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Jul. 11th, 2005 09:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bobcatmoranWent out today with The Conservative from the Resource Management team. This meant listening to Rush Limbaugh on the two-hour drive to the site we were working at and during lunch. I don't get how he's so popular. It's not the fact that I disagree with most of what he says, it's that he's just plain annoying. He's smarmy and repetitive--I think he only actually had three different things to say during the entire time I was listening, and one of them was, "I am twenty times smarter than all those idiot liberals out there!" I shudder to think that some people actually depend on this guy for news, the same way I shudder to think that some people only read the "Opinion" page of the newspaper to find out what's going on in the world.
On the way back to the office, it was Even More Conservative Radio. Most of it was tolerable, and there even were one or two good points made, but I had to restrain myself from yelling back at the radio when, during a rant about mainstream media and how they all are Teh Ebil Liberalz, the host asked something along the lines of, "Shouldn't there be some sort of organization monitoring these journalists and making sure they're only writing morally responsible things?" WTF? Sorry, lady, that sounds a bit Big Brother-ish to me, and I'm not talking about the reality show. Not to mention that THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES has an amendment to make sure that exactly that does not happen. I've been abroad and seen what the press is like if you do have some sort of body monitoring the press and censoring what they don't feel should be published. What it leads to is an uninformed public, only seeing one side of an issue. And if you never know both sides, if you never know the arguements all around, then you can't really form a true opinion, nor can you truly be taking sides on an issue.
Okay, I'm done. No more political rants from me for a good long while, I promise.
On the way back to the office, it was Even More Conservative Radio. Most of it was tolerable, and there even were one or two good points made, but I had to restrain myself from yelling back at the radio when, during a rant about mainstream media and how they all are Teh Ebil Liberalz, the host asked something along the lines of, "Shouldn't there be some sort of organization monitoring these journalists and making sure they're only writing morally responsible things?" WTF? Sorry, lady, that sounds a bit Big Brother-ish to me, and I'm not talking about the reality show. Not to mention that THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES has an amendment to make sure that exactly that does not happen. I've been abroad and seen what the press is like if you do have some sort of body monitoring the press and censoring what they don't feel should be published. What it leads to is an uninformed public, only seeing one side of an issue. And if you never know both sides, if you never know the arguements all around, then you can't really form a true opinion, nor can you truly be taking sides on an issue.
Okay, I'm done. No more political rants from me for a good long while, I promise.
