Thursday, November 17, 2011

OWS via Comedy Central. Funny? Distrubing? Both?

Jon Stewart always deals with reality. Whatever is happening, he's on the edge of it. Covering it. Mocking it. Providing sometimes accurate, sometimes not, information. And for this, we tune in and watch.

Concerning the OWS movement, Stewart is yet again plowing through the unknowns to bring us the real story, to let this disturbed movement speak for itself. And all it took to motivate this video was a handful of deaths, a murder arrest, the White House shooter, multiple rapes, arson, public defecating, mobs, attacks on police, sexual acts in front of children, outbreaks of lice, TB, and ringworm, as well as dump trucks full of garage to clean-up after they leave their dirty needles behind.

Clap, my friends. Clap loud. It's modern day journalism at it's...tardiest.


Best line: This is a personal possession. I'm talking...I'm more against private property, not personal property.

Absolutely. Right on. Because private property is something owned by a person or private group and personal property is something...owned by a... Let me give this another try. Because private property only belongs to specific individuals, not the collective, and personal property only belongs to specific....

Okay, okay. I can get this. Private property isn't personal. Personal property is private. Being private about your personal.... Oh, forget it.
World English Dictionary
private property — n land or belongings owned by a person or group and kept for their exclusive use. Like an iPad2.

5 comments:

Jason Michael Shuttlesworth said...

So...you can own stuff, but it must be kept in the open for everyone to see it. Because if it's private, nobody will see it, and that's bad. And owning stuff nobody can see is bad because everyone should, and has a right, to see what everybody else has got...so we can all be equal...and in this big thing called Life, we can only be equal if everybody has the same stuff, preferably organic stuff, that sits out in the open.

The danger, see, is that when people have stuff, like animal fur, hidden in their closet, they can use the hidden tiger fur and beaver pelts to do things we can't enjoy together...things like going to Wal-Mart en masse on Black Friday...on African-American Friday...to buy organic plastic do-hickeys and thing-a-ma-jigs for the next local get-together in which we all share and share alike.

Does this make sense?

Tara Lynn Thompson said...

Yes? Wait. No. Wait. Can you repeat the question?

Jason Michael Shuttlesworth said...

Cognitive meaninglessness...this is what I see when I watch those heads on the plastic box move their lips and make language-like utterances. And another reason why I prefer the written word over the spoken words.

But not always...

Z said...

if they'd only just confine those pesky lice to private...er...personal...er..
they're into SHARING, lice, TB...whatever.

I had an email telling me I should come by that; you had great humor...my buddy was right!

Tara Lynn Thompson said...

Z. Thanks for coming by! Visit anytime. And bring your obviously brilliant buddies.