Marshall McLuhan's Ghost Is Looking Over My Shoulder
The Internet! The Internet! Blog news reporters! Wow. I'm listening to Brother Bill Moyers confessin' on Amy Goodman's Democracy Now radio show--you gotta love Amy--she forced her way into journalism and came out the queen of Indie media when she and Juan Gonzales became the possessors of Free Radio's (that was once the idea behind Pacifica (the founder of Pacifica was a conscientious objector in WWII and Pacifica means Peace and not because it was situated on the West Coast) Radio--free radio for everybody) Democracy Now--and I, off the top of my head, believe Amy and Juan did put that show together originally from WBAI Pacifica here in NYC--Amy's an interesting character--but later for her...bye, Amy--"Hey, Bill Moyers, c'mon over here, pal...."
Bill's confessin' away. He's on Amy's show promoting his PBS return show Bill Moyers Journal --this after Bill gave up when the Neo-Cons tried to ruin PBS and kicked Bill's bleeding-heart liberal ass off the air and Bill swore he was giving up, goin' fishin', whatever a rich dude does when he retires...but NOPE! Bill's back and he's rarin' to go. You can't keep an old journalist down, and that's true, I grew up with a journalist brother who kept writing his column right up until the day he died and he knew Bill Moyers, too, and I've met Bill Moyers a couple'a times, though Bill Moyers would flick me off his ass like he would a flea were I to go up to him and say, "Hey, Bill, Brother Bill, it's me thegrowlingwolf, come on, man, you remember me...hey, man, get your hands off me...me and old Bill go way back...." and I'd be booted into the gutter on my ass.
The world is driving me nuts. I just heard one of the superastronomists saying these guys who gaze at the stars all their lives have discovered a planet very similar to Earth out there--way out there of course--and guess the heck what I think I know? YOU READY FOR THIS? Quick, call Pastor Melissa Scott to her titanium laptop with her gold initials and an enamel photo of old Doctor Gene on its hull--surely if there's a heaven, Doctor Gene should have bought it by now and had Melissa beamed up--I know, if I ended up in Heaven and Jesus asked me did I want any favors, I'd say, "Jesus, damn you, dude, could you get me my woman up here?" "You mean Sister Melissa, my son?" "Oh yes, Lard, now that my prostate's back whole, could you ship her up here sort like you did that dude back in the Old Testesment, Lard--Enoch, wasn't that his name?" "You mean Enoch Schmull, my butcher? You want I should bring that sweet Melissa up here to be a butcher's assistant?" It's complicated in Heaven---BUT LISTEN, I, thegrowlingwolf ,do hereby propose that this new planet be named the Planet Melissa--dig? BECAUSE I THINK this NEW planet that so resembles EARTH IS ACTUALLLLLY...are you sitting down?...this is a Daily Growler X--cluuuuSIVE!
I believe with all my wolf heart that this planet resembling Earth they've discovered outside our solar system, too, PRAISE THE LARD...IS IN REALITY HEAVEN!!!!!!
Can I hear some Hallelujahs and Hosannas?...thegrowlingwolf has discovered Heaven!
Sorry, folks...oh, especially if you're still with me after that tirade! I just thought I had a thing there, something maybe I could start a religion on, you know, like I know where Heaven is--see!; look at all the money I could make! Set up little observatory chapels all over the place--"Come, view Heaven and Praise the Lard and pass the collection bucket at the same time at thegrowlingwolf's Church of the Visible Heaven!!! God-damn, I was born to this. I'm an advertising genius. Ask those who've seen me work; they'll tell you in unison I'm the greatest creative mind in NYC, which means the world, folks, the world....[I'm laughing like a hyena as I wolf dance around my shabby room].
So I heard Bill Moyers confessin' to Amy Goodman and this is what drove me to "pen" this (feels weird how obsolete that term is now--"to pen"...as with quill, I suppose) episode of lunacy in my daily blog-swamped existence. Bill Moyers confessed to Amy that he was a proud pusher of the Vietnam War until he started talking to David Halberstam when he came back his first time from covering the Vietnam War live from the fields of battle and told Bill the war was all baloney and was causing horrible death and destruction--and tip your hats, your bottles, or at least salaam to David Halberstam--he saw the light in Nam right off the bat--Best and Brightest, wasn't that his book?--funny how that title became a corporate trick of deciding who to fire in the late 80s and early 90s, the computer age, the age of corporate reengineering--ironies!--and after talking to David Halberstam Bill began to have serious doubts about the Vietnam War....
