"That's what Democrats do, Jimmy!"
Sorry, Ava and I are still working on our piece. It's interesting. We thought we had a topic. And we do. The general topic is the same and our references are the same. But when we write, we figure out what we're covering and our view on it. We discover that as we go along. My point?
We may be done with THE VANGUARD here. There was so much whoring and so much lying from them last week. But worst of all was the rank hypocrisy. X lied! But X wasn't on her own show. She was on another woman's show. And X couldn't lie if the host of the other show didn't let her lie. But the host is a piece of trash, honestly, that Zac and Gavin worship. So they pretend. I'm f**king sick of it.
And I'm sick of the fact that for us to address THE VANGUARD, we have to spend hours on research because they never do. Zac makes up whatever s**t he wants and pretends like that's okay. We have to fact check him. I'm sick of his damn lies. And I'm sick of his little 'jokes' that are homophobic -- him talking about not knowing 'gay guys' last week. I'm a sick of the misogyny -- "snatch," really, that's your political contribution for the week? I'm sick to hell of it.
We started writing this at noon and as I type right now it is 10:55. Now, granted, we've had to walk away repeatedly.
It was nothing but a string of curse words in sentence after sentence from us and we'd say, "We need to step back." And we'd walk away. Do something else for an hour or two and then try to return and be a little less explosive and potty mouthed.
Before we started the piece, it wasn't an issue. THE VANGUARD really wasn't an issue. But as we started playing with the building blocks of our latest piece, we realized that THE VANGUARD offered nothing but rank hypocrisy all last week. Excuse me. It also offered non-stop lies and idiotic opinions that were stupid because Zac never bothers to learn a thing before opening his damn mouth.
I had one thing I intended to call THE VANGUARD out on and only one thing -- and we haven't gotten to it yet. It'll be in the conclusion. But that was it. Ava and I had watched three segments of THE VANGUARD last week and, as we wrote, we'd talk about a topic and then be like, "Wait, remember when . . ."
That program did an awful job. I'm tired of being nice, I'm tired of being kind.
We note Randi Rhodes in the piece. What she told Patti Smith in 2004? That's how I feel about THE VANGUARD right now. And I don't think they're able to change. I also don't think Zac and Gavin will be buddies for too much longer. What we're focusing on in the conclusion -- when we get around to writing it -- goes to trickery and deceit. I would hope Gavin wouldn't be on board with that and I'm appalled that Zac is so damn stupid that he makes these statements -- these self-indictments against himself -- without ever grasping it.
I don't know if we're finishing it tonight. Whenever we do finish it, we'll have to a do a serious edit because it's far too long. And it's going to be long even after an edit. Right now? You've got Jimmy Dore, Cornel West, Marianne Williamson, DUE DISSIDENCE, Craig Pasta and CONVO COUCH, THE VANGUARD, Krystle, Kyle, Bri-Bri, Sabby Sabs, the historical realities of the Green Party, the historical realties of post-Watergate fixes and so much more.
It is honestly too much. I don't have the time to give hours to writing pieces. We have tried to respect the strikes and haven't covered new streaming or TV scripted programming since the strikes began. But next week, we're doing an album review. We'll go to music because I do not have the time to give for this kind of nonsense -- and nonsense and lies is all THE VANGUARD offered last week.
Oh, a number of e-mails asked about "Flashback: Ava and C.I. on the reality of 2008." Jim posted that. He did it for a reason. He addresses it -- it's already written -- in his "Jim's World" for THIRD. A number of you are asking about not being able to read it because you were presented with a warning by BLOGGER/BLOGSPOT. That warning is gone. You can read it. You should have been able to have read it the moment it posted, which is the point of Jim's column.
Nobody suggest an album review, by the way. If we make it our media piece, we know which album will be dealing with -- it's one everyone's been wrong about. They don't understand the technology required and utilized during the recording of it (several years ago) and they also don't understand how it got cleaned up for release. It was shelved for years and there was good reason for that. So we know what we'll cover next week if we step away from the sewage that is YOUTUBE.
