I laughed my ass off at this video. “My Unicorn gave birth last night” and “We have one job here and thats to kill old people and serve a liberal fourth reich” are two of my favorite quotes.
Making fun of rediculous right-wing propaganda = funny. The fact that this propaganda is actually scaring Seniors and might lead to end of life care being excluded from the health reform bill = not funny at all. Its disgusting, really. So, while we’re all having a laugh, lets make sure to take action to guarantee quality, affordable and accessible health coverage in America!
If you haven’t checked out Ill Doctrine, hosted by Jay Smooth, do it now. In the video below, Jay Smooth discusses a recent conflict between a few hip hop artists and relates it to the current “debate” surrounding US health care. He explains that both situations were started:
[by a] crew that used to dominate their field but is now struggling to stay relevant and who is now organizing these loud and angry confrontations for the benefit of a camera, based on misrepresenting the facts and sometimes ending in outbreaks of pointless violence.
Now, I haven’t been following the Joe Budden v. Raekwon conflict, but that quote is dead-on when describing the Republican party today.
America’s mainstream media and many of its citizens are famous for vilifying “hip hop culture” as promoting ignorance and irresponsible violence, and Jay Smooth is eloquent as always in explaining that ignorance and irresponsible violence have become central to many aspects of American culture in general, and in politics in particular.
He calls out Republican extremists like Fox News and the gun-toting tea baggers for wasting time on conflict that is based on pettiness and not on facts. This, he says, is an “all-american kind of dumb.”
Celebrities fighting over internet rumors does set a ridiculous example for America’s youth and Jay Smooth’s criticism seems justified. But Republican icons like Sarah Palin and US Senators like Chuck Grassley who blatantly lie and cheat to prevent health care reform should lose all credibility and face severe consequences for spreading blatant lies about Grandma-killing death panels when the health of millions of Americans is at stake.
