So I wrote this diary…Yeah. Right. Quailgate REALLY worked!!!
And as usual here when I write something that has some real substance, it tanked.
No surprise.
And then I get this reply from sjct about how I should laugh along with the chorus.
“…NOTHING IS GOING TO CHANGE on the broader stage of our impending imperial collapse. But, one of the directors, back stage, tripped and fell thru the curtain and distracted the audience from the main show. Relax and laugh with the rest of us.”
And about how “Sometimes you don’t need an elephant gun to stop a rampaging beast, you just need a silly little mouse.”
About Chris Matthews interviewing Paul Hackett and Newsweak (ALWAYS a day late and a dollar short…), covering Cheney and his popgun.
My response continues below.
CHRIS MATTHEWS!!!???
NEWSWEAK!!!???
Please!!!
Matthews had Hackett on because the story diminishes the standing of the Democratic Party.
Deservedly, but that’s not Matthews’ aim.
His AIM is to be standing when the media curtain comes down.
And ratings do that. As do anti-Dem stories that earn him credits with Rove, Inc.
Tomorrow…he’ll be all over Mary Matalin about how great SHE is.
An equal opportunity hustler.
And Newsweak has already proven itself to be a frontrunner in ALL things. Should BushCo run some tall tale down the pike tomorrow about how Iran is planning on unleashing bird flu in flocks of passenger pigeons throughout North America and must be stopped now “BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE!!!”, there Newsweak would be (along with the rest of the media) flapping their clipped wings in full fledged panic, and the Cheney story would (also deservedly) be scrubbed and never again rear its ugly head except as some trivia question to be asked in the caves after the Apocalypse is over.
And even it the story DID “destroy Cheney’s political power”…why then they’d just run in another producer to oversee this little game show and its lame host George Butch. Who is due to be replaced at the end of next season anyyway…his contract runs out in 2008…by John McCain. (See my recent diary BREAKING: McCain to be next RePresident. for more on that.)
Ford?
If Ford had been actively engaged in ending civilization as we know it…which includes the TOTAL control of the media…he would not have BEEN seen as a stumbling fool, and Chevy Chase would have ended up about as effective as the so-called left wing comics today. Which is to say…approximately 52% of the population FOR BushCo, 48% against.
No matter WHAT they do.
Four percent is a majority. They control the media, and thus they control that 52% of the people who are easily hypnotized into being Ratpubs. PLUS the other 40% or so who are equally easily hypnotized but who have been encouraged to root for the so-called “other” side so it looks like there is really a game on.
The Rats win.
Big time.
Untiil they REALLY lose.
Not by being foolish, drunken, amateur hunters.
But by completely blowing this country, its economy and its culture out of the water.
Sorry, sjct.
That’s the way I see it.
“Relax and laugh with the rest of us”?
I think not.
We are talking about bloody death here.
Part of the impotence of the left IS this “laughter”.
Laughter which does NOT mean “ha ha”.
It means “I give up.”
Well…I do not.
“Sometimes you don’t need an elephant gun to stop a rampaging beast, you just need a silly little mouse”?
Bullshit.
Give ANY successful elephant hunter a choice between those two weapons and ask him upon which one he would stake HIS ass.
You are dreaming.
And IN that dream…you are already defeated.
Wake the fuck up.
AG
P.S. “You can’t judge news by google?”
MORE bullshit.
What hits the front page at Google News is EXACTLY what is being spun. And what is being spun IS the news. The “New Reality” of the day is whatever that evil genius Dr. Rover…a PERFECT James Bond villain, he could play himself in the movie….hands out on a daily basis.
From the runup to the invasion of Iraq right on through the 2004 election theft, Gannnon/Guckert, the Plame thing, the Downing Street papers, Galloway’s appearance before the Senate and all the OTHER Ghosts of Christmases Past upon which the weak-minnded left have hung their shallow hopes…all you fools have to do is click away from your masturbatory dream blogs for a minute and check out what Google is featuring to know the truth of the matter.
But…”You can’t HANDLE the truth!!!”
The single most iconic statement to come out of Hollywood in 30 years.
So…
Dream on.
Or…WAKE THE FUCK UP!!!
Your choice. bunky.
Your choice.
(Or IS it…???)
I must admit.
I am not sure why I keep trying to get through to you.
