The frivolousness and madness of the American news media

There are wars going on and thousands of  atrocities committed on human beings and thousands more human beings dying all around the world because America and America's billionaires fund, arm and train the world's "rebels" to wage civil wars against their countries' governments for political advantage of those pulling the strings in the USA. Those who have willfully placed blinders on their eyes will never blame America for all the foreign policy misadventures that nation deliberately creates which results in untold number of deaths in far flung foreign lands. Such people are happy to involve themselves in the kind of controversies noted below because dwelling on other issues like their country's foreign policy boondoggles is migraine making and Americans would prefer not to know the truth of the harm done by those they have elected to high office.

Dana Milbank writing at WashingtonPost:
....I’m just back from a week out of the country, and it appears I missed some major happenings.

Political news sites report a significant development in the Pajama Boy controversy (involving a promotion for Obamacare) and the “Duck Dynasty” flap. There’s apparently a new scandal, as well, over the Obama family’s failure to attend church on Christmas. Then there’s the brouhaha about a church in California putting a likeness of Trayvon Martin in its Christmas manger.

From the Drudge Report, meanwhile, I learned the naked truth about two other incidents: a Louisville man who ran through a bingo hall with his pants down yelling “Bingo!” and police in Portland, Ore., who used a sandwich to convince an unclothed man not to jump off of a building.

According to ABC News, the man reportedly requested a cheeseburger but eventually settled for turkey and bacon.

That the headlines are about pajamas and bingo is both good and bad. Good, because it means we have no crisis during this holiday season; Congress is in recess, the president is on the beach, and there is no imminent standoff in Washington. Bad, because we’re letting ourselves be distracted again.

In the weeks before the 9/11 attacks in 2001, President George W. Bush was on his ranch in Texas, the big news was about shark attacks, and nobody connected the terrorists’ dots. This time, there’s more than just the theoretical possibility of a crisis to worry about.

On Saturday, 1.3 million unemployed Americans were kicked off unemployment benefits. And if our vacationing lawmakers don’t do something about it when they return, millions more will follow. The matter is getting less attention than Phil Robertson of “Duck Dynasty,” but it’s a real crisis for those affected and a disgrace for the rest of us.....