Today's post comes to you at the behest of Ms. Muse. In case you haven't guessed, she takes her part time R17 job quite seriously. And after reading last week's post about the failure and humiliation of CNN, which is now distinctively right wing media, she urged me to to do a follow up -- a scathing piece regarding the Media (with a Capital M) writ large.
I pushed back and said I don't have the journalistic wherewithal to tackle a story that is much bigger than myself. Hell, I don't even know if I used the phrase "writ large" in the previous paragraph, the correct way.
As I have admitted quite freely and numerously, I'm an intellectual midget.
Is that word even acceptable?
Sometimes I actually crush Jeopardy and can keep up with the Tournament of Champion contestants. And other times I'm so far in the imaginary red, I need to be escorted from the stage before they commence with Final Jeopardy.
In short, I know what I don't know.
But all that was before the South Park airing of the season premiere in which Donald Trump's micro-penis played an unusually (and ironic) large part and was referenced many, many, many times.
And that came in light of the huge merger between SkyPrance, owned by David Ellison (son of TechoTool Billionaire Larry Ellison and Paramount+, owned by Shari Redstone, billionaire daughter of Sumner Redstone. Somehow having billions of dollars is just not enough.
It was also before Paramount cancelled my beloved Stephen Colbert and the Late Show. All in deference to the Mad King/Pedophile who sits behind the Resolute Desk.
OK, I do know a little about all this. For instance I know that CBS paid the backstage pageant peeper $16 million and extorted another $20 million worth of free airtime on the former Tiffany Network, so he and the GOP could push their bullshittery on unsuspecting and terminally uninformed MAGATS.
It's nothing short of EXTORTION -- if he can use unnecessary All Caps, so can I -- but it's not criminal because, as Speaker of the House Mike "Kneepads" Johnson puts it, "It's all being done out in the open."
Not dissimilar to, "Come on guys, just find me 11,780 votes."
As I said last week, we are not only losing our Democracy, we are losing our grasp on anything that resembles Truth.
But it's not all doom and gloom and fascist state media. Last week I had predicted this whole Epstein affair would be gathering dust, supplanted by some new White House douchebaggery. I was wrong. This story has legs, all of them attached to underage girls who were raped by unapologetic pedophiles.
There can be no doubt that the "fat orange jobby" is in the files. Along with other high profile names. Our taxpayer dollars were used to investigate the sordidness and our taxpayer dollars should be used to prosecute all the Pigs that were named.
All of them.
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