Kanye and Joe Wilson: Who Cares?
Time to admit something: I’m kind of uncool.
On a scale of one to badass, I’m somewhere around Screech from Saved by the Bell.
Maybe that’s why I’m a little jealous of Kanye and, to some degree, even Joe Wilson.
These guys have been cocky enough to actually yell out and take over our collective attention with their bad behavior for the past week or so and to some degree – I kinda envy that. But it takes a certain type of person to bluster on loudly while important things are actually happening.
And all the while, nobody is talking about the issues we actually give a damn about. What ever happened to that little health care reform thing? Or the fact that the racism we all believed to be dead is making a resurgence in ‘news’ punditry? Or an effective, progressive climate bill?
It’s kind of like our eating habits. More often than not, we’ll choose a big, juicy gossip Big Mac over a nutritious fact salad. And we’re infinitely worse off for it. As young Americans, we really need to reevaluate our news habits… or soon enough, we’re gonna be watching the weekly (Insert Pundit Here) Hot Dog Eating Contest And Face Punch Challenge for our daily updates on the state of the country.
Could be just the Screech side of me talking though.
