AIG and Angry Bob

I'll readily admit that I would sooner see Dysentery coupled with Cherry Garcia before Angry Bob and AIG, but in today's hysterical times the line between reality and fiction is so unbelievably blurred that you need Dr. Manhattan's superior vision in order to see it. The fallout from Wall Streets risky business and rapacious greed has brought the country, its elected officials, and evens its comedians to their knees; consequently, making AIG (Annuities in Guano)and its odious, ever-so vacuous gaggle of henchmen about as popular with the American taxpayer as Audit Tuesday. Whenever tragedy and idiocy strike at the heart (assuming we didn't sell it to China) and soul (assuming we didn't sell it to Saudi Arabia) of the American polity, comedians have always raced to the occasion as the white knights of satire who are armed only with sarcasm. Of course today’s comedian is a d-student, foulmouthed, unoriginal frat boy/sonority girl, catapulting to fame with their phenomenally hackneyed and breathtakingly insipid observations that make Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian seem like Meryl Streep and Susan Sarandon. However, one brave mordant mastodon with more wit than chins proved that sharp-edged satire is more relevant and even more sorely needed now than ever before.

Instead of focusing on the 163 billion in monies that snakes on private planes misappropriated in given away willy nilly to Henry Paulson's old chums at Goldman Sachs, certain individuals in the sexy, downloadable realm of new journalism (individuals who wikipedia J-School) would rather you misdirect your populist outrage and shoot the merry messenger. It seems as though Jason Jinkins, a reporter with the Huffington Post, posted an article entitled "CNN CALLER SAYS AIG EXECS SHOULD BE SHOT" – where he took what Angry Bob said in jest as something sincere, failing to see the painfully obvious humor behind it, not to mention the fact that Angry Bob has been billed as a COMEDIAN on Rick Sanchez's program on CNN. Moreover, the man's first name is freakin’ Angry! So either he's a COMEDIAN or his parents never referred to the Big Book of Baby Names, but I am going to have to go with the former for 1000, Alex. Worse yet, the hack with a high speed connection has completely and utterly silenced Angry Bob from offering an explanation and even flagging all of his comments on the blog itself. Not even the E isengruppen Nazi Germany death squad could silence Angry Bob, so I am really curious to see how some talentless, humorless amateur with a Mac Air plans to do so. Im short, I am downright appalled to see the Huffington Post– one of the last vestiges of informed debate and unbiased reporting–besmirch Angry Bob by doing the very thing it so vehemently lambasts– twisting the facts and turning non stories into news.