Yeah, That Sums Things Up

[filkertom]

This headline sums up everything about how fucked-up our country has become.

Comments

[thingunderthest.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I just about plotzed when I heard the appology on the radio.

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

Beyond Belief.

[ladyotterfae.livejournal.com]

*jawdrop*

hello, mothership? it just officially got too creepy around here for me. Can you come get me?

[darthparadox.livejournal.com]

Got room for me?

[daundelyon.livejournal.com]

Me too! I'm small and I fold well, I'll fit in your luggage!

[omimouse.livejournal.com]

Can I squeeze in?

[palenoue.livejournal.com]

So that's why Cheney visted him in the hospital, to bully him into a public apology the same way he bullies congress into supporting torture.

[brithistorian.livejournal.com]

That is messed up.

[tibicina.livejournal.com]

*stares* *just stares* *tries to find words* *utterly fails and goes back to staring*

[jmthane.livejournal.com]

Scotty, beam me up. Now would be a good time.

Scotty...?

Scotty?!?

[wouldyoueva.livejournal.com]

He's dead.

And we're fucked.

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

Uncle Lumpy to Vice President, "Go fuck yourself!"

[ciarrai.livejournal.com]

Course he apologized. If the guy who shot me was walking around loose and wanted an apology, I'd apologize... right before leaving the country and disappearing.

[drzarron.livejournal.com]

And what I want to know is just how much make-up is that man wearing?

[annearchy.livejournal.com]

Doesn't that make you want to PUKE?? Cheney shoots this guy and the victim apologizes. Next thing you know, they'll be making the survivors of Hurricane Katrina apologize for not being rich enough to rebuild their own houses.

Oh. Wait.

Oh yeah

[jkb.livejournal.com]

As soon as I saw your entry, I knew which headline you must mean. Un-effing-believable. And it seems to be presented with a straight face -- except something about the way CNN said it is *so* over the top, it almost sounds as if someone there knows how nuts it is and was spelling it out.

[omimouse.livejournal.com]

-headdesk- -headdesk- -headdesk-

I have been sitting at this keyboard for about 10 minutes now, trying to think of something to say that will accurately describe my feelings. All I'm coming up with is the desire to beat various and sundry people about the head and shoulders. With a cactus.

But why would I inflict such anguish and suffering on the cactus?

[salkryn.livejournal.com]

I think this requires all of us to roll a compulsory sanity check.

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

Failed that years ago...
round about the time Bush got elected the first time.

Still wondering what'n'hell people were thinking of!

[trdsf.livejournal.com]

We didn't elect him in '00. He just used his buddies on the Supreme(ly political) Court to get in anyway. Apparently, our coups d'é'tat are handled through the legal system.

[jrtom.livejournal.com]

I actually believe that it's possible that Whittington is being sincere. Possibly he's an old-fashioned gentleman and he thinks that it's appropriate given what he believes (or knows) Cheney to have gone through as a result of this.

Don't get me wrong--my impression of Cheney is nothing but negative. But I think it's possible that the man actually has friends. I can imagine apologizing to a friend of mine in such a circumstance--even if I thought that he made the mistake.

A question worth asking: if, say, Kerry had accidentally shot a friend of his while out hunting and the friend subsequently apologized--either for Kerry's presumed mental anguish or for the attendant press firestorm--what would your reaction be?

I would be horrified

[jkb.livejournal.com]

especially if Kerry hadn't accompanied his friend to the hospital, and if he hadn't expressed his own regret for days, and if he didn't quickly speak out to counter the friend's apology.

But John Kerry, being an old-fashioned New England gentleman, wouldn't possibly behave in the caddish fashion that the Vice President has.

Re: I would be horrified

[holzman.livejournal.com]

Let's not stop there.

John Kerry, having handled firearms as a real soldier and not a make-believe hunter is less likely to have forgotten his responsibility to know what he was shooting before he shot it.

