Take one Bill O’Reilly. Price: $9 million dollars (not including lecture dough and knick knack sales.)
Divide by the 2005 median household income of $46,326.
You get 194 full-time, salaried Americans, and some "walking around" change.
Which means for the price of one BillO, you could pay a living wage to 194 smart, focused, passionate, well-spoken progressive bloggers and still have enough left over to throw one hell of a War on Christmas Party.
Rush Limbaugh?
$30 million
That's 647 Blue Gals, Shakespeare’s Sisters and Cannablogs, with enough left for a Prius.
Punkin' Haid Russert?
Rumored at around $5 million.
That’s 107 Steve Gilliards, Spockos and Brilliantnessess at Breakfasts. And after you’ve cut them all their checks, you’ll find enough in the sofa cushions for a fat down payment on a lovely Chicago four-plus-one.
And the list of whinging, infotainment Centrist rock stars and Propaganda Catapulting Mole Rat Moguls just goes on and on and on.
So when you hear the Media crying poor mouth…
When you see them make the sad-clown-face and turn out dusty pockets as they explain why they can only afford to look up skirts, under beds and lovingly into Dubya’s unblinking brown eye, but not get up into the grills of the powerful, or look over the horizon, or generally walk point for our for democracy, remember there is plenty of money in the system.
Oodles and oceans and goo-gobs of money.
It's just that the people who sow and reap in the Big Media Vineyard are not remotely interested in underwriting anything in the service or Truth, Justice and the American Way.
You want a revolution?
Render a Bobo Brooks, a Tom Friedman and a Joe Klein down for their cash, per diems and sweet, sweet parking spaces and buy the talents of 100 sharp, knives-out, wonktacular, fire-eating bloggers for one year.
And then step out of the way.
Bang.
Instant revolution.
7 comments:
This is the revolution, now, and thanks for the linkage.
render- v To melt down or to extract by melting. or, to treat so as to convert into industrial fats and oils or fertilizer.
applied to Bobo, Friedman et al, isn't that redundant?
They already dissolved into the gooey sludgiment to get their fistful.
Well, yeah... But...
O'reilly is so much more photogenic than Shakes that...
Uhh... Ehh.. Yeah, I got nuthin'.
Seriously, though,
as long as someone like Chris Cillizza can say this: "Democrats still know they need to prove to the American public that they can keep them just as safe as Republicans can.",
you have to hope for a sanity test to be implemented before more outright retards are offered jobs in the press.
This is the major problem with U.S. journalism:
Republican pronouncements on all things martial are taken at face value.
As if merely -saying- you're
"tough" is the same as -being- "tough".
At the same time, Democrats are scorned for, you know, trying to think things through, provide evidence for their assertions and so on and so forth.
Nope, no double standard!
OT, anybody else see where Tom Tancredo says that if HE was bygodelected, he'd threaten the Saudis with nuking Mecca and Medina?
I couldn't have been happier if a video had surfaced of Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin having a three-wayer with a handsome, studly, German Shepherd. :o)
I mean we NEED these jingo-jackoffs flat-out REPRESENTIN' that they are as crazy as Steve's "shithouse rats", to the voters. :o)
Thought-processes of Lynwood K. Peckerhead (with his video collection of every Chuck Norris movie ever made):
"Uhhhh...Tom; aint that gonna kick pump prices up to the point where my little made-in-amurka Dodge truck (the one with duallies on the back, and the capacity to tow Donald Trump's yacht) will cost me a payment ($412.37) for one fill-up?
Plus, NASCAR will have to shorten Talladega to 100 miles, and if me'n Mrytle June stop for a quickie on some Alabama dirt road, then Dale Jr. might get the "checkered flag" before I do, if you catch my meanin'...heh-heh.
Kin you lighten up on that nookie-talk? It makes me'n the rest of the guys in "The Nathan Bedford Forrest" bowling league kind of nervous. Think what it's doin' to the Saudis."
:o)
I'd take that deal.
At the risk of repeating myself and being a mere hack sequel writer?
I love you, Drifty.
When you see them make the sad-clown-face and turn out dusty pockets as they explain why they can only afford to look up skirts, under beds and lovingly into Dubya’s unblinking brown eye, but not get up into the grills of the powerful, or look over the horizon, or generally walk point for our for democracy, remember there is plenty of money in the system.
Biting the hand that feeds them? Never, and never think that the threat of that isn't wielded expressly, subtly, by implication and any one of a dozen other ways.
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