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number 76 for 10-24-05:
The Lion and the Lamb
Okay. So the media isn't so bright. This picture makes that obvious. It does indeed say "Divisional divide." I didn't photoshop that. The media fails because we don't hold them to integrity standards, and yet we don't flip them shit when they don't dig and expose the truths that we need as a society. All justified.
Some would argue that when the eventual case of the media actually trying to do its job rolls around, we owe them a thanks and a pat on the back. I think the mere fact that it's unique instead of common makes it something we should smack them in the head for, until it's a consistent and normative state.
What's even worse, though, is when the media digs, tries to do something right, and instead causes more problems than it solves. Like for instance last week, where a riot that erupted because people didn't just ignore the moronic KKK march that occurred in their town, but instead assaulted and threw rocks at people (even idiots) expressing their freedom of speech.
Cue the article that was sent to me from three different people and show to me in person by another, about the two little white girls who are blond, blue-eyed, and evoke the Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen wholesomeness (?) that we all know and love (?)?
ABC, it would seem, did an expose on two girls who, because their parents are Nazi white power enthusiasts, pushed them into a singing career at a young age, and now they're really big hits among the American Nazi community for the same reason young white girls are popular in the regular American community. Because we don't value artistic integrity, all we care about is the illusion of the elite. My guess is that these girls would succeed even if their music was about "boyz", simply by virtue of the fact that they're young and blonde.
My opinion is that little girls, if they're singing about Nazi youth or fucking mascara, should not be the focus of our attention. There are adults who have been working for forty years at their craft displaced by the Clay Aikens and Britney Spears of the world, with their pre-written arbitrary sadness and euphoria in a can.
The great tragedy of this pair is the fact that they're supposedly horrific because they're talking about Nazi beliefs.
Well, hey. Okay. Say they're assholes. Like me, write a little one page ditty where you say, "Hey, look. Kids who their parents made to look like Nazis. How horrible."
Instead, ABC, with their infinite foresight and sensationalism, instead do an article on the twins that has three separate pages of information, the point of view of the parents, and pseudo sexual pictures of the two luxuriating about, resulting in, that's right, giving the dumb fucks a bunch of attention and likely a ton of record sales.
So they tried to do the responsible thing by exposing them, but by making them seem human, they've created a sympathetic ear for Nazis.
I ask you, is it better that this article was written and now these kids have attention, or would it have been better to ignore them and confront a real problem, like the gap between accountability and trust in the current administration, and all administrations since WW2?
You know my answer.
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Consider that this story gets 1,000 words (I checked) on ABC.COM, one of the three big networks considered by the FCC to be the most regulated and integral to the stated and purported mission of wholesome and publicly beneficial works. Furthermore, ABC continues to promote fear with articles such as the following, which encourages us to turn our houses into a fortress to avoid crime instead of addressing the reason why crime is so rampant in this country:
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And as you are considering that, realize that a story was just released indicating that 44 people, before being charged by the US government with any crimes, died in prison, many just after periods of prolonged torture, and it only rates 500 words on Breitbart, a horrible conservative news source with little to offer save the occasional tag like this that otherwise wouldn't have hit my eyes at all.
This is of a group of over 100 who have died in US custody since the war on terror began, 44 of whom died under suspect causes, and 21 of whom, it has indicated, were the victims of direct homicide by US military forces, all without any repercussions of yet.
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But hey...what we need to be afraid of is two white girls named Lamb and Lynx, right? I say we have bigger fish to fry and we should stop giving these assholes attention.