The New York Times has taken over the government.

“Forgive me, I know this is pretty elementary stuff — but it’s the kind of elementary context that sometimes gets lost on morons who don’t work for the New York Times, especially the knuckledraggers and mouth breathers who vote for Republicans,” said Keller. “And while we hesitate to preempt the role of legislators and courts, and ultimately the electorate, we just feel … well, that we’re smarter.”

“This is just, like, so totally awesome and cool,” said shadow Vice President Maureen Dowd.

I just can’t say how incredibly depressed the action of the LAT and NYT have left me lately. I haven’t even been able to bring myself to blog about it. This satirical article was all that lifted the gloom long enough to let me write this rant. It’s just common fucking damn sense that you don’t go blabbing about secure programs and troop deployments, but these jackasses would have published the details of every convoy leaving New York in WWII. They just do not get it.

They belong in jail.

I mean, I called them “AlQueda’s Intelligence Bureau” a few days ago but it was meant to be satire, not reality. Are they really working for the enemy or are they that damned stupid?

And the caller on Chris Baker’s ‘ show yesterday made me so damn mad I had to stop listening. I don’t remember if it was “David” or the guy after him. The publication was justified in his view because we don’t know that they’re not snooping in our financial records! A head totally empty of facts and conclusions; he was simply convinced that our government had to be evil because it had power. Well, excuse-fucking-me, I wasn’t aware that even the constitution required the goverment to hand the details of every spy operation over to each citizen, so we could judge for ourselves that it wouldn’t “infringe on our civil liberties,” nor that any one of us, whether intelligence analyst, civil servant, or newspaper editor, could decide on our own to go spreading those details all over the world.

Power? Baker’s caller needed to Iraq and place himself squarely in front of the jihadists who cut off people’s heads and talk to them about power. He’d quickly find out why Mao said, “Power comes from the barrel of a gun.” What a sad product of our indoctrination educational centers.

A century ago, Hearst newspapers tried, and succeeded, in starting the Spanish-American war just to win a circulation battle. Now they’re trying to lose us a war for much “higher minded principles.”

I hope Australia will be accepting immigrants after the fall of Rome….