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[Dilbert]

So let me get this straight: Congress has gotten massive media coverage this week for getting involved in the Terri Schiavo case and also for the hearings on steroid use in Major League Baseball. With all due respect, NEITHER of them is a major issue of national concern.

Meanwhile, in the same week, the story that the second half of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report on intelligence failures relating to invading Iraq has apparently been cancelled has gotten very little press or notice. The second half of the report was to evaluate whether or not the Bush Administration intentionally misrepresented or misinterpreted the information to increase support for the invasion of Iraq -- you know, a question that one or two Americans might be interested in. Why cancel the report? Well, let's let Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas explain the rationale: "To go through that exercise, it seems to me, in a postelection environment, we didn't see how we could do that and achieve any possible progress," he said. "I think everybody pretty well gets it."

Seriously -- what the hell is going on? Is Congress TRYING to make itself irrelevant, or is it really just full of clueless people?

 

[Incognito]

Bill Frist, Dennis Hastert, Tom DeLay.

Enough said.

 

[Fragamemnon]

Denny the Hutt (aka Fat Hastert), Cat-Killer, and the Bugman from Sugarland.

I mean, we are ignoring:

1) Government-supplied propaganda to news agencies, complete with accompanying scripts, without requiring disclosure to the public.
2) A complete whitewash report on the torture scandal.
3) The complete lack of an operating ethics committee in the House of Representatives.
4) The effective decomissioning of Amtrak (IMPORTANT IN THE NORTHEAST).
5) The nomination of literally the worst person possible for the World Bank in Paul Wolfowitz.
6) Setting the precedent for the rape and pillage of public land for natural resources.

Instead, they cover baseball drug abuse and trying to keep a woman already effectively dead from dying.

And the press?

MICHAEL JACKSON, PARIS HILTON, ROBERT BLAKE, MARTHA STEWART, MARTHA STEWART, ROBERT BLAKE, MICHAEL JACKSON, MICHAEL JACKSON, PARIS HILTON.

Once you lose the press and their ability to keep the government in check, democracy simply cannot fuction in today's society. It's impossible.

 

[Incognito]

I don't even want to think about what the media would be covering had Kerry won the presidency with a Republican-controlled House and Senate.

"FOX NEWS ALERT: KERRY REACHES OUT TO FRANCE -- FRIEND OR FOE?"

"FOX NEWS ALERT: KERRY VETOES ANWR DRILLING BILL. WILL REMAIN DEPENDENT ON MIDDLE EAST OIL."

"FOX NEWS ALERT: KERRY VOWS TO INACT FAIRNESS DOCTRINE. TRYING TO STIFLE DEBATE."

:rolleyes

 

[videogamer]

Where did this "cat-killer" nickname come from?

 

[Incognito]

Where did this "cat-killer" nickname come from?

Ha, you've never heard about the pro-lifer slaying garfields during his time in college so he could "experiment" on them?

Let me find some links..

http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20021231-071056-3546r

WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., is being asked by an animal advocacy group to support legislation for better animal treatment to make up for fraudulently adopting cats from animal shelters then experimenting on and killing them while he was a medical student.

A Dec. 31 letter from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals asked Frist to make amends by pressing for reforms that would replace old-style tests where animals are subjected to painful and sometimes deadly procedures with newer, more humane approaches. They also requested that he help fund research to find non-animal alternatives.

Frist acknowledged in a 1989 book that he routinely killed cats while an ambitious medical student at Harvard Medical School in the 1970s. His office said it had no record on how many cats died. Frist disclosed that he went to animal shelters and pretended to adopt the cats, telling shelter personnel he intended to keep them as pets. Instead he used them to sharpen his surgical skills, killing them in the process.

:lol

Here's the google linkage: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=bill+frist+killing+cats&btnG=Google+Search

 

[Triumph]

Jesus fucking Toadstool, folks. This isn't exactly NEW TACTICS from the fuckers in power. It works, and do you want to know why?

Because the majority of the people out there DON'T GIVE A FAT FLYING SHIT about the stuff that really matters. They ACTUALLY WANT to be diverted by the "dangers of steroids in baseball" or "Terri Shiavo's battle for life!". Yes. It's a hard truth, but the reason that they keep doing this is because that is what most of the fucking rubes out there want to hear about. 1 in 10 people in America are worth a damn, and that's something that becomes more eerily apparent every day to me...

But seriously, if you want to blame someone, blame the fucking limp-dicked, nancy boy excuse for a media that we have. Those fuckers are going up against the wall, and maybe even BEFORE the revolution comes.

Alright, got to go and get paid now, boys. Keep up the good fight.

 

[Fresh Prince]

The press gives the people what they want. Like it or not alot of people don't wanted to be concerned about politics. They'd rather latch onto water cooler shit.
If they'd want political news they'd use the internet.
IMO

 

[videogamer]

Frist disclosed that he went to animal shelters and pretended to adopt the cats, telling shelter personnel he intended to keep them as pets. Instead he used them to sharpen his surgical skills, killing them in the process.

What a tard. Either the laboratory animal research regulations didn't exist back then or he was willfully breaking the law.

Oh yeah, and the "pretending to adopt the cats" part seems perfect for him.

 

[ge-man]

I expressed the same concern in the Schiavo thread. There's a lot of shit going on Capitol Hill that should be reported and debated, but our attention is being pulled by shit that's unimportant.

This is the reason why I no longer get my news from mainstream sources. This is the kind of stuff they need to be jumping on--I could fucking care less about Jacko or Blake or roided baseball players.

 

[Agent Icebeezy]

I expressed the same concern in the Schiavo thread. There's a lot of shit going on Capitol Hill that should be reported and debated, but our attention is being pulled by shit that's unimportant.

This is the reason why I no longer get my news from mainstream sources. This is the kind of stuff they need to be jumping on--I could fucking care less about Jacko or Blake or roided baseball players.

They talk about more than just baseball on the Hill. C-Span and ESPN wants ratings, so they are there.

 

[ge-man]

They talk about more than just baseball on the Hill. C-Span and ESPN wants ratings, so they are there.

I understand that, that's why I'm disappointed in the media. I wish that more attention would be paid to stuff of interests--they're only helping to further the downard spiral this country is in by this "news as entertainment" approach.

 

[Lathentar]

1 in 10 people in America are worth a damn, and that's something that becomes more eerily apparent every day to me...

1 in 10 people are worth a damn anywhere you go.

 

[MetatronM]

Earlier this week, when they were discussing Scott Peterson being sentenced to death, one of the reporters referred to that day as "an important date in the legal history of California."

This was one day after a California justice declared that legislation banning gay marriage was unconstitutional.

 

[Teddman]

Watching the baseball hearings was so aggravating. The majority of the panel members just wanted to stump on the issue to get themselves national TV time, future speech fodder on the steroid issue ("I testified at the MLB steroid hearings and condemned drug abuse that endangers our kids!"), and another bullet point for their reelection campaign. Most of them had a long statement with a weak question to justify their hot air at the end.

I particularly remember one black woman who blasted steroid use and finished up, "Anyone want to comment on that? Just had to get it off my chest." And another lady went off with a prepared speech and then asked some question that was so meandering, Kurt Schilling replied, "I'm sorry, what was the question again?" to laughter from the audience.

Oh yeah, let's not forget the hispanic congressman who chose to only address Canseco and Palmiero at the end, talking about the dangers steroids pose to specifially latino youth (I think this was the last question asked). A naked attempt to shore up his electorate base.