Just a quick bit of anger today, before I go out and enjoy this most wonderful day. I was down in Portland the other afternoon picking up a truck cap. Thanks Will and Lindsay. Osama bin Forgotten. Stopped for a beer at that fake Irish joint called Ri Ra. Hit the highway heading north and tuned the radio to 100.3 fm. No, not KIT out of Bangor, but the other one - HEB out of Portsmouth.
So these douche bags are on there talking, two DJ's with douche bag fake redneck accents. So I assume that the skit is a joke or something. Bring the troops home. Not true, they're going over real news about the world, including Nascar and basketball, etc. Domestic news in the nasally voice, but it's all real stuff that's really happening. Then they get to the global front and I shit you not:
"It looks like Marines are to blame for the deaths of 12 civilians in Iraq. Can I just say this? War is hell. I don't blame those guys for doing what they're doing over there, even if it's killing innocent civilians."
Fuck me, I almost decapitated a tree. FCC tells me that I can't say tits on the radio, but that jackass can say that? I'm all for free speech, tempered by decency. That being said, Fuck Clear Channel in the ass with rusty meat hook.
2 comments:
What is it that really bothers you?--people being killed ("innocent" or civilian or what--does it matter?), or this poser-hillbilly's rationalization process?
Interesting, i may need to blog this to explore fully. In Brief: needless death bothers me, especially needless human death. We all know i'm not a bleeding heart softie. However, on the death scale, civilian death is worse than military death. Like that pregant woman and her cousin that got shot by our troops 3 days ago. Not cool. Basically, our military is an extension of our government. I object to our governemnt killing people because the government is supposed to be me ( in the collective ... "us") and i object to me killing people.
Furthermore, i find it tasteless to present such things on the radio, especially in a "news" format. I don't object to someone's right to say that, just that they actually would.
Post a Comment