oi vey.
someone in venezuela said that i didn’t apologize for pat robertson during the concert.
to which i can only say: but i did.
maybe you were in the bathroom, but i very clearly apologized for george bush and pat robertson being idiots.
-moby

ny times:

“…mr. robertson was far from apologetic on his television show today, instead insisting that he had been been “misinterpreted” by the associated press and that he had never used the word “assassination.”

but the video from monday’s telecast, easily available on the internet, shows mr. robertson saying of the venezuelan president: “if he thinks we’re trying to assassinate him, i think that we really ought to go ahead and do it.”

ok,
so now we all see that pat robertson is a belligerent lunatic.
so we can move on, right?
the right wing in america are nuts, but that unfortunately comes as no surprise.
they believe that the world was created in 6 days and that teletubbies are evil and that bare breasts on tv are more offensive than dead iraqi’s and that kids reading ‘harry potter’ will end up as witches and that good christians support war and guns and assasinations and that pregnancies resulting from rapes should be rejoiced over.
so let’s move on, ok?
the christian right wing in america are insane and, fyi, very dangerous, because currently they are running the country.
(as an aside: please, please, please, can we please re-instate the mason-dixon line? please? any sane and progressive southerners will be more than welcome to move north. we’ll give you a donkey and 40 acres and it’ll all work out swimmingly. and, in the process, we in the north can stop pouring our tax dollars into the ‘christian’ south, where the abortion and crime rates are considerably higher than they are in the ‘godless’ north. just fyi).
ok, we’ve moved on.
but, alas, there are tens of millions of people in america who still think that saddam hussein was behind 9-11 and that iraq had wmd’s and that gw bush is not a liar and that the war in iraq is/was justified etc, etc.
so what do we do with the tens of millions of americans who are just fucking ignorant and ill-informed?
do we have to start administering voting tests?
question a: gw bush did knowingly lie about the cost of his medicare reform package to the tune of a few hundred billion dollars.
(hint: true).
question b: the bush administration did knowingly lie about and distort intelligence reports to justify the invasion of iraq.
(hint: true).
question c: the highest crime and abortion and illiteracy and infant-mortality rates occur in ‘red’ states that traditionally vote for republicans.
(um, hint: true).
question d: the bush administration has contained the highest number of convicted felons of any administration in the history of the united states.
(tautologically, hint: true).

well, and so on.
sorry if this is a nasty, political journal entry. but i’m sick and fucking tired of being associated with dim-witted americans who get all of their information from right wing news outlets and have no idea what’s actually going on in the rest of the world, let alone their own country.
i still don’t understand how the party of joe mccarthy, rush limbaugh, newt gingrich, trent lott, bob barr, james watt, etc, can maintain it’s stranglehold on the u.s.

exasperatedly yours,
moby