THE MEDIA EDITION: ISSUE 72, VOLUME 102
MAGICAL REALISM
by Malik Isasis
Let’s forget that the Democratic Party are pussies, and can’t get emotionally or politically beyond their post traumatic loop caused by a two decades long ass beatin’ by the Republicans. Something is afoot. The corporate media is on a rehabilitation program for the Republican Party, so to bring them back into power. Twenty years of deregulation, wars, occupations, systemic corruption and inept governance and these limp dicks continue to be inflated by the corporate media.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney was given the national stage on May 21, 2009, after Obama’s National Security speech to vomit his bile onto the airwaves, but this is nothing new. Since the Democrats swept into the White House and Congress, Dick Cheney has emerged from his dark lair to piss his bitter piss, and mock the truth along the way. The only thing authentic about this man is his scorn for those who do not share his delusion. Cheney is what is flushed down the toilet, but even after eight years of irrefutable failure, the corporate Dr. Frankenstein that is the media keeps him around to scare the natives.
Tales from the Darkside
During the mid 80s—1984 through 1988 to be exact, a television series “Tales from the Darkside” supplanted “The Twightlight Zone” in my household. At the age of 11, I watched the series religiously. Interestingly enough, I only remember one episode. The episode was “A Case of the Stubborns,” season 1, episode 9. The story opens with the death of Grandpa Tolliver in his bed. His daughter and grandson grieve in the kitchen, as they believe that Grandpa Tolliver has died in his sleep. However, grandpa walks into the kitchen expecting breakfast. As you can imagine, daughter and grandson are shocked. Grandpa Tolliver is a sassy old man and asks what are all the water works are about. Mother and son stay quiet.
Grandson, played by a young Christian Slater, sets out to prove to Grandpa Tolliver that he has died. Grandson throughout the episode offers evidence that Grandpa Tolliver, is indeed, dead. However, grandpa keeps denying it, even as rigor mortis sets in, and flies start to follow him. Grandpa denial is thick. He is able to justify everything. Grandpa Tolliver continues to deny his own death, even as his flesh rots before him.
A couple of days later while sitting on the porch in his rocking chair in the company of his grandson, grandpa sneezes into his handkerchief. It is in this moment, that Grandpa Tolliver can no longer deny his death. The camera stays fixed on his traumatized grandson. Grandpa Tolliver finally states that maybe it's time that he goes to lie down and rest. He sets the handkerchief down on the table and gets up and walks into the house. The camera cuts to the handkerchief, and in it, Grandpa Tolliver’s nose. He sneezed it right off.
The scene although disturbingly funny is a poignant moment in the episode because it is when Grandpa Tolliver finally accepts that he has died. Dick Cheney, that inglorious bastard is Grandpa Tolliver, refusing to accept reality of the twisted, bloody and petulant reality that he and Bush created. When former Prime Minister Tony Blair stated that Great Britain would be pulling their troops out of the Iraq theatre, Cheney without missing a beat said:
“I look at it and see it is actually an affirmation that there are parts of Iraq where things are going pretty well,” Cheney said. He said he’d talked recently with a friend who drove seven hours from Baghdad to Basra and “found the situation dramatically improved from a year or so ago, sort of validated the British view they had made progress in southern Iraq and that they can therefore reduce their force levels.”
What is interesting about Dick Cheney is the extent of his lies—he’s pathological, and if questioned about them, he will out right deny it-- even if there is video or audio to play the lie back to him. Never in my young life, have I witness such a politician with so much contempt for government, and the governed. Cheney’s contempt is no doubt fueled by a sense of profound entitlement, more importantly, his rightwing ideology-- the new religion amongst the Republican set. Cheney is not delusional though, it would be much easier to accept, if he were. No, Cheney is simply a sociopath, whose manifestations of antipathy and lack of conscience nests neatly in the guise of national security.
Cheney, the Prince of Darkness, uses the media to wipe his crusty ass. One news organization that happily massages Cheney’s fecal matter into their skin is Fox News. Fox News, and its derivatives have allowed themselves to be used as an envoy for delivering an infection and messages of destruction—for instance, continuing to paint Iran as a nuclear threat. Like Grandpa Tolliver, the corporate media is slow to understand the signs of death, the death of a superpower—the devalued dollar, the debt, broken diplomacy, and two brutal Occupation of two sovereign nations.
