It is a sad, a very sad day, when the most stellar political commentary is done by the likes of Jon Stewart and Bill Maher. Last night Bill ended his HBO show with:
In his new ad Mitt Romney warns us that Islamic terrorists are the worse threat we've ever faced. More then the Nazis? The Russians? The Red Coats?
He warns us that they want to establish an Islamic nation, to cover the whole world, including America. Well I want to be adopted by Angelina Jolie.
And you thought that people that were scared of gays and Mexicans were paranoid. Islamic terrorist taking over America, they can barely get across the monkey bars. Our defense budget is $600 billion a year. They're using guns they took off a dead Soviet in 1981. I think we can hold Charleston.
And Bill was just getting started ..........
We are the largest and most powerful nation on the earth. The largest economy and the largest military. And we are made to act the fool by a few thousand cave dwellers who still put out their videos on VHS.
And that is the problem. Because of the incompetence that goes by the name George Bush we have become the most insecure superpower ever. We can't get anything right anymore. We can't take care of our own citizens after a hurricane, or plan for a war, or maintain our infrastructure, and our celebrity rehab facilities need some work.
As a species we are failing at survival trick number one. Prioritize the threats.
Environmental ruin is going to visit all of us in the coming decades in one way or another and when it does, I hope people like .... I don't know Lou Dobbs says to himself maybe if I was going to spend my whole career obsessing about one issue it should have been ... I don't know, global warming. My skin just fell off my face and what do you know, it really wasn't the fault of a Mexican.
Sorry for the short diary, but I know many don't get HBO and I felt that this quote, what he calls "New Rules" was one of the better things I've heard in a long time.
I wish a couple people running for president would hire some of the writers from Real Time or The Daily Show and grow a spine. Bill also said that for Halloween he was going to dress up as something really scary, a melting polar ice cap.
And for the democratic silence on the California wildfires, he said they didn't say anything cause they were sacred of offending fire. Ouch.
I hate, I mean hate that the most blunt and truthful political commentary I get is on Kos or by Digby. Or Bill on Real Time. I have to believe there were a lot of Americans standing up and clapping yesterday when Bill ended his show with the above quote. Why the heck can't our leaders lead?
Quote above starts at 4:10.