In all my Bill Moyers-tracking days I've never heard Bill confess this, you know, talk honestly about those days he was Johnson's press secretary--handpicked by Lyndon who thought of Brother Bill as his own son--remember Lyndon was sonless, the father of two "semi-beautiful" daughters (that was the way the cynics described his daughters)--though I kind'a thought Lucy Baines was a pretty good-looking babe--even old Lynda Bird wasn't bad either, but Billy Moyers was Lyndon "Big Balls" Johnson's sonny boy. And Bill was Lyndon's mouthpiece for 2 years--Bill spread the word about the Gulf of Tonkin, the phony sea battle that never took place yet started our serious involvement in the Vee-et-naam Wahr--yeehaw, Commander and Chief Lyndon "Big Balls" Johnson.
And so now Bill has come clean--yes, he promoted the Vietnam debacle--but he didn't ever say, that I know of, that the Vietnam War was wrong, based on a big lie, same as all wars we've gotten ourselves into since we became turncoats against the British Crown, our Great White Fathers. Lies cause wars.
In the meantime, Mean-ass Rudi "America's Mayor" Guiliani is campaigning wildly around the country even though it's over a year and a half until the next election; yet, all these glory seeking nest-egg hatching stary-eyed, two-bit career politicians are chasing after their chance of a lifetime to be the world's most powerful asshole...I mean, mark my words, it doesn't matter who gets elected in 2008, nothing's going to change--there'll still be death and destruction ruling over life and conversation--and there'll be more and more shooters out there coming after us--one today in New York State shot 4 New York State troopers after they pulled him over at an upstate New York gas station--then he escaped to an ex-cop's country estate--a beautiful old upstate farm and farmhouse--and from there this dude pumped a hundred rounds or so at the cops, killing one of the troopers. After declaring this young white male a verified cop killer (cops are ruled by Babylonian law, by the bye; you know, "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth") the police then set the country house on fire--and quite a blaze it was--and the whole farmhouse burned to smithereens in a matter of minutes--all shown on NYC television. They later said the dude's body was found sitting upright in a burnt out doorframe, his body cooked to a sizzling crisp (Teevee Chef Daisy Martinez pronouced him overcooked and then proceeded to explain the falacy of cooking humans over an old farmhouse open fire--"That's too much heat for this 170-lb human--and it was fully clothed, too, which is like cooking a chicken in a paper bag--which, by the way, I'm featuring on my next show....").
Guns are good though. Like Goebbels said WAR IS FOREVER, We the People say GUNS ARE FOREVER! We have a Constitutional right to carry muskets with powderhorns and ballshot or rakes or pitchforks when we have to form state militias to fight an invading force, like our own government turning oppressive, for instance--and now we have the right to carry Glocks and AKAs and submachineguns and missile launchers. I can't wait for the first modern-day gun battles in the street--say Blackwater declaring war on another Security Agency Army--or even the US National Guard units--oops, I forgot, they're all serving triple-time-call-backs in Iraq aren't they? That means we've lost our state militias to the Iraq War; which means, we have no local protection against a private army taking over one of our large cities--like Chicago maybe; like Los Angeles maybe.
Thought it was kind'a funny to hear Bill Clinton, that phony hillbilly bastard, praising Boris Yeltsin, the vodka-drinkin' fool who wrecked the Soviet Union without a public referendum and left the Russian economy in total chaos, as a champion of democracy. Shows you how many faces old Bill can throw your way when he's in the spotlite. Hillary is so dull, I can't believe people seem to really like her. Why? She's dull. She has what seems like no honest reasoning ability--she's been coached to act like every other politician you've ever seen, except as in all of these kind of elections, the Dumbocrats once again are being so polite while the Repugnicans, like Rudi Guiliani, what a crass totally LYING son of a bitch this goombah is, are already spewing totally inane accusational trash against the naive Dumbocrat candidates. Roarin' Rudi has now became a military genius, this a coward of a man who ran like a dog when he was pompously rambling with his henchmen after 9/11 and looked up and saw those mighty invincible towers come tumbling down as if they were so much nothing in terms of invincible--and oh boy, Rudi's black SUVs with the darkened windows squealed out of there as though shot from a cannon. Rudi's a man, by the way, and surely we all know this, you shouldn't trust around your women, which makes me wonder how many abortions Rudi's paid for over his Casanova-career? You think Bernie Keric ever paid for his concubines to get abortions? You think if you knocked up a public figure celebrity woman like Bernie was bangin' in the dusts of the 9/11 aftermath (Judy, better have your lungs checked) she wouldn't get an abortion should she find out she was carrying a little 9/11-damaged fetal freak?
