead body of a 12 year old girl snatched out of her family's yard at a fireworks celebration on the 4th of July is found in Seattle? It bothers me. There's enough real life kidnapping, and torture, and murder being visited on women. You have to go see it for entertainment in a theater? Just asking.
What a depraved people we've become.
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