President “Fancy Pants!” = [Should black people get to wear nice clothes?]
Fareed Zakaria
Have we all gone crazy? I don’t mean you, I mean us, the media. In dealing with the serious problem involving technical breakdown, engineering malfunctions, environmental fallout, regulatory mishaps, the media has decided to hone in on one central issue above all others: presidential emotion.
Fareed is right of course, the 24-7 news monkeys have an addictive need to trivialize every story that rolls into their reality. While it might be telling to find which network started this particular ball of crap rolling, it’s not surprising to note the Fux Noize children’s channel attacked the story from the most obtuse level: Not only is the president not throwing a tantrum (for which they could then attack him for being childish), the president is also not dressing up in Palin-esque chest waders over a haz-mat suit, (for which they could then attack him for being a pussy) but is, according to news actress Gretchen Carlson, wearing “fancy pants.”
Pre-Fux News Actress, Gretchen in happier daze.
“Fancy pants”? Seriously? Even a “fancy shirt”? Are fancy pants the new “uppity”? Well, look. The white adult male children watching Fux Noize aren’t watching Gretchen‘s lips move, let alone listening to what she’s saying. They’re watching how high her skirt slides up, and waiting for her to cross and un-cross her legs. End of story. So much for the level of national debate.
But speaking of national debate: I have one small bone to pick with Zakaria, host of the “Global Public Square,” who noted above he didn’t have much to say about an international oil company creating an eco-catastrophuque with planetary ramifications, because he thought it was a “domestic story.” Uh no. If you’re going to host a show that portends to be global in scope, make sure you know what a “global” issue is.
Global oil energy, and its evil twin, global oil eco-disaster, qualify as legitimate global issues, and will continue to do so as long as there’s even one oil rig drilling in the oceans of the world without the technological know-how to clean up their inevitable mess, or lacking the ethical chops to take responsibility for their actions before they commit planetary felonies.
That kind of stupid takes some real “fancy pants.”
It’s not the pants so much as it is the fancy leather belt.
And— what you can do with it.
i’ll bet that gretchen got her present job by taking her fancy pants off.
Bwahaha!
I don’t think I’ll ever win a bet with you Nonnie
I can think of a number of reasons why the M$M is obsessed with pushing their Is the president showing sufficient emotion narrative:
1. Infotainment is their game. Each network hopes that they’re the one that catches Obama in the act of being the angry black man stereotype that the Reich Wing Racists are nurturing (ratings to follow).
2. They’re too lazy to wrap their minds around the engineering complexities and the ecological dangers of deep ocean oil and gas drilling. (Then there’s the cognitive challenges of explaining same to their dumbed down audiences.)
3. They profit from Big Oil’s advertising $. Don’t know about you, but I’m not in the market for a company to develop my personal off shore, deep water leasing tracts.
As for newsmodel and former beauty queen Fetchin Gretchin, puhleeze…
Fahreed Zakira is a fish of a different kettle. I started to dislike to him during the build up to the Iraq War, and he went to the top of my media shit list when I found out he was one of three media industry insiders tapped by the White House to sell the invasion. Most recently on his hour long Sunday morning CNN interview show, he played the same roll for the banksters of Goldman Sachs. On one show, he uncritically parroted their defense for why they screwed their own clients. The next week he gave its CEO carte blanche to make his case, after which he invited his audience to weigh in on whether Blankfein had changed their opinion of the company, promising to share the results the following week. He never did.
Just your typical establishment tool.