The Common Ills: Mia and the meanings for America

Stan wrote "Mia Farrow, what the -?" and noted I consider Mia a friend and he hoped it wouldn't be a problem. Thankfully, the private e-mail account didn't register a peep. The public account, where non-community members e-mail, was a different story. And that's actually good because things need to be resaid from time to time.

I don't control anyone's site. I write here and at Third. People can write whatever they want at their sites. About whatever topic or whatever person. Stan runs a great site. He's a great friend. He can write whatever he wants.

I have no comment on Mia's personal life other than I hope she's happy.

Mia's a writer herself. She wrote a wonderful autobiography, filled with magic and hope.

I like Mia, I don't live in her fantasy world.

And it is a fantasy world. I'm not talking about her as a mother, she's a great mother, or as an actress, she's a great actress.

But in terms of 'events,' Mia magic and hope leads her to do stupid things repeatedly.

Some think following a yogi to India was stupid. Others think being involved in the sex charges against him was stupid.

Point being, Mia blindly worships and it never ends well.

I had hoped, since her writing includes her Twitter feed, that she'd either fallen silent today or issued a statement on a matter.

She did neither. Here are some of her uninformed Tweets:

The so-called rebels have killed Americans in Iraq. Sweetness and Light's aware of that, isn't she? The so-called rebels did ethnic cleansing in Libya (Black Libyans were the targeted). Mia miss that too? The so-called rebels have raped women and girls (in Libya and in Syria). The so-called rebels are terrorizing a small Christian community and Mia should really give a damn about that since the most public voice for the community is a nun. (Mia is Catholic.) I could be a mirror image of Mia and use those facts to scream for war the way she does (but for war against the 'rebels'). Instead, I've repeatedly called for diplomacy.

Mia's choices rarely make logical sense. That's because she's ruled by emotion and whichever sad story gets to her first is the one she commits to while turning the others into complete monsters.

She then shoots her mouth whether she bothered to get the facts accurate or not.

That's a little harsher than I'd like to go in here about Mia but I'm also a friend of Naomi Campbell's and she is still hurt over what Mia did. (I have no idea who told the truth in that drama. I don't care. I also don't see how, if true, Mia's gossip served anyone. It was one of many times when Mia should have kept her mouth shut.) (I have not accepted blood diamonds before someone tries to make that into this. I don't like jewelry. The only accessory I've worn in the last month or so was the splint on my finger after surgery.) Nothing was served by Mia's remarks. No one's life was made better. Naomi was humiliated in public for something she may or may not have done. And Mia went around with that stupid, beatific smile pretending she'd been a saint. Clearly, she wasn't. If Mia's gossip was accurate, a saint would have stepped in and stopped the gift.

Naomi didn't deserve that and Mia can hop on any high horse she wants but she can't ride off on it because there's no escaping it.

In Mia's nonsense Tweets we see the story of journalism and so much more.

Mia is among the many idiots who think Nicholas Kristof is worth reading. He lies in print and he buys women (to save them!). Grow a brain.

More importantly, if you speak to Mia (or the clan of women that have emerged around 'sensitive' but 'strong' Nicky K), they'll breathlessly go on about how much Nicky K cares.

He cares about no one but himself.

The world did not begin yesterday. I'm not 'magical' enough to play that game.

There is a history.

There's nothing brave about Kristof. He's a weak man and he's a weak writer. You'll see that when the White House next flips parties. Nicholas is a master suck-up -- explaining many of those Bush columns. What people are mistaking for 'strength' is Nicky K sucking up like he always does.

He's an idiot and he's a joke. Those pimping him only look stupid to those of us who can remember 24 hours before yesterday.

Mia is so deeply stupid.

The public option was not allowed, insurance didn't want it, whores for Barack made sure it was shut out of the public discourse.

Mia's not liar, she's just deeply unintelligent. (And Barack gave her son a job.) That's why she thought war was the answer in Sudan and agitated for that over and over.

She's not about peace. People have this image of her as a hippie. She's not. She's not even a good Catholic if that means heeding the Pope. (Unlike 'peaceful' Mia, the Pope says no to war on Syria.)

