PhysioProf Speaks His Mind.

Just as I was sitting here in a puddle of my own sweat wondering how-oh-how am I gonna get a late-afternoon post together AND give myself that at-home pedicure and wax I had promised myself, a mysterious stranger slipped something over the transom...


From PhysioProf:

Speaking of journamalism, while I was in the gym this morning, I watched some of a show (as much as I could stand without ripping the arm handles off the machine I was working out on) called "Morning Joe". It seems that the guy who runs the show is called Joe Scarboro, and he has a female sidekick called Mica something-or-other. Here are a few thoughts that ran through my head while I watched. (I'll leave out the vast majority of the "are you fucking kidding me!?"s.)

(1) The mode of verbal discourse on this show was like a group of 14-year-old high-school girls sitting in one of their bedrooms giggling and fawning over each other and figuring out which of their other friends is cool and which is icky. Joe and his sidekick made all sorts of little oblique inside references to personal characteristics of one another with lots of eye rolls and giggles.

Jesus Fucking Christ! This is what passes for a news show!? It was like fucking Tiger Beat on teevee.

(2) The corporatist agenda is so transparent, it's hard to imagine that anyone sees these jokers as anything other than shameless shills. Joe and his sidekick were discussing the economic outlook with their "economic correspondent at the Stock Exchange" (i.e., another 14-year-old sitting on the edge of the lace-trimmed bed in the room with pictures of Scott Baio on the wall).
The question they were addressing was what the Fed is going to do: (a) keep lowering interest rates so that "the economy grows", but at the expense of "inflation", or (b) don't lower interest rates, which keeps "inflation" in check, but at the expense of "growth".

Let's analyze what this economic jargon really means to real people, and then see if you can guess what 14-year-old Scott Baio fan thought was the best fucking thing to do for the "economy".

Option (a): "Keep lowering interest rates so the economy grows, but inflation rises". This means keep floating cheap money to the already-rich so they can continue feeding their compulsive gambling addiction to the financial markets, while poor and middle-class people on fixed incomes keep paying more and more for the shit they need to survive.

Option (b): "Keep interest rates steady to stabilize inflation, but at the expense of growth". This means make the rich stand pat with the grotesque wealth they already have wrested over the last decade from the pockets of the poor and middle-class, so that these poor and middle-class people can survive on their fixed incomes and the piddly wealth they still have left.

Do I need to tell you what was best for "the economy"?

(3) Piece de resistance: Jonah "Doughy Fucking Pantload" Goldberg was "interviewed" about his "analysis" of current Republican electoral prospects and his "book", "Liberal Fascism". I won't even go near the latter, as it has been necropsied at length by my blogosphere betters. I will say a few words, however, about the former.

Joe and his sidekick asked Doughload why he thought Republican Party electoral prospects are so completely, utterly, totally, gobsmackingly fucked. Doughpants said, and I swear on a stack of "Liberal Fascism" I am not shitting you, "Conservatives are victims of their own success".

Conservatives are Victims of Their Own Success!!??!! The mind boggles.

No more "TeeVee News" for me, I tell you what.

Methinks PhysioProf needs a blog.