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Let’s put Balloon Boy to bed

By Brent Budowsky - 10/20/09 10:54 AM ET

This has got to be the most ridiculous waste of everyone's time by a media that seems incapable of having a serious discussion of serious issues for serious people.

Someday this matter will find a place in the Museum of Natural History about our inability to have intelligent debates on urgent matters while engulfing ourselves in freak-show media and loony-tune television spectacles of zero importance.

Source:
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/media/63867-lets-put-balloon-boy-to-bed

Comments (10)

Really, Brent. Instead of talking about importance of public service with a tired spouse after work, community organization activities with neighbors and enlisting into volunteers' projects directed by Michelle Obama and Hollywood, Americans spent countless hours watching a balloon land and valor of sheriff deputies bravely attacking it with axes to prevent it from taking off again. That primitive balloon reminded me of Obama's health care plan with public option in payload compartment. It's full of hot air and empty promises, it only flew because it didn't have a boy in it and the whole thing turned out to be a hoax. Hmm… maybe there is something to it, Brent?BY Bzdashek on 10/20/2009 at 14:26

Brent's sense of humor knows no bounds. While he claims that a spectacle is wasting our time, Brent himself was joined by thousands of other sycophant journalists who never looked into Barack Obama. When others did they were labeled and attacked. When Communists take over a society two essential elements they do away with are God and the truth. Here's an article by the liberal Richard Cohen of the Washington Post. Richard Cohen was an ardent Bush attacker so his credentials as a sycophant journalist are assured in bond. However, he asks a relevant question, overall, what has Obama done, what is he capable of, and seemingly predicts some failure for Obama. As you read it, remember, this is a guy who loves Obama. I don't but I found some truths in the article. In effect, Richard Cohen portrays Obama as everyone's balloon boy. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/printpage/?url=http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/10/20/does_anyone_know_barack_obama_98780.html If, as the saying goes, the perfect is the enemy of the good, then Barack Obama is his own worst enemy. That becomes clear in the upcoming HBO documentary "By the People: The Election of Barack Obama," which is the product of many months of behind-the-scenes access to Obama during the presidential campaign. It reveals — you will be surprised to learn — that Barack Obama is pretty close to the most perfect person you will never get to know.BY Robert Rosencrans on 10/20/2009 at 16:27

On the contrary, a good writer would have parodied Michael HeeneBY Farnsworth on 10/21/2009 at 00:31

People probably ought to stop being interested in comedy, too, in times like these, what with the sky falling.Meanwhile, reading and listening and viewing under my anti-acorn umbrella, I read and hear and see plenty about healthcare reform, President Obama's LBJ-like activities in Afghanistan, and so forth.BY Barry Schwartz on 10/21/2009 at 00:42

Let me correct a previous posting error with my entire posting…On the contrary, a good writer would have parodied Michael HeeneBY Farnsworth on 10/21/2009 at 00:47

My post has been censored. This is an example of what we will be facing. Stand up and be counted!BY Farnsworth on 10/21/2009 at 01:07

Brent, why do you think this silly balloon story is getting more press coverage than Obama's Nobel Peace Prize coronation?BY Bzdashek on 10/21/2009 at 02:00

This Heene fellow should get a Nobel Prize for fiction.BY Cajone Michaels on 10/21/2009 at 09:22

i'm sorry but i must disagree about the importance of the story. in these eyes, it's quite a metaphor for what's going on in America at this very moment:Father convinces Boy to play a game but does not let him know that it's all an elaborate deception to get rich quick to feed Father's relentless appetite for attention. Boy plays along. Everything goes according to plan…and then doesn't. That night, Father then reiterates to the Boy that it's very important to continue to play the game. On national television the next morning, Boy's brain begins to process the paradox between the truth which would harm his Father or continue playing along, which would be telling a lie.Boy has the only reaction that his 6 year old brain and body can muster when confronted with such paradox:He throws up…twice.I think dear little Falcon speaks for us all in the silent majority in America, especially those in the new generation who will be burdened by their 'Fathers' who continue to play silly games filled with deceptions instead of simply owning up to the truth that it was all a hoax.BY tristero on 10/21/2009 at 09:27

** Let’s put Balloon Boy to bed ** This heading has been approved by Rep. Barney Frank (D, MA)BY Bzdashek on 10/21/2009 at 23:33

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