is fox news fucking serious

[educate_sedate]

With the shitshow in Iraq revealing the USA to be more and more guilty every moment, This sudden ressurection of Princess Diana's death case (again) is so fucking transparent.

I promise a real entry by tomorrow, and pictures. Photobucket's being a douche.

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[mister_perky]

I just imagine a comedy skit in which there's like a point/counterpoint or Nightline type setup, with a host or moderator posing a topic to the audience, like Darfur or Iraq or the decline of our public schools or the blood diamond industry, or "the fact that we've become so dumbed-down and stupid by our school system and by our media that our "news" coverage is of pointless distractions and sensationalist entertainment bullshit because useful and accurate information is too "boring" or unpopular to be profitable, sellable, news content" or what have you.

And the host introduces panelist #1: Some woman who's like, a graduate of and now professor at MIT, who's written like 8 books on the subject and spent years researching and advocating and being an activist on location in The Sudan.

Moderator: "Guest 1, what should we do?"

And she gives a lengthy, insightful, profound, rational, and and truly brilliant assessment of the current problems, the history leading to them, the obstacles in the way currently, and even poses several feasible solutions.

And the moderator comes in afterwards with "well, okay, I guess you make a few interesting points, but, I think what we really want and need to know, is what LINDSAY LOHAN thinks we should do about Darfur."

For Lindsay is, of course, panelist #2, in all her glory. Perhaps she is a drunken mess in her panelist's chair, perhaps she's a giggling mess, or passed out from partying too hard, or has her tongue down some random B-list "heartthrob" celebrity dude's throat as she grinds against him. And so on. Eventually the moderator gets her attention and, like a kid caught sleeping in class, stammers and stutters and panics and tries to pull a plausible answer out of her ass on the spot to prove she was paying attention all along.

And she babbles something like "oh I should like, do a movie there!" or some other modern equivalent of Let Them Eat Cake.

She then goes back to grinding or being passed out or whatever.

The moderator clearly and enthusiastically takes her side and hails it as the One and Only solution. The professor naturally angrily and loudly protests, the moderator cuts her off and cuts her down with "what could you possibly know about anything, you haven't had any top 10 hits. Lindsay here sang RUMORS, what the hell have you done, bitch? Written a couple books? Books are for nerds and losers."

Professor continues to protest and shout out real information before she is tackled and restrained and dragged out by security. Lindsay giggles. Or mumbles incoherently in her sleep/with dude's tongue in her mouth.

[It could also of course be Britney, or either of the Simpson girls, or either of the Duff girls, or one of the Pussycat Dolls selected at random (as if they aren't all interchangible and disposable like coke cans anyway). With only slight adjustments to my skeleton script here.]

Actaully, it's to the point where I'm cynically happy about this Diamond movie coming out now, because maybe people will finally hear about/know something about/care about the brutal repression and exploitation that fuels the diamond industry. Not because anyone really CARES about DeBeers having armed mercenaries protecting their stash, perpetual civil wars that are good for business, and especially not about black people being killed, but because "Leo Dicaprio did that movie about it and he says it's bad, mmkay."

Guuuhhhhh.