Atrios links to Sarah Palin talking in front of a bunch of turkeys being slaughtered after she pardoned one of them. That is pretty funny, actually. It didn't occur to me before, but the whole turkey pardoning ritual has got to be as insensitive and mildly irritating towards hunters and farmers who raise animals for their meat as it is towards animal rights groups.
MSNBC blurring out the blood and warning parents to shield their children's eyes is just offensive if they're not going to take a stand arguing for a meatless Thanksgiving.
Friday, November 21, 2008
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She *signed off* on the background? "No worries"? One wonders what message this is supposed to be sending.
MSNBC, it could be argued, is only warning vegetarian parents to shield eyes. Slightly more convincingly, they could be argued to be just issuing a general warning, which many hypocritical meat-eating parents would heed (including me, if I even watched the news at all, let alone with my squeamish, meat-eating kids).
Well yeah, but as a media outlet I think they should be obligated to confront viewers with their hypocrisies rather than accommodating them.
WHY THE HELL ARE YOU WATCHING ME? YOU SHOULD BE DONATING YOUR CABLE MONEY TO AFRICA! TURN OFF THE TV AND READ A BOOK, YOU SCUM!
I'm Keith Olbermann. Good night.
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