Just stubborn, I guess.
Wake up.
Or die.
AG
I’m not sure why you keep publically insulting people Arthur and I’m one of your more consistent readers and recommenders. I think you’re wrong about your best stuff tanking. I’m sure a quick search will show some fairly well recommended diaries. But this personal provocation doesn’t work and imo serves only to alienate yourself from otherwise impressed and equally pissed off and frustrated readers.
Impressed?
Supersoling…I don’t CARE if people are “impressed”. I only care that they begin to see the forest for the trees.
Nor am I “insulting” anyone.
Unless you find it insulting to be told the unallloyed truth of the matter. With no baby steps in between.
Why am I not more polite?
WE HAVEN’T GOT TIME TO BE “POLITE”.
Shit’s about to hit the fan, S.
You don’t say “Please, kind sir or madam…could you please ducK? Or maybe …turn off the fan?”
You yell “Get down, motherfucker!!! And somebody turn off that fucking fan!!!”
Which I am busily doing.
Sorry to bother y’all, but we are about a few months…a couple of years at MOST…away from our own little Kristallnacht. And they are going to come for you the same way they came for the Jews and dissenters in Germany.
BET on it.
You are ALL on the list if you have expressed sufficient outrage over what is going down.
ALL of you.
Imagine Nixon’s enemies list on cybersteroids.
Yup.
You wonder why they are stonewalling the whole “domestic spying” thing?
BEC AUSE IT IS HUGE!!!
Bigger than you can POSSIBLY imagine.
You know how your hard drive always seems to get all cluttered up even though you always start out with one that seems plenty big?
Well…imagine the biggest hard drives in the world.
getting all c luttered upo everuy couple of yyears. So they have to make a BIGGER one.
s
Make several, more than likely, that collect and sift info in way that makes Google look like child’s play.
You’re in it, baby.
You’re in there…
So…do not be insulted when I suggest that you “Wake the fuck up” from your media-induced comas in which you think that Tweety Biird and Newsweak are going to DO anything.
Because they are not.
And they will report upon your incarceration and eventual demise with the same wide–eyed and thorough seriousness that they now use to report upon Butch’s Liittle Pet Goat adventure and how bad the bad guys REALLY are over there in NeverNeverLand East.
Guantanamo is just the beginning.
Coming to YOUR neighborhood soon enough.
You bet your LIFE it is.
Wake the fuck up.
AG
and used lots of caps would that convince you that Hilary Clinton is not a secret revolutionary mole?
We shall see…
AG
sense.
YOU ARE ONE OF THE BEST WORD WRITERS ON HERE.
But Hilary is NOT nor has she ever been a revolutionary mole.
THIS IS A DELUSION YOU HAVE< ARTHUR!!!
A DELUSION
It is as much a delusion as the most airheaded idiotic yellow ribbon sporting SUV Driving forced breeding supporting crusade loving Arab hating imbecile has that God speaks through Bush.
HILARY IS JUST ANOTHER POLITICIAN
Like all the rest of them.
And if you are a devotee, that is your right. But if you are
YOU ARE NOT A DEVOTEE SHE WOULD WANT
YOU WOULD EMBARRASS HER!
YOU DO NOT EVEN SUPPORT THE WAR ON TERROR
At a time when all the politicians, of both furks, are rushing to rewrite White House press releases a bit and publishing the tweaked copy as their statements on what a great danger Iran is
YOU DO NOT EVEN BELIEVE WHITE HOUSE PRESS RELEASES!
WAKE UP!!!
Like I said…we shall see.
(We shall, you know…and soon.)
AG
If she is a revolutionary mole, let her give a sign of this.
All the woman did was prove by trial balloon that the medical treatment industry and its parasitic twin the insurance cartel are not inclined to forfeit their bulging pockets.
Can you at least explain why you have this belief?
If you are right, I who loathe jazz, will listen to an entire CD of it, and entire CD that you specify.
While eating sushi, which I also loathe. Or even gefilte fish.
IF HILARY IS A REVOLUTIONARY MOLE, I, DUCTAPEFATWA, PLEDGE TO EAT GEFILTE FISH.
So convince me, and make my Ukranian neighbor happy.
Someone once asked Fats waller to tell them what swing was.
He answered: “If you don’t know, I can”t tell you.”
