Women Are Dumb, Bitchy

I normally love jezebel.com, but something about this bothered me. Marion Cotillard is called possibly "brain-dead" for believing that 9/11 may not have been a terrorist attack, and attests to believing the conspiracy theory. I don't want to dispute the legitimacy of 9/11, but I think it's fair to say that the irony of an article criticizing a self-hating woman while calling a gorgeous, talented woman brain-dead is not lost on me. She probably just likes conspiracy theories and just watching that movie on Google Videos, like the rest of us who watched that movie on Google Videos, cuz she was fucking bored and it was interesting.

At least this piece of propaganda had evidence that was, on some everyday level, believable. Do we call people who still follow thousands-of-years-old "sacred texts" brain-dead for believing things that, even on face value make NO SENSE?! Come on Jezebel writers, this cannot be the stupidest thing you've ever heard a woman believe. Even though you hardly elaborate, that one line is caustic enough as you've quickly compared an Oscar winner to a woman who says "I can't add 2 and 2 (well I can, but then what?)". This is not a fair comparison. In fact, I would venture to say that a woman who doesn't believe that the government, amongst other things, is lying to everyone, is brain-dead.

I don't know what the government is lying about, I'm sure the producers of Loose Change don't either. But you, jezebel.com don't rank any higher than us...why should anyone believe you or any other media outlet over our own crazy conspiracy theories? There are Democrats and Republicans in the actual government who argue over what actually happens in the actual government. If they can't even agree what's going on, why should we? I began reading you because I believed in your causes and opinions, but now I see that no matter how unconventional and righteous a media outlet can be it will still always be the media, meaning that it will still always allow the generic American opinion permeate their own unique and informed opinions.

I first noticed this when you published the ubiquitous clip of Barack mocking Hillary and John Edwards for their answers of the "what's your worst quality" question in one of the debate. While it was funny, I noticed that you, like every other media outlet which openly and unwaveringly supported Obama since day one, never published any of his errors and embarrassing moments during the debates, though this clip clearly highlightes Clinton and Edwards' mistakes. The few debates I watched, I noticed several embarrassing moments for Obama which were lost in time after the debates, though his moments of outshining his colleagues beleaguered the media. At one point Obama said he didn't vote in either direction on a bill which would make the maximum a credit card can charge for interest 30% because he thought that percentage was too high...even though not voting could clearly allow the percentage to be much higher. No one ever brought this up after the debate, nor did they ever praise John Edwards for calling out both Barack and Hillary non-stop, whil never being caught off gaurd himself.

But besides jezebel.com blindly following in the rest of the media's footsteps in Barack-related issues, I know they have been vocal in their Hillary support and other offbeat calling-out of media whores. What shocks me the most about this whole thing is that I thought that overzealous, unnecessary American nationalism was replaced by overzealous, unnecessary Obama followerism, as expressed by the media and all those ever-fainting fans. A couple years ago, when John Kerry said that if students didn't work hard at school they would end up in Iraq, the media HATED him, liberal and conservative. They said that his statement was basically calling the troops idiots, which truly offends more people that just troops (John Kerry said students who don't go to college are more likely to end up in Iraq, which is a fact. The media made the offensive judgment that not going to college=being an idiot.) At an anti-war protest at Rutgers last year, all the haters showed up yelling about how the students had no respect for the troops and didn't "support them". 1) This statement is stupid. How are we to support them? By having pro-war sentiments, so they can stay there longer increasing their risk of dying? I actually support them LIVING, not dying. If you support the war, then you support their death and the deaths of random Iraqi civilians. How brain-dead do you have to be to not see that? 2) If you really want to support them and still be pro-war, drop out of school and go to Iraq! Prove John Kerry wrong! 3) If you still believe that support=death sentence, then you're brain-dead. Consult a physician ASAP.

However, when Michelle Obama said she had never been proud her country, the media tried to make it a big deal, but no one cared. Don't get me wrong, I don't care either, but when the brain-dead weren't pissed as hell, I began to see that Barack support had healed over the wounds of arbitrary and inappropriate America-lovin'-in-the-form-of-hate. Dr. King was right, only love can drive out hate. Love of Obama can drive out arbitrary and inappropriate America-lovin'-in-the-form-of-hate. Alas, jezebel.com liked Hillary, so maybe they, being in the media but not blinded by Obama, still knee-jerk it when someone says something "wrong". But still, Jez, why so harsh?

Monday, March 3, 2008