Rudi the Loser's new move as front-running Repugnican candidate (he was that in his New York senate race he lost to Hillary Rod-HAM Clinton--that's how Hill got to Congress) is to accuse the Dumbocrats of screwing around the Iraq War mess when they know not what they're doing (as though Rudi does know what's going on overthere) and saying the Dumbocrats by calling for troop withdrawal by a certain date are giving Al Queda all the information it needs to know to begin its own surge in Iraq--where, just think, five years ago, there was no Al Queda presence in Iraq. Ain't that strange! Isn't that the SUBJECT these Dumbocrats should be raising?--raising these issues up to levels of brilliance before the American people enough that the furor will enable THIS Congress to impeach this whole administration rather than just keepin' on going along with it and giving it more cannon fodder young American men and women to ravage and kill and more billions and billions of our whole National Treasury to squander? Dennis Kocinich today proposed impeaching Unka Dick! Dennis, Dennis, it's Bush you want to impeach, pal, then Unka Dick will be out on his ass, too. What is wrong with Dumbocrats? Why are they so afraid of going up against this little phony weasel of a president--come on--he's easy; you got him on the ropes, now beat the shit out of him. This is the world title we're trying to get back from the fight-throwing, fight-fixing lyin' dog of a phony never-honestly-elected "president," our first-ever appointed president--you don't do it fighting him with powder puffs.
Dumbass spoiled brat Baby Boomers...oh shit, folks, nearly all of my best friends are Baby Boomers.
THE STUPIDITY OF IT ALL. More death-row dudes are getting out of Illinois prisons today due to DNA tests proving they were innocent when busted and sentenced--the guy today freed after serving 25 years--can you imagine that! 25 years and you're innocent. "Hey, it's a joke, son." That's the state's attitude--though I saw where a lot of these guys are winning multimillion dollar suits against these states and will at least get to live what few years they have left in a good high-style of free life--with mansions and Hummers and shit. Think of how many innocent men had their lives electrocuted away, hanged away, or shot up with paralyzing drugs so that their last hours on earth were hours of the most torturous way to die there is, being paralyzed to death--and they died also with the pain of still knowing they were really innocent. Think of that.
And hundreds of more people died today in Iraq. Oh, well, that's OK. Those are people who hate our Christ and our Living Gawd--so their annihilation is eminent--why, sounds like the same thing Goebbels was saying the other eve, WAR IS GOOD...
And today the stock market zoomed over 13,000 for the first time ever. Did you invest in war stocks today? Too bad you didn't. WalMart--buy. Exxon-Mobil--buy. Halliburton-Dubai--buy. Bechtel-Dubai--buy. Blackwater--are they on the stock exchange yet? Toyota, also, I read, is now the largest automaker in the world. Well, Praise the Silly Lard--wasn't Japan our enemy at one time? We love our enemies as we love ourselves and Britain: there are 5 countries whose economies are outdistancing ours by miles and millions and billions: Germany, Japan, Sweden, Switzerland, and the Netherlands!! Do you think the Euro dollar is soon to become the monetary unit of world measure? I think the Great Democratic Government of Iraq has recently voted to base their money on the Euro dollar and not the US dollar. Good thinking Iraqis. What a mess Wall Street's gonna be the day this stock market implodes and explodes into Chaos. Did you ever ask yourself why a Bin Laden wouldn't have bombed the NY Stock Exchange instead of the WTC?
Get ready to learn Arabic.
thegrowlingwolf
for The Daily Growler
Go Yankees....yeah sure....we're in the basement--there is nothing worse than a New York Yankees fan looking at the standings and seeing the Yanks in the basement, under the Tampa Bay Devil Rays for God's sake--though, hell, they're still only 4 games out of first and Boston and Baltimore have dropped two in a row. That's baseball folks! There's no 4-corners defense in baseball; there's no first down to make; there's no extra points to be kicked...but without pitching, and this year's MLB pitching is very lousy throughout the league, baseball will be exciting, yes, but not expressive of the best teams coming out the deservingest winners. Also, this influx of Japanese pitchers on the majors is not proving to be much help to any of the teams they're on; Japanese pitchers are not invincible after all, but then, they do bring in those muy rico Japanese businessmen into those boxseats and luxury boxes--those high-priced baseball venues that keep making MLB owners richer than all the Holy Roller preachers's tax-free billions combined.
The Mets. They're a half a game ahead of Atlanta.
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