Talking idiots

Having watched CNN for the better part of yesterday (I couldn’t force myself to switch over to FOX), it is my opinion that the the ones I listened to have nothing but straw between their ears. My gosh what a bunch of dunces.

It started early, too. There Soledad O’Brien sat, with her brows prettily furrowed, asking some expert if the London bombs weren’t proof that the terrorists are desperate. That froze me in a state of absolute fascination. Of all the things to wonder about...that? The security expert whose name I don’t recall, hesitated for a long second and then agreed that they were probably desperate. Neither expanded on their considered opinion of what suggested desperation, but concurred that it must be desperation. I guess not enough things went boom and not enough body parts flew through the air to indicate that the terrorists had proper command of their resources.

It was all downhill from there. By the end of the day, I had to remind myself that the attack didn’t actually happen on American soil. And the only people who seemed cool, calm, and collected were the British officials and residents who spoke in measured tones and didn’t have anything particularly inflammatory to say about anyone other than the rotten scum who did it.

Good god it was an astonishing contrast to the hysteria being displayed on American air waves.

I turned the television off in total disgust early in the evening. When I turned it back on this morning they were still going on and on about it while the British folks had already gone back to work. Even Rudy Giuliani, who I don’t particularly like, was interviewed from London (the Queen will or has, it wasn’t clear which, bestow honorary knighthood on him - yech!) and spoke in a calm and rational way without resorting to hackneyed phrases about bringing anyone to justice. I guess they just assume that’ll happen over there and they don’t need to be incessantly reminded. Maybe there’s something in the English air that we lack over here.

I dunno. It seemed as if CNN turned it into an “all about us” event rather than something terrible that happened to the Londoners across the ocean. And rather than reporting on what was actually happening in London, it was all about what didn’t happen here, but might (but, really, it can’t happen because we’re fighting them in Iraq so they don’t blow things up here. England doesn’t count.).

Yesterday belonged to the British. Not us.

But it was a great opportunity to pile on all Muslims in all corners of the world.

I am sick and disgusted with what we have become.