If you hate sushi AND jazz…I won’t even TRY to tell you.
AG
P.S. I’ll give you the gefilte fish thing…
Why blame me for this?
I know what it is, I knew what it was, well, a long time ago.
I waited.
And eventually Little Richard became present.
And Otis Redding. Imagine Otis Redding singing a duet with Alan Fakir. Or Miss Abida Parveen.
So many things in heaven and earth Arthur. Now be a good Hamlet and tell me, what makes you think that Hilary is anything but a politician?
If you could only see how this Ukranian lady longs to see me eat gefilte fish, and only you can help her achieve this goal.
“If you could only see how this Ukranian lady longs to see me eat gefilte fish, and only you can help her achieve this goal. “
I am afraid that we are entering into uncharted waters here, and I am not going there.
“I did not eat gefilte fish with that woman.”
‘Nuf said.
AG
I remember when I was referred to as somebody called “Alice” when you resented the only response you got. Did you notice then how many people lept to my defense? Well pal, if you want to start in on sjct, it will be much more intense, she is beloved around here, and definitely not as stupid as you want to believe.
We all feel the passion and intensity that you do, and enjoy your method of expression, but the arrogant attitude gets pretty tiresome, and starts to feel like a personal attack. Makes me wonder why I bother to read.
If you ever have kids, or do now, I hope you don’t treat them with this kind of contempt.
love – a fellow wanker
Gawd, I’m blushing deep crimson.
I forgive poor Arthur. He’s desperate and terrified. He keeps screaming like there’s something we can all do to change the tide of history. All any of us can do is prepare to ride out the worst and keep working for the best. And, try to keep our sense of humor and maintain a sane perspective instead of lashing out at each other.
I’ll tell you something else, sjct.
I am neither terrified NOR desperate.
I keep “screaming” because there is something we can all do to change the tide of history.
But first we have to stop believing the mainstream media.
Which is why I called you out.
Stop believing any and all of it.
Ann Coulter right on through The Daily Show and Keith Olbermann.
NONE of it is “real”. And if it DOES dare to get real, it gets Peter Arnetted right on out the door.
We fall on the floor in paroxysms of puppy love when it deigns to scratch our bellies…usually for its own reasons…but the OTHER 98% of the time?
Fuggedaboudit!!!
Newsweek.
Give me a BREAK!!!
Try to keep a “sense of humor?”
I suuppose the partisans during WW II…and for that matter those EQUAL partisans who are fighting the U.S. in every nation of the Third World right now and HAVE been doing so since the mid-’50s at least…have a sort of “sense of humor”. The graveyard kind of humor that soldiers, the condemned and the oppressed eventually develop just to stay sane.
The familar ghetto laugh that does NOT mean “ha ha”.
But for someone who comfortably sits in his or her computer chair and writes about the good things that Tweety Bird and Newsweak are doing to say that we should “try to keep our sense of humor and maintain a sane perspective” is INSANE, as far as I am concerned.
Totally out there in NoNoLand.
Sorry…
That’s the way I see it.
Gone.
Trance state time.
Later…
AG
Oh well, back to my “masturbatory’ blog.
Having been one that your rath was bestowed upon I have to agree with Super. Arthur, you do write some really great stuff but I am not a child and do not want to be yelled at by you or anyone else.
I watched in horror to what Mathews and the wackjobs did to Hackett. No wonder he dropped out of the race. between the dems castrating him financially and the media “swiftboating” I sure as hell would hang up the hat too.
Arthur, please, we all need to vent/ rant from time to time and I love alot of your writings but cann you please try to not make it seem so personal?
Thanks anyway.
given the hellhole Americans so gladly endure these days. But it would have more impact if followed up by exactly what YOU are doing, and would have us do, that’s more effective than blog-gazing. I’m increasingly inclined to believe that blogging is more addiction than activism, that there’s far too much interest in the “power” of this new channel than in impacting the uberculture.
That said, blogworld is not the villain. At worst it is yet another face of the co-opted, lost “progressive” movement in this country. It is kinda like the poor crocuses that bloomed here in Chicago in January this year — it is not global warming, but a small, weak sign of that reality. It can be a rallying point, but you apparently expect bloggers to somehow run a revolution. Or is it just to pay more attention to you?