MAGICAL REALISM
by Malik Isasis
Let’s forget that the Democratic Party are pussies, and can’t get emotionally or politically beyond their post traumatic loop caused by a two decades long ass beatin’ by the Republicans. Something is afoot. The corporate media is on a rehabilitation program for the Republican Party, so to bring them back into power. Twenty years of deregulation, wars, occupations, systemic corruption and inept governance and these limp dicks continue to be inflated by the corporate media.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney was given the national stage on May 21, 2009, after Obama’s National Security speech to vomit his bile onto the airwaves, but this is nothing new. Since the Democrats swept into the White House and Congress, Dick Cheney has emerged from his dark lair to piss his bitter piss, and mock the truth along the way. The only thing authentic about this man is his scorn for those who do not share his delusion. Cheney is what is flushed down the toilet, but even after eight years of irrefutable failure, the corporate Dr. Frankenstein that is the media keeps him around to scare the natives.
Tales from the Darkside
During the mid 80s—1984 through 1988 to be exact, a television series “Tales from the Darkside” supplanted “The Twightlight Zone” in my household. At the age of 11, I watched the series religiously. Interestingly enough, I only remember one episode. The episode was “A Case of the Stubborns,” season 1, episode 9. The story opens with the death of Grandpa Tolliver in his bed. His daughter and grandson grieve in the kitchen, as they believe that Grandpa Tolliver has died in his sleep. However, grandpa walks into the kitchen expecting breakfast. As you can imagine, daughter and grandson are shocked. Grandpa Tolliver is a sassy old man and asks what are all the water works are about. Mother and son stay quiet.
Grandson, played by a young Christian Slater, sets out to prove to Grandpa Tolliver that he has died. Grandson throughout the episode offers evidence that Grandpa Tolliver, is indeed, dead. However, grandpa keeps denying it, even as rigor mortis sets in, and flies start to follow him. Grandpa denial is thick. He is able to justify everything. Grandpa Tolliver continues to deny his own death, even as his flesh rots before him.
A couple of days later while sitting on the porch in his rocking chair in the company of his grandson, grandpa sneezes into his handkerchief. It is in this moment, that Grandpa Tolliver can no longer deny his death. The camera stays fixed on his traumatized grandson. Grandpa Tolliver finally states that maybe it's time that he goes to lie down and rest. He sets the handkerchief down on the table and gets up and walks into the house. The camera cuts to the handkerchief, and in it, Grandpa Tolliver’s nose. He sneezed it right off.
The scene although disturbingly funny is a poignant moment in the episode because it is when Grandpa Tolliver finally accepts that he has died. Dick Cheney, that inglorious bastard is Grandpa Tolliver, refusing to accept reality of the twisted, bloody and petulant reality that he and Bush created. When former Prime Minister Tony Blair stated that Great Britain would be pulling their troops out of the Iraq theatre, Cheney without missing a beat said:
“I look at it and see it is actually an affirmation that there are parts of Iraq where things are going pretty well,” Cheney said. He said he’d talked recently with a friend who drove seven hours from Baghdad to Basra and “found the situation dramatically improved from a year or so ago, sort of validated the British view they had made progress in southern Iraq and that they can therefore reduce their force levels.”
What is interesting about Dick Cheney is the extent of his lies—he’s pathological, and if questioned about them, he will out right deny it-- even if there is video or audio to play the lie back to him. Never in my young life, have I witness such a politician with so much contempt for government, and the governed. Cheney’s contempt is no doubt fueled by a sense of profound entitlement, more importantly, his rightwing ideology-- the new religion amongst the Republican set. Cheney is not delusional though, it would be much easier to accept, if he were. No, Cheney is simply a sociopath, whose manifestations of antipathy and lack of conscience nests neatly in the guise of national security.
Cheney, the Prince of Darkness, uses the media to wipe his crusty ass. One news organization that happily massages Cheney’s fecal matter into their skin is Fox News. Fox News, and its derivatives have allowed themselves to be used as an envoy for delivering an infection and messages of destruction—for instance, continuing to paint Iran as a nuclear threat. Like Grandpa Tolliver, the corporate media is slow to understand the signs of death, the death of a superpower—the devalued dollar, the debt, broken diplomacy, and two brutal Occupation of two sovereign nations.
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