Obama Jokes about Drones – Is it offensive?
When I first heard about the joke – the fact that he had made such a joke, I felt like I had been hit in the stomach. It made me sick. I started reeling with all kinds of hyper-crazy assumptions, like maybe indeed he IS a plant by the GOP and that he is no different than Bush.
Then I did the smart thing, and looked it up – and it turned out that I was completely misguided by my fears. Here’s a reprint of the joke:
“Jonas Brothers are here, they’re out there somewhere. Sasha and Malia are huge fans, but boys, don’t get any ideas. Two words for you: predator drones. You will never see it coming. You think I’m joking?”
I was relieved afterward, seeing that it was OBVIOUSLY not the sick kind of joke Bush made about trying to find hidden WMD’s in Iraq. What’s the difference? Obama wasn’t making fun of the victims, soldiers, or people we are at war with, or the families of victims of any war. He was making fun of the Jonas Brothers. Celebrities. Big, big, big difference.
Sigh of relief….
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About me...let's see...
I guess I'm just another tree-huggin', commie, Cheetos-eating, pajama-wearing, unemployed blogger.
I'm anxious and vainly optimistic about where the country is headed, and openly dreaded the day Bush ever came into political office...I''m not happy about having a party filled with spineless "oh we need to cherish the blue dog dems" ...but I'm also glad that we are finally moving away from the cliff we were all teetering on for the past decade.
What bothers me most is the fact that too few people today understand how incredibly dangerous our government has become or how unreliable and weak our news sources are. I'm not just talking about Fox. I'm talking about the bulk of the mainstream media. It's not liberal - and it's certainly not fair or balanced. My kind of news reporting was the kind I grew up in the 70s, and clearly remember a time when the so-called liberal media was all about reporting the cold, hard facts, filled with investigative journalism, and anchors or reporters who refused to do fluff pieces - like cats stuck in trees, water-skiing squirrels, and Darwin-award-winning idiots who would do anything to make themselves into a news story. Being a reporter meant something more noble than a fat paycheck. You did your job because you wanted to get the truth out there. Now? You're mostly smeared or called a tin-foiled-hat-wearing lunatic of you find out - and expose - any kind of government or corporate corruption.
The upside of today's kind of media? Bloggers are a new breed of journalists - ready to hit the streets...err digital webspace... and have helped get a president elected, and a fascist dictatorship out of power.
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