(For those who think it's off sides to bring up 'good Catholic,' I have defended Mia for ever and a day on her anti-abortion stance noting that she will provide religious reasons for her stance. It's funny, on abortion she listens to the pope but on war she doesn't.)

Today, she's being nothing but a little (old) whore for Barack and she'll be treated here like any other whore for Barack.

It was never going to be universal health care from Barack. Learn his state record, you foolish idiots. The public option was never going to be in it. The White House killed it. And not because of Republicans. You can stream The Young Turks addressing it here in real time.

Democrats need to grow up. The first step is stop gobbling the comfort food. You're not being challenged, your brain is atrophying and your spirit is in decay. When a suck-up like Nicky K starts being seen as worth reading, you're in a lot of trouble.

Mia needs to stop whoring. She's not informed enough to know the facts.

Others will see the whoring as lying and, in our industry, Mia is seen as one of the biggest liars in the world. The consensus is she lied about Woody Allen. The Vanity Fair piece that everyone's talking about -- and that she's so bemused by -- will do nothing to change that. The child involved, now an adult, finally speaks. But all anyone can talk about is who is the father of one of Mia's son?

That wasn't smart and Woody's supporters will run with it.

Should you take advice or guidance from Mia on matters of war and peace?

No. She lacks the basic intelligence to protect herself, how can she protect anyone else?

As for her fantastic claim that the shutdown is the Republican's fault, again, Mia, pull your blouse closed, your stupidity's showing.

Sequester is Barack. He wanted it. He proposed it. The two political parties then played a game of chicken to see who would blink first.

And while idiots like Mia work themselves into what resembles a sexual frenzy over who is to blame, smart people, people you should trust, tell you the truth. Here's Glen Ford (Black Agenda Report) doing just that:

The government shutdown battle is more like a Civil War reenactment than the real thing. A face-saving bargain will soon be struck, returning 825,000 furloughed federal employees to their jobs at wages that have been frozen for the past two years – not by the Republicans, but on President Obama’s orders. The clock has been stuck with both hands on “austerity” since Obama came fully out of the closet as a GOP fellow-traveler following the 2010 midterm elections. From that moment on, Republican-imposed gridlock has been the only barrier to Obama’s long-sought Grand Bargain to eviscerate entitlement programs. When the current theatrics are over, Obamacare will remain intact and the president will be back on his ever-rightward stride. The GOP will take Obama up on his offer, earlier this year, to cut Social Security and will probably be offered other bits and pieces of the social safety net in the interest of “shared sacrifice” and domestic peace.
In the interim, while the reenactors haul their cannons around the cow pasture, waiting for the rich people who call themselves “markets” to signal an end to the charade, rest assured that national security is sacrosanct.

Ford's told you the truth -- the hard truth -- throughout the last five years. There are not a lot of people who can make that claim. Another truth teller is Barry Grey (WSWS):

In an interview on day two of the partial shutdown of the US government, broadcast by the pro-business cable TV channel CNBC, President Barack Obama offered talks on cutting basic social programs such as Medicare and Social Security in return for Republican support for funding federal operations and raising the national debt ceiling.
Obama continued to reject any negotiations with House Republicans on a so-called “continuing resolution” to reopen the government that is tied to a delay in implementation of his health care overhaul. At the same time, he linked a “clean” funding bill to passage of legislation to raise the national debt ceiling before the current limit expires and the country goes into default, estimated by the Treasury Department for October 17.

Obama’s remarks added to mounting evidence that behind the appearance of partisan warfare in Washington, the two big business parties are planning to use a crisis produced by an extended government shutdown as a smokescreen for reaching a deal to impose historic attacks on the bedrock social programs left over from the New Deal and Great Society periods.
In the interview, Obama said he agreed on the need to continue eliminating “unnecessary” social programs and was ready to discuss cuts in “long-term entitlement spending.” He also said he would accept Republican demands that there be no increase in personal income tax rates.
“The Democrats have already said they are ready to reopen the government at funding levels the Republicans have set,” the president said. He was referring to the acceptance by Democrats in the House of Representatives of a funding level $42 billion lower than the previous Democratic proposal.

Thursday, October 03, 2013

Mia and the meanings for America