Punk'd: You Have A Bomb and Will Be Executed! Ha Ha! Just Kidding!
A new reality show in Iraq features "police" stopping celebrities at checkpoints where they find "bombs" in the cars, only to reveal, after the accused freak out, that they were just kidding. Surprise! You're on Candid Camera! Only this time it's called "Put Him in Camp Bucca," an unfunny U.S.-built prison! But ha ha anyway! Public reaction to the show has been mixed. Is this what happens when people have been at war too long?
"I hope that your channel does not dance on the wounds of the Iraqi people."
Keeping It Truthy
Nation, America is at a crossroad. Truthiness is at an all-time low, with our citizens increasingly "shackled, imprisoned, entombed" by "facts." A movement is abroad in this fine if tilting-into-Socialism land for Stephen Colbert to save us by leading a "Restoring Truthiness Rally." Spread the healing word.
"What have we lost, America? Our way, our values, our guiding light, and possibly, if she doesn't turn up at the back door soon, our cat... Let's move out of the blinding glare of facts and truth, and curl up together in the dark, cozy, and disturbingly moist comfort of truthiness."
AP Challenges Obama: It's Not Over Till It's Over
Seven blood-and-lie-filled years after much of the media mindlessly mouthed the Bush line on Iraq, the AP has issued a memo to reporters warning it not to do the same with Obama. Citing the presence of 50,000 U.S. forces who "may well fire and be fire on," AP editor Tom Kent questions Obama's assertion the war is "over."
"Combat in Iraq is not over, and we should not uncritically repeat suggestions that it is, even if they come from senior officials. The situation on the ground in Iraq is no different today than it has been for some months."
Watering the Tree of Liberty, Hyperbole and Groundless Sexual Rumors
Armed with $700,000, 70,000 members and a high-end TV studio, Tea Party operative and profiteer Eric Odom has launched Liberty.com, a right-wing political and financial power that aims to rival MoveOn.org's "loony libs." See, if you can stand it, their rants about "illegals," "flat out treason," "Whorehouse Harry," GOP challengers rumored to be having gay affairs and other high-minded, well-funded endeavors.
Walmart: Black People and Books All Look the Same
From Ohio, a look at the segregated bookshelves at Walmart, where (black) romance novels and (black) sports books sit next to the autobiography of our (half-black) president. Whoah: Yet another reason not to shop there.
A Little Bit Of Fact
Last night Keith Olbermann and Jeremy Scahill offered the "thanks" to George Bush on Iraq that all these neo-con revisionists have been clamoring for. Scathing.
"These people want to post some kind of false flag of victory on the corpses of all who have died in Iraq because of their decisions... They shouldn't be able to leave their houses without being confronted with the death and destruction their lies caused."
Teddy Bear Jihad
Seeking to critique Israel, a group of hapless Algerian hackers launched a cyber attack on the website of Belvoir Castle - apparently mistaking it for Israel's Belvoir Fortress. The castle holds garden tours and an annual teddy bears' picnic. God knows there is cause to rage against Israel. But jeez, let's do our homework, and leave the bears out of it.
Oh The Places You'll Go, But Not Without Your RFID Electronic Tracking Chip
Getting downright Orwellian, a California preschool has decided to track its small charges with electronic chips in their shirts to monitor where they are, if they're eating and other childhood imponderables that actual human beings once kept tabs on. Pesky opponents worry about the loss of privacy and dignity in treating children like livestock, but the Feds funded the $50,000 project so it must be a good idea.
"Now, when we feed the children lunch we just have to push a button and it's done."
