So my friend calls and tells me that there's an 11:00pm President speech. Okay. So? SO! What on earth does this mean? Are we going to war again? It's 11:00pm! Oh. Is that abnormal? I guess, but that's the time the news comes on anyway. What do I know? My normal day ends at 1am and begins at 6am? If Pres. Obama was trying to usurp media speculation, why on earth did he take almost an hour to come on and make us listen to all kinds of media speculation in the interim? Journalists are suppose to be concerned about credibility. They tell us that he's going to announce that Bin Laden was captured, then dead? How? They don't know. Then they have these other journalists speculating on what this means for Terrorism. Uh? What? How about nothing? It took us 10 years to find him, do they think he hasn't had Al Quaida cronies running everything while he's been hiding in caves anyway? The dude is OLD! They're the ones who report to us that other terrorists have been running his show for quite some time, AND...is Al Quaida the only terrorist organization? Hell NO! One dumb ass journalist said that this will mean a complete revision of Afganistan's foreign policy now. WTF? American's aren't ignorant enough? This means nothing to Afganistan, they've got terrorists running amok over there. Taliban anyone?! Bin Laden is some hysterical nostalgic capture/kill for American's only, and well, it's significant only because of what he did to us. BUT, it doesn't change ANYTHING! If anything, we have to look out for revenge type missions now.
What I hate is media hype, speculation, and spin. I hate Fox News because it distorts crap and glorifies ignorant religious-based superiority and closemindedness. I hate the three major networks because they speculate and try to spin things to the other extreme. All of it's nonsense. It is what it is. America sought it's vendetta, and after ten years, a lot more lives have been lost, and one leader is dead, who "master minded" a horrific attack on the U.S. Okay. The cronies who carried it out died along with their victims. Chalk it up as a "V" for the U.S. then. But, no one really wins, terrorism is still running rampant. It doesn't change anything. Perspective, people, perspective.
No more hype, I can't stand it....wish their was a non-bias news source who didn't over dramatize and magnify things to hysterical levels of hype based on circumstancial opinions of people who got their degree in journalism, not foreign affairs. When that was exhausted (before President Obama had still come on) they turned their focus to speculation about how the world would react. Nothing more credibly solid than speculation about speculating...on a global level. Enough already.
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