Tuesday, February 03, 2004

Is it me or does it seem like whole Janet Jackson nipple slippage thing (Titgate?) getting more people in a hyperventilated tizzy more than this whole no-WMD in Iraq thing? Janet Jackson "accidentally" shows her breasts during the Superbowl and the whole country goes bonkers. The phones at radio talk shows are off the hook, the pundits are in full bloviate, the Man in the Street is being asked to express their outrage, and the Government swings into action as posses are even know being rounded up. Why this is an outrage! Dear God, won't somebody think of the children!

Yet the very same week, it's finally admitted that we just basically invaded a country for something we told everyone was there only to have to go "oops" and nobody cares. There's even speculation out there that the U.S. pretty much knew it several weeks after Baghdad fell and still nothing. Nor the fact that, yes Fox News, Bush did hype it and that for every report that supposedly said those WMD existed, there were equally as many reports saying yeah right. No phones are going off the hook on radio talk shows, no heads are rolling, no cries of "shame! hame!" no sense of outrage. Bush is agreeing to an investigation with all the enthusiasm of a hen-pecked husband having to take the trash out, congress is waiting for some link to be found linking Iraq to an old Arkansas land-deal before going into full outrage mode, and the press is too busy trying to figure out whether John Kerry got Botox or not to really deal with this issue. As for the American People, the Iraq War was so '03 and who cares because we won and it just proves we're the bestest country in the world. Besides, won't somebody think of the children?

And so I ask you, what's a worse outrage: Janet Jackson's boob or the President being one?

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