D’oh’s and Woohoo’s
Well TV Guide has its “Cheers and Jeers” column so I thought I would make up my own version called “D’oh’s and Woohoo’s.”
Well TV Guide has its “Cheers and Jeers” column so I thought I would make up my own version called “D’oh’s and Woohoo’s.” So hopefully Fox won’t sue me for using two of Homer Simpson’s catchphrases.
Woohoo to the bookstores in this country that are offering customers the option of having their record of what they purchased destroyed after they buy a book. This protects people from having their book buying tracked by the government thanks to the U.S. Patriot Act.
D’oh for Attorney General John Ashcroft. With everyone worried about homeland security it is good to see that our attorney general has his priorities straight this past week with a task force of hundreds of agents rounding up people who sell marijuana paraphernalia. You know I feel safer knowing Tommy Chong won’t be able to sell people a bong. This guy is a complete idiot. With this and trying to strip away many of our constitutional rights except for the Second Amendment, of course. He really needs to worry about protecting our ports, borders and people from real threats not pot paraphernalia.
Woohoo to HBO for having the guts to put Bill Maher back on the air.
His show “Real Time with Bill Maher” is one of the only places where we can here uncensored and often funny debate on what is going on right now in this country. He has an anti-war stance, which seems to be a problem for some other networks.
Which brings me to Do’h to MSNBC for canning Donahue. He had the highest-rated program on the network but that was not good enough. An internal memo was leaked that the executives felt it might be a problem to have Donahue on the air if we go to war because of his anti-war stance. Donahue may be an old-fashioned liberal but at least he showed both sides of the story on his show and backed it up with facts. Which is more than I can say for right-wingers like Bill O’Reilly.
Speaking of which – D’oh for the right-wing columnists and talk-show hosts who have been saying people who speak out against the war and the president are being treasonous. Maybe they forgot we are living in a country where people are allowed to express their opinion even when it does not agree with the president, unless of course you are a Dixie Chick.
D’oh to all the stupid rednecks who called up country-music radio stations asking them to ban the Dixie Chicks. While touring in Europe the Chicks got a first-hand look at how much the rest of the world hates us. During one of their shows singer Natalie Maines made the comment that she was “ashamed that the president of the United States is from Texas.” Hey, I would be too if I were from Texas. However, the backlash was amazing and the Chicks were vilified for saying something that many of us feel.
So finally that brings us to – D’oh to the Bush administration for the way it has handled the whole Iraq situation. Besides the fact that they have never given a good reason for why Saddam and why now, this administration has done one stupid thing after another. They have totally squandered any goodwill and support we had after 9/11. They apparently have no idea what diplomacy is and how it works. They think the United Nations is irrelevant even though the rest of the world does not. They simply have not made their case. They have tried to bully the rest of the world into supporting them, and guess what? It didn’t work. What do you expect other countries to do when our leaders are calling them names and secretly spying on their U.N representatives? Welcome to the United States in 2003, where the inmates truly are running the asylum.
