The Media is Dead and No One Cares

I have a dilemma, as I’m sure most political junkies do.

I breath news.

Any sort of news. Mainly political news. It’s my drug.

So what happens when the quality of your drug really starts to stink? When it’s been diluted with a cheap substitute. Where it’s expected to have meaning instead I’m getting ad space.

I love the Nine Inch Nails song, “Heresy.”

That’s how I feel about the media.

I feel like I’m feeding on a dead carcus. With Tim Russert political news died. I’m getting cable this next week. Maybe John Stewart will help. Likely not.

But the truth is the media (and by media I mean mainstream media) is dead.

Ask me if I care.

P.S. I guess I should use this post to say, next week will mark both the 1 year anniversary of this blog and a renewed energy in drawing, along with a new theme.

PS to the PS: Can I just say, Wordpress 2.6 is awesome…it embedded this YouTube clip without me pulling my hair out.

A Letter to the Clintonistas

To Hillary’s Supporters,

As I’m sure you all know, tonight was a historic night.

For the first time in American history, an African-American won the Democratic nomination for president of the United States. Unfortunately, for some of you, this nomination seems rigged. As the last two weeks have unfolded you’ve fallen back on accusations of sexism as the reason for Clinton’s loss. Some even suggested there was some conspiracy behind Clinton’s lack of pledged delegates. This argument has been spurred on by your leader, HRC, and used to drive a wedge between fellow democrats.

Tonight I hoped for something different from Hillary. I hoped she’d offer me some reason to get behind a joint ticket. Unfortunately, the Hillary Clinton I saw tonight was the same Hillary I’ve seen since she started to campaign last year. And I know I’m not alone. The other 18 million American’s who voted for Obama saw the same person.

This is the reason your candidate lost the election. (And remember, this was her election to lose…)

Tonight, on display, was a candidate who, despite her professed advocacy for civil-rights, could not bring herself to concede in the face of history. Instead she chose to stain the moment with her arrogance.

Her South Dakota victory speech became a speech about the creative math that gives her the “popular” vote count. She pushed you, her supporters to her website to show their support and donate to her candidacy. I went to her website and I encountered the second reason she lost.

She fails to understand social media and how politics are changing forever.

My comments on her blog are never filled with profanity. I do not degrade anyone, but I am honest about being an Obama supporter. And my comments do not post. How can your candidate advocate an open dialogue with her constituents and her blog (one of the most open, social forms of connecting with people) is screened like Putin’s Russia.

And so I end with this final request. I’d just finished watching McCain’s speech and thought I’d witnessed the lowest of class. I was wrong. I watched Clinton’s speech. This was the lowest of class.

My request is that you reconsider your pledge to take this to Denver or vote for McCain.

However, if you, as Clinton supporters, really want to vote for McCain come November…I for one do not care. If you, as women, really feel that a white male who’s against women’s right to choose what to do with their health, I do not care. If you appreciate men, who under the stress of a long day, call their wife a “cunt” who wears too much make-up. Again I do not care. (Because it’s my blog I can say the “c” word without being screened)

I say “I don’t care” with complete confidence that there are millions out there who are not like you, millions that are bothered by a McCain presidency, that do not want to look their own sons and daughters in the eye, and say, “I voted for McCain.”

Congratulations Clinton! You’re officially the candidate for…

the racists that still exist in this country.

What disturbs me is that there is obvious racist sentiments leading to Clinton’s victory in West Virginia. There were reports in exit polling that two-thirds of the voters in West Virginia would not vote for Obama because he is black. This should disturb Clinton more than anyone. Why should she celebrate in their votes? And it should disturb her supporters. It taints anyone that supports her.

Clinton has no chance of winning the nomination. It’s over. It’s long been over, but the Democratic party has been patient with her. And yet she continues on, based on the hope that super delegates will cozy to her broad base appeal argument.

My argument against the broad based appeal and the idea that Obama can’t win white, working class American’s is basic. I don’t want to be in a party that has racists. Period. I thought that was the other party (in fact the last two presidential elections West Virginia did in fact go to Repubicans). So if the Democratic party wants to make the argument that in order to win the election, it must appeal to this group, then sorry - I’m not party to that.

In fact if Hillary truly is not a racist then I’d expect her to come out and reject, repudiate and denounce the votes of the two-thirds of West Virginia. But of course we wont’ hear anything like that, instead we’ll have to endure another three weeks of torture as this nomination process slowly bleeds campaign money that could be going to the fight against McCain.

Wow…it makes you proud to be an American for the first time… right Michelle?