Anyway, like I said, let us know what it is that you’re doing for the revolution that’s working so well. Make the case, and I, for one, will walk away from blogworld and join your crusade. Until then, it’s hard to see the utility in screaming at the few remaining folks who still think at all amid the brain-poison rain showering down from the Emperor’s castle keep.
Youi are reading what I am doing.
About 10% of my effort.
The other 90% is cultural.
I am an artist.
That’s my gig.
So I am involved in keeping a light alive…a particular light, one that was invented in the ghettoes and barrios of this country under the worst possible conditions, a light that shone so fiercely that it illuminated the whole world.
American Art Music.
Call it what you will.
“Jazz”…a sexual term, originally, to “jass” someone. Nice.
“Salsa”…. “SALSA!!!???” Tito Puente would yell.
“Salsa TOMATE!!! This is not tomato sauce. It is MUSIC!!!”
“Why am I so black and blue?” asked Louis Armstrong.
“Black Brown and Beige” wrote Duke Ellington.
“Southern trees bear strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.” sang Billie Holiday.
“Jazz is dead” said Miles Davis.
“If you see the Buddha by the side of the road…kill him.” say the Zen masters.
“A Love Supreme”, Coltrane played.
“I am a devout musician”, said Charlie Parker.
Gil Evans didn’t say shit…he just wrote music directly from God’s ears to his, and thence to yours if you had the ears to hear.
And “Britney Spears has released yet ANOTHER masterpiece” say the MSM critics.
Including the immortal tracks:
1. Baby One More Time
2. (You Drive Me) Crazy
3. Sometimes
4. Soda Pop
5. Born to Make You Happy
6. From the Bottom of My Broken Heart
7. I Will Be There
8. I Will Still Love You
9. Thinkin’ About You
10. E-Mail My Heart
11. The Beat Goes On
SODA POP!!!???
Give me a break!!!
It’s an uphill battle, but a society without a culture is a shot society.
So THAT’S what I am doing.
What are YOU doing?
AG
But what are YOU doing politically, not professionally, not musically, cause Arthur you can play all the jazz in the world but I got news for you hon…WAKE THE FUCK UP!! It ain’t going to change the world, get the president incarcerated, impeached, the occupation of Iraq to end, Gitmo to be closed etc.
” [A ruler] must beware of changing to a new kind of music, for the change always involves far-reaching danger. Any alteration in the modes of music is always followed by alteration in the most fundamental laws of the state.”
“In order to take the spiritual temperature of an individual or society, one must mark the music.”
Plato/Socrates in “The Republic”.
The Greeks knew…
Music is a FORCE.
Allow the music of a culture to degenerate, and that culture degenerates.
Believe it.
As we can see today.
Substitute real music for the bullshit being played today as popular art and the society would change.
I am not arguing that the STYLES of one generation are necessarily bettter or worse than those of another.
Just the content.
Out of tune, in bad time, FULL of negativity, fakery and defeat on every level…our music is just like our culture. And it is not necessarily only a mirror of that culture, either. It goes both ways, this mirror.
I have only one real weapon to use…I am a musician. So it is with music that I fight.
Don’t mock it.
Consider well the music that happened in the prime age of America…say from the end of W.W. I through the death of JFK. It was largely a HEALTHY music. By that I mean that its message…its MUSICAL message…was one of expertise, of accomplishment at the highest level. And it moved people in positive ways. Positive directions.
Now…the opposite is true. Very simply put, the music to which our culture now operates is mostly made by incompetents running machines.
And its message is machine-like as well.
Resistance is futile.
Positive human emotion and achievement are futile.
Give up.
You are dogs.
We fight with what we have.
I have played with Mingus and Ellington and Machito and Basie and Sinatra and Tito Puente and Dizzy Gillespie and Lee Konitz and Celia Cruz and Gerry Mulligan and Bob Brookmeyer and Thad Jones. And with literally hundreds of their peers of whom even most jazz listeners know next to nothing. These people gave me their tools…their weapons…the ones that they used to literally revolutionize a culture.
And I am part of the resistance to what is now happenning.
Do not denigrate these efforts.
They are worth more than you understand.
AG
AG
When folks like Ramsey Clarke or Noam Chomsky or even anyone from Pacifica Radio start to leave the country I’ll get way, way worried. Right now no one is going anywhere.