American Idiot - Watches FOX "news"

Sometimes the posts just write themselves. While considering how to present this post from Glenn Greenwald about FOX "news" and their deliberate misrepresentation of the facts about the War Criminals' Protection Act, I checked up on our comment thread below. h/t Nigel Elliot for the link to Green Day's American Idiot. The lyrics so suit this story.

"American Idiot"
Don't want to be an American idiot.
Don't want a nation under the new media
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mind fuck America.

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alien nation.
Where everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
For that's enough to argue.

Well maybe I'm the faggot America.
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda.
Now everybody do the propaganda.
And sing along to the age of paranoia.

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alien nation.
Where everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
For that's enough to argue.

Don't want to be an American idiot.
One nation controlled by the media.
Information age of hysteria.
It's calling out to idiot America.

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alien nation.
Where everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
For that's enough to argue.

I was thinking about a video post anyway, since we haven't had one for a while, and this is one of my favourite groups singing a kickass song. And as far as the connection to the Greenwald article...

"The President now possesses a defining authoritarian power -- to detain and imprison people for life based solely on his say-so, while denying the detainee any opportunity to prove his innocence.

But for those who rely on Fox News for their information about what the government is doing, not only do they not know that, they think the opposite is true."

I would say it's pretty obvious.

TAGS: Green Day, American Idiot, Media Bias, Propaganda, Glenn Greenwald