A month ago, Sean Hannity said he'd be moving out of New York as soon as he could manage it.
Here's Stewart's take on it back then.
So I'm just wondering: a rich guy like Hannity can make a move at pretty much the drop of a hat. So where is he now? Did he leave? Or is this another solid example of bullshit outrage that pops up with annoying regularity? Alec Baldwin said he'd move to France or whatever if Shrub got reelected. Limbaugh said he'd move to Costa Rica if Obama got reelected.
At what point do we stop purposely crankin' it up to 11 every time some jagoff politician says something silly or nasty or straight up stoopid? Y'know, if you can just kinda keep your cool, you're more likely to find a decent solution for the problem and/or resolution of the point of contention. And yet we keep crankin' it up. It almost seems like it could maybe perhaps be deliberate.
So I'm also wondering: who might benefit from keeping us so riled up that we spend all our time and effort beatin' on each other, instead of working together to figure out what to do about whatever problem some Congress Critter / Press Poodle / Bidness Crook tells us to be pissed off about.
Here's what I learned from a mentor fairly early in my working life:
I don't care if you guys go for long walks in the moonlight holding hands, and I don't care if you plan to murder each other after lunch; but as long as you're cashing the fuckin' paychecks, I expect you to work the fuckin' problem.
Here's Stewart's take on it back then.
So I'm just wondering: a rich guy like Hannity can make a move at pretty much the drop of a hat. So where is he now? Did he leave? Or is this another solid example of bullshit outrage that pops up with annoying regularity? Alec Baldwin said he'd move to France or whatever if Shrub got reelected. Limbaugh said he'd move to Costa Rica if Obama got reelected.
At what point do we stop purposely crankin' it up to 11 every time some jagoff politician says something silly or nasty or straight up stoopid? Y'know, if you can just kinda keep your cool, you're more likely to find a decent solution for the problem and/or resolution of the point of contention. And yet we keep crankin' it up. It almost seems like it could maybe perhaps be deliberate.
So I'm also wondering: who might benefit from keeping us so riled up that we spend all our time and effort beatin' on each other, instead of working together to figure out what to do about whatever problem some Congress Critter / Press Poodle / Bidness Crook tells us to be pissed off about.
Here's what I learned from a mentor fairly early in my working life:
I don't care if you guys go for long walks in the moonlight holding hands, and I don't care if you plan to murder each other after lunch; but as long as you're cashing the fuckin' paychecks, I expect you to work the fuckin' problem.
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