I’d have started hating Fox News today. I accidentally came across this video:
This is the obituary that Fox News ran for Kurt Vonnegut on 12 April, 2007, the day after he died.
Kurt Vonnegut was an American hero and a literary giant. To sum up his life by saying that he was a washed-up has-been who even failed at suicide is to denigrate one of our national treasures. Forget journalistic integrity, Fox News has time and again displayed a complete and utter lack of respect for this nation, its history and foundational principles for short-term political gain for elitist conservatives who want to undermine anyone who disagrees with them.
Kurt Vonnegut is the Mark Twain of our time, and I will be damned if I will stand by silently and hear this brilliant, compassionate man run down by a piece of shit propaganda effort by devious assholes who don’t care about any one or any thing but pushing an agenda. Disrespecting this man is putting Fox on the wrong side of history. This is more proof that you can almost draw a straight line from the people who argued against abolishing slavery, women’s suffrage, civil rights for blacks, etc. Regardless of conservatives support of all of those things that their forebears fought, they are the inheritors of ignorance and thoughtlessness. Everyone’s a liberal when it’s safe, progressivism is appealing after the fight.
Here’s a much better way to remember this giant, this legend, this saint:
I loved this disheveled old man, and even though I never met him I miss him. We’re worse off without him. It makes me sad that my son will grow up in a word without this man.
Grace and Peace,
Jared
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