The Rivrsis reads my blog. She is not on the political right and sometimes I have a hard time defining her position on things. Sometimes, however, her rants ring like a bell.
Take this rant, for instance, which she has agreed to let me post here:
"THE --- MEDIA --- ARE --- *NOT*--- LIBERAL --- AFTER --- ALL *!!!!!*
Just because there are a few "liberal" talking heads on TV doesn't make it liberal. The media are full of mushy right-wingers like that Glenn Beck idiot, and fake-reformed-bigot people like that Pat Robertson, and the insulting-to-behold-on-TV puppets like Oliver North, and all the blonde and official-ethnic bimbos on Fox, with their collagen-puffed lips pouting right-wingish nasties in SUCH a Texas-sexy American way, like news was a big beauty contest, really.
And get this fact thru your pate: the media aren't anti-Christian, they are pro-conflict. Conflict and error and malfeasance and violence sell much more ad time than polite discourse or fair-mindedness. There's a conflict between the Huckabish folk who are busy being busybodies into everyone's lives, plus making a helluva lot of money, until the Rapture takes them up to heaven (or is it Heaven?), and the people who foolishly think that having learned about the Constitution in school (if they were so lucky), it actually obtains in the real world. Therefore, it's a fit TV (and other media, podcasts, Dick Tracy wristwatches, iPhones, etc.) topic, and can be prolonged indefinitely, as the 2 sides (and their various grey-level hangers-on in the mid-zone) are stubbornly locked into their beliefs in opposition to each other.
Hey, let's put some snake-handlin' and bible-thumpin' in class and after school and before Friday naht football, and by the flagpole, and under the hangin' tree. No, no, don't do that, my boy might become a Hindu, or a Jew."
Fine rant, sis.
You can see the fambly resemblance here, no?
Now, if only my Dad were still alive and trusted these heah innarTubes, he would have outdone the both of us.
