George Burns once observed that it was too bad that the folks who really knew how to run this country were busy cutting hair and driving taxis. Given that tidbit, it’s easy to come up with a little ditty:
The meaning of life is clear,
I heard that in the barber’s chair.
And when woes of life trouble me,
I right away hail a taxi.
Barber or cabbie, today’s seer.
The reason that I though of this is because I happened to watch what passes for a news show on FOX News recently and I was startled by how little the host and hostess actually knew about the story they were discussing. And then, they brought on a guest who managed to totally distort the story, citing non-existent facts with absolute authority. Of course, there is no law against idiocy and mispresentatiion while reprehensible, is not illegal.
It truly is obvious,
What FOX reports,
FOX news distorts.
But the sad part is, there are no doubt plenty of viewers who will accept these distortions for the truth and serial liars like O’Reilly, Hannity and Beck will continue to mislead and misrepresent and the gullible will follow their lead.
Make enough racket, converts and mindless subjects,
And you make the stranges views the publics.
Citizen Poet 