Given Jon Stewart already went in on this, I didn’t think I was going to follow. But since the issue in all of its idiocy continues to smolder, I thought I’d share the film of the poetry performance that Fox news has been attempting to use as the slanderous sequel to their birthers bash.Though I laugh at Jon Stewart’s evisceration of Fox News’ hypocrisy and am tempted to launch into a tirade of my own, I’m mostly just bummed out by the many manufactured debates that drown out the very real issues that our society faces.
Like our collective obsession with Two and a Half Men drowning out discourse about the two and half very real wars in which we are currently engaged. Or an ongoing debate over whether Fox News can understand poetry that prevents us from discussing what we are going to do about the dreams and despair that these poems portray.
All of this makes this song feel all the more apt.
I Have A Dream, Common
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