so, it’s essentially a relief carving of actual events at the convention?

Wolf Blitzer then tells us that CNN is dedicated to covering more than just the speeches.  I assume in the same way that ESPN is dedicated to covering more than just the House of Commons by not fucking doing it at all.

CNN is dedicated, along with all the major TV news outlets, to providing bread and circuses Idiot America. It might actually have been better if they let the sports reporters cover the convention—at least they know how to stay focused on the game and aren’t afraid to call things as they see them (there’s a reason Olbermann is as good as he is).

When I read embarrassing statements like Wolfie’s, I’m so bloody glad I left the business.

PBS all the way, Jesse.  Even David Brooks is speaking a little bit of sense.

Black people have become Democrats first and whatever else afterward. The Democratic leadership, along with its leftist allies in Hollywood, on college campuses, in labor unions, in the education establishment and in the media, detests President Bush. Too many black people are dependent on the Democrats for handouts and racial preferences. Black politicians depend on the Bush haters for financial resources enabling them to gain office. Black civil rights organizations are beholden to liberal foundations. The bottom line of all of this is that he who pays the piper calls the tune and black people dance along.

Walter Williams

Black people have become Democrats first and whatever else afterward. The Democratic leadership, along with its leftist allies in Hollywood, on college campuses, in labor unions, in the education establishment and in the media, detests President Bush. Too many black people are dependent on the Democrats for handouts and racial preferences. Black politicians depend on the Bush haters for financial resources enabling them to gain office. Black civil rights organizations are beholden to liberal foundations. The bottom line of all of this is that he who pays the piper calls the tune and black people dance along.

In other words, black civil rights organizations are giving their support to people who give them the time of day, and not the back of their hand.

I don’t think you know too many black people, sir.

gwangung,

He’s quoting Walter Williams who, whatever else he might be, is black.

The Democratic leadership, along with its leftist allies in Hollywood, on college campuses, in labor unions, in the education establishment and in the media, detests President Bush.

Well what would you expect liberals and progressives in those sectors to think of an intellectually dishonest, proudly ignorant, anti-union buffoon who panders to Xtian fantasists?

Oh, wait, you’re the same guy who thought (or at least admiringly cut-n-pasted talk radio comments) that the Iraqis would greet American occupation forces with sweets and flowers. Silly question on my part.

Don’t want to be an American idiot.
Don’t want a nation under the new media
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mind fuck America.

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alien nation.
Where everything isn’t meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We’re not the ones who’re meant to follow.
For that’s enough to argue.

Well maybe I’m the faggot America.
I’m not a part of a redneck agenda.
Now everybody do the propaganda.
And sing along to the age of paranoia.

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alien nation.
Where everything isn’t meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We’re not the ones who’re meant to follow.
For that’s enough to argue.

Don’t want to be an American idiot.
One nation controlled by the media.
Information age of hysteria.
It’s calling out to idiot America.

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alien nation.
Where everything isn’t meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We’re not the ones who’re meant to follow.
For that’s enough to argue.

Ms. Kate,

If you haven’t done so already, let me take my new-found ability to hyperlink here to suggest you read Charle’s Pierce’s Esquire piece, “Greetings from Idiot America”.

I’d also recommend it to BobK, but he’d probably find the descriptions a little too close for comfort.

Wolf Blitzer then tells us that CNN is dedicated to covering more than just the speeches.

Silly Jesse. The beard and the Beardy Bunch (and the gang on MSNBC and Faux News) haven’t been flown over to Denver just to watch.

In November, they’re also going to appoint the electoral voters on behalf of twelve states.

I’m already psyching myself up to explain to my dad (whose house I’ll be eating dinner and watching Obama’s speech at tomorrow) why we need to watch it on C-SPAN.  He’s an MSNBC diehard.  I’m also happy I have a nonstop flight tomorrow that leaves at 7AM, far too early for the usual airport gate CNN blare, I hope.  Or at least they’ll be talking about light and easy morning show human interest stories.

Auguste:

He’s quoting Walter Williams who, whatever else he might be, is black.

From what I can tell, Williams is just another navel-gazing fantasist and militant solipsist passing himself off as an economist. There’s another quote by him on his Wikipedia page that seems to point to a rather tenuous grasp of world history, too. He also, like Tony Snow, seems to think that racism just isn’t that big of a deal anymore, which only proves that being an over-privileged, out-of-touch schmuck isn’t overly dependent on skin color.

Can I just say that ESPN covering Parliament would be twelve kinds of awesome? “Next on ESPN, the Treasury Select Comittee hearing on making changes to operational PFI projects, brought to you by Mountain Dew”

Oppo:

Don’t hope too much, it’s always on here in Boston, I took a flight out of Logan to Columbus, OH, a couple of weeks ago at 8:30 in the morning, I was there by 7, and CNN was on TV.  I really don’t think Airports get any other channels.  But I wish you luck in avoiding CNN before your flight, no one should have to suffer through Airport security to then be faced with that drivel that early in the morning.

Could be worse—O’Hare seemed to have Fox News on 24/7.

Ginger, I would SOOOOOO watch that.

Just imagine how CNN would have covered the “I Have a Dream” speech...