I swear, the liberal media really lights me up sometimes.
I was watching tv with some family this evening, and we thought we'd check out the financial channels to see if someone was covering the current financiapocalype. For some reason, all CNBC was showing were financial lifestyle tips on how to get out of debt, or educating people on their financial rights. bah! but eventually we found Fox News which had a special report on what had caused the current financial crisis.
Oh Thank You Fox News! as they repeatedly informed me, the background workings of this crisis were so complex "that not even a room full of Ph.Ds could understand it", so they weren't even going to try. Excellent. Spoon-feed me more David Asman!
As it turns out, this mess is totally Obama's fault. Evidently Obama had once represented some totally evil community group (ACORN) in a disenfranchisment law suit. And since ACORN practically forced banks to issue loans to these completely disreputable lower class citizens (they wanted to be home owners - the nerve!), Fox News totally proves that its all Obama's fault.
and they must be telling the truth, since they keep showing all these sources from the Wall Street Journal. hey... isn't the Wall Street Journal owned by the same people who own Fox News? I don't know.. Fox News certainly didn't mention it.. it must not be important.
oh, where have you gone Noam Chomsky?!!!
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"This is so complex a roomfull of PHD's couldn't understand it," is code for: "American attitudes toward money are to blame, and every one of our viewers is implicated."
Now stop trying to think for yourself.
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and that is how I got a headache.
Posted by fratchling | 13. Øíjen 2008 20:06
Posted on 13. Øíjen 2008 20:06
ACORN hooked me up with a full percentage point discount off my first loan when I was less than a year out of college and didn't make enough money to afford the house I bought. If I hadn't received that loan I would have had to pay a reasonable market rate based on a statistical consideration of my risk category.
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there you have it. ACORN helping college students become home owners! The NERVE of them!
Posted by Ryan | 17. Øíjen 2008 10:38
Posted on 17. Øíjen 2008 10:38