Keep on waiting .. waiting on the world to change
Fri Sep 01, 2006 at 08:06:46 AM PDT
I was listening to the radio and heard this song by John Mayer called "Waiting on the world to change" and this snippet caught my ear:
and when you trust your television
what you get is what you got
cause when they own the information, oh
they can bend it all they want
I think it says quite succinctly what we've been saying all along.
After the interesting diary by redmclain on dinner with Helen Thomas, I wrote Helen myself (and of course, provided a link to the story!). For what I wrote and Helen's response back, follow me below the fold.
Good Morning, Helen.
I was reading a diary over at Daily Kos about your speech at the ACLU meeting and it reminded me that I wanted to ask a question. When they showed one of Mr. Bush's press conferences, I spotted you in the front. I wondered how you can sit there and listen to him blather on and on and ON without wanting to throw a shoe. :-)
Seriously, listening to this administration spout such lies with so few even questioning them makes my skin crawl. So many of us out here feel helpless to do anything that will turn things around.
Now that I'm writing this I realize that the above question re: the shoe is actually the one I wanted to ask. If I were in your shoes, I'd need to be heavily medicated in order to keep my mouth shut.
Thanks for all you do. You have my respect, indeed.
Peace and blessings.
And this was her very kind response:
thanks for your great understanding; I think it's important to ask the questions although truth escapes him; he has to know there is a world out there that is horrified at the relentless rampage of slaughter he has touched off in the Middle East that has put our country to shame-helent
So yeah, we keep on waiting for the world to change. But it's those like Helen who keep me going. She's a great role model for our journalists today, as is Keith Olbermann. Both of them aren't WAITING on the world to change but helping us get there a bit more every day.
I'm not one to write deep analytical diaries but thought this kind of tied nicely together.
John Mayer's site
Watch the video here.
it's hard to beat the system
when we're standing at a distance
so we keep waiting
waiting on the world to change
now if we had the power
to bring our neighbors home from war
they would have never missed a Christmas
no more ribbons on their door
and when you trust your television
what you get is what you got
cause when they own the information, oh
they can bend it all they want
that's why we're waiting
waiting on the world to change
we keep on waiting
waiting on the world to change
it's not that we don't care,
we just know that the fight ain't fair
so we keep on waiting
waiting on the world to change
and we're still waiting
waiting on the world to change
we keep on waiting waiting on the world to change
one day our generation
is gonna rule the population
so we keep on waiting
waiting on the world to change
we keep on waiting
waiting on the world to change
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