Re: I would be horrified

[omimouse.livejournal.com]

John Kerry, having handled firearms as a real soldier and not a make-believe hunter is less likely to have forgotten his responsibility to know what he was shooting before he shot it.

My (to date) one and only gun lesson was with a rifle, and it was given to me by someone who is ex-military, and who grew up hunting out in Louisiana. By the time the lesson was over, I had it pounded into my skull that it was my responsibility to always be aware of what I was pointing the gun at. The trigger was my responsibility, no one else's. Missing the animal was bloody well worth not hitting a person. Pointing a gun at something is nothing less than a declaration of intent and willingness to kill that something. Period. End of story, bye-bye, see yeh later.

The kids got the same lecture plus a demonstration that involved a shotgun and several pumpkins, squash, and assorted melons with faces drawn onto them. The kids also got a graphic demonstration (not purposefully, BTW) of what happens when a load of shot hits a possum.

There are days when I believe that it would do a lot of good to require attending such a demonstration before being allowed to purchase a firearm.

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

From what I heard of Whittington's "apology", I don't think it was one at all. He said, in effect, I am sorry my friend had to go through this; to apologize would have been to say, in effect, This was my fault and I beg your foregiveness. Now, if NPR, that bastion of liberal bias, left out the objectionable part of Whittington's remarks, I might be wrong, but in what I heard, Whittington didn't say that it was his own fault he got shot; he said it was accident, the risk you assume when you go hunting at all. It's really no different from what they've been saying all along. I think the problem is that some people think that if someone uses the word "sorry" in a statement it is appropriate to call the statement an apology, and once the headlines call it an apology, other people are assuming it was a genuine act of contrition.

[fractalwolf.livejournal.com]

And here I thought at first you were referring to the headline at the top at the time I checked... "Having admitted unparalleled corruption, defendant Randall H. Cunningham now comes before the Court to be sentenced for his stunning betrayal of the public trust."

[r-caton.livejournal.com]

*Drum roll up and over*
"That was the Goon Show, a BBC recorded programme featuring...."

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

Oy vey...
add that to the way they lied about it all, despite the fact that there was no real wrong doing involved [hello, accident, comprenda?].

Folks, the most powerful country in the world is being run by a bunch of corrupt, power-hungry, psychotic, low-down dirty-rotten scoundrels who lie, cheat, bully and steal as easily and automatically as they breath....

Scared yet?

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Been scared ever since the first campaign in 2000, when Dubya said he wanted to reduce our dependence on foreign oil by working with Mexico....

[trdsf.livejournal.com]

Of course, we all know how this would be playing out if it were a Democratic vice president. He'd've been impeached by now, and they'd have Ken Starr back to look into allegations on Faux News that the president ordered the VP to shoot him.

Not that I'm... fuck it. Yes, I am bitter.

[omimouse.livejournal.com]

Not that I'm... fuck it. Yes, I am bitter.

That makes at least two of us. Neocons seem to be very good at causing this reaction.

[magicaltrevor.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we got one over here saying "Cheney Bounces Back". ...And I just kept reading it, over and over, willing it to make sense. And it never did. It still said "Cheney" and I still kept thinking ridiculous things, like, "Maybe it's a typo. Maybe they meant to say 'Cheney's Friend' Bounces Back'", but my angry-feminist brain just kept screaming about how this administration is all about the victim-blaming.

Somebody needs to go rouse JFK and tell him to apologise.

[trdsf.livejournal.com]

Somebody needs to go rouse JFK and tell him to apologise.

Wow. That is the single most cynical thing I've ever seen written.

I'm impressed. :)

[liddle-oldman.livejournal.com]

*blink*

*blink* *blink*

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

1984 is beginning to seem a lot less far-fetched...

[deadpool247.livejournal.com]

"An apology? Cool...good for him. Oh, Harry is apologizing. Okay. Well, let get to...

Wha..........t?" (stunned look on face)