I feel as if I lied to you all in my last entry. It kind of looks like nothing is happening on Capitol Hill. It’s like radio silence from Houston during a catastrophe in space. Well, it’s either that or the media is really trying to make people care about something they find entertaining. Today I was extremely disappointed to load the political page on the New York Times website only to find that the main headline was Arnold Schwarzenegger and his housekeeper. I even turned on BBC Nightly News on PBS and that was the main story. It is really beyond me why this is so much more important than anything else going on in the United States. Oh, wait I just rechecked the website and it finally updated to a newsworthy story. It looks like at the late hour of 8:43 p.m. that someone finally decided to report on something that will actually impact the country.
It looks like a lot of the other non-Schwarzenegger related news has to do with the 2012 presidential election. Apparently Newt Gingrich has no personal or political discipline. This is something that he admitted on an episode of Meet the Press and was blogged about on the New York Times Caucus Blogs. (Wow, I’m blogging on a blog…) Now, if I’m correct, this will not help him as the media slowly increases their use of horse-race journalism as the election draws ever closer. Anyway, the headline says Can Newt Gingrich Control Newt Gingrich? I’m guessing that if he wants to get anywhere in the 2012 race, he might just want to learn some discipline. Really, there are just some things that you do not say to the press…things like little, fleeting thoughts that should just stay inside your head if you possess any sense of self-preservation whatsoever. However, it seems that in recent history Mr. Gingrich has been filled with many remarks that will not really help him in the long run. This includes his negative comments on “Obamacare” and the public critique of a proposed budget solution. Like I said, self-preservation is key.
In other 2012 election news…Obama birth certificate t-shirts and mugs are for sale! Get them while their hot! Seriously, you can wear the shirt and drink coffee from the mug as you spread the seeds on your Obama Chia pet. (I totally got one of those for a family member this Christmas.) Well, it’s not actually election news, but it’s coming up on all of the 2012 election news feeds. According to both the New York Times website and AOL News (and probably every other online news source), this is an attack on the birthers who have been attacking Obama from the beginning. At this point, I really do not know what to think. I just thought it was hysterical when he got on the air that fateful Saturday morning (and interrupted the Emperor’s New Groove on ABC Saturday Morning Cartoons), looked America square in the eye, and said something along the lines of “fine here you go!” He looked really angry. I personally felt that for the first time that day he talked to the nation like a regular person. Hey, I also thought that it would have been so much cooler if he flipped the podium during his speech like he was part of a really heated moment on The Real Housewives of New Jersey. I did agree with his point that we as a nation should really be caring about other actually important issues that are plaguing the country. I also agree that it is important for the President to be a natural born citizen, but do you really think that everyone else in the government would have let him assume office had they believed he was not really from this country? Here wait…I can answer that right now. No. I read a really excellent comment that day on Yahoo News and it said something like, “We’re part of three wars overseas, the national debt is through the roof, my Grandma is eating cat food, and the most important thing in the news is Obama’s birth certificate?” Anyway, the shirts and mugs have been released as part of a campaign gimmick. T-shirts are priced at $25 and mugs are being sold for $15.
Speaking of Yahoo News, hot off the presses…someone in Pakistan knew Bin Laden was hiding there. It looks like all of the major sites are once again updating their headlines. Defense Secretary Robert Gates is apparently claiming that he has evidence to the contrary that high ranking officials knew about the whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden. Instead he was hinting toward a lower ranking or retired Pakistani public official. The world’s “public enemy number one” goes into hiding in a not-so-secluded area and no one knows that he is there? That goes on my list with the theory that man did not actually land on the moon. Believe me, people, it happened. You know what else happened? Someone knowing where Osama Bin Laden was…that’s what happened.
Well, that’s really all the major events that have occurred in the US according to all of the news sources that I have skimmed through. Good night all…this is me signing off…keep ticking, and stay informed!
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