Oscars

Well I did sleep about 5 hours, but I usually like to get at least 8. I made the mistake of watching CNN last night before I went to sleep. No it wasn't the bombs dropping or the footage of the 18 or so people having a war rally in Concord, it was the footage of Michael Moore speaking at the Academy Awards two nights ago. I watched the Oscars and I saw the inspiring speech that Mr. Moore gave representing his fellow non-fiction filmmakers. He got a standing ovation while walking to the stage, but after a few moments of speaking there was definitely some heckling going on.

In all fairness I would say that there were several dozen people out of the few thousand that were booing while he spoke. We all heard it. Hey if you're gonna talk shit, be prepared to get some thrown back. That was expected. What I didn't expect was how CNN ran the story the next day. Every 15 minutes they showed the speech with the volume of the booing almost louder than the speech. I had videotaped the Oscars and I compared the two. CNN definitely turned up the volume of the hecklers and you could specifically hear one guy. It was almost like they stuck microphones on the hecklers before the show.

CNN made it look like he got booed off the stage when in fact the large majority of the audience gave him plenty of adulation. For Pete's sake, if CNN can't even cover the Academy Awards without showing bias, how the hell are we to believe what they show us from the Middle East? Obviously I must be living in some kind of fantasy world. I'm going back to getting all my news from the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. At least I can laugh with the news instead of at it.

Forever rambling,

Fat Mike