DAVID LETTERMAN CLOWNS BILL O'REILLY

This is a relatively old clip, but I like it because it perfectly sums up the difference between people who can still manage to be ignorant enough to support the Republican party/ this godawful war, and the people who have bothered to pay attention and form a coherant thought on the state of the world -compliments of G.W. Bush. The simple fact is, the Republican party insults our collective inteligence daily, by boiling down every single element of political discourse into a 3 or 4 word mindbogglingly oversimplified catch phrases. I.E. ""Winning the war in Iraq","War on Terror","Flip Flopper","Cut and Run" etc... Every single Republican talking point zooms past historical context, explaining ANYTHING in depth, and any kind of thoughtful investigation of the subject. -That is of course, when they're not just flat-out lying to us.
What in the fuck does -winning' the war in Iraq entail??? -Let alone winning the 'War on Terror'? What is the objective of these endeavors? -And at this point, can we even consider the best-case scenario, 'winning'? -After we've wasted over a TRILLION dollars, and thousands of American and innocent Iraqi civilian lives, fighting a war against people who never were a threat to us in the first place. All of this predicated on lies and oversimplified catch-phrases to whip us into a frenzy after 9/11? By the way, -just who has benefitted from all of this? What industries have recorded RECORD PROFITS since this war began? What could possibly be the upside of completely blowing every ounce of trust, integrity and respectablility with other countries of the world? How many allies do we have left? Wouldn't we be infinately more secure as a nation if we weren't universally feared, hated, and known as the country of greedy pillaging crusaders? I would tend to think that having the mutual respect and support of other nations in the world would go a thousand times further in our hopes of diffusing terrorism, than draining our national treasury and misusing our military for pointless exercises that only increase and promote more terrorism both domestically and abroad.
Sorry to go off on a fucking tangent here, but this stuff is really starting to piss me off. This shit has gone lightyears beyond watercooler conversations at work. This is ruining our country and our lives. It's depressing. I'm getting really sick of the endless delusion forced on us by our politicians and the lazy dickriding corporate media. Do what you can to educate yourself on what is really going on. We cannot survive another 8 years of Rudy Guiliani or god forbid, John 'Sellout Express' McCain.