The Daily Show has had a great week of really giving it to the hypocrite and stupids that is our leadership and press corps. Wednesday night, they provide a nice, easy to understand explanation on the Net Neutrality issue in their usual hilarious way. Thursday was TDS highlighting the Bush Administration hypocrisy on life as illustrated by his veto of the stem cell bill and the Iraq War.
Net Neutrality is the idea that a packet of data is to be treated neutrally by networks regardless of who its coming from and who its going to. It can be a trillion dollar company or some little girl selling pictures, its data, so its all the same.
The phone companies and ISPs want to create a second tier to the internet that provides a "higher" class of service. Now, this doesn't mean the service is actually better, it just means that they can charge all the companies out there to not do anything or give preference to their sites over others. The idea is say google, would pay a fee to insure traffic gets to and from them successfully. The fee could also has an effect of encouraging you to go to the site, or forcing you to. The end result is the "mom and pop" sites would be left out as only the big businesses could handle all the associated fees, which of course would be passed on the to consumer. This also has the effect of having these companies deciding what websites you can go to (based on who pays and who doesn't) rather then you deciding.
The whore for this bill is, of course, Alaska Republican Senator Ted Stevens. There isn't an idea he will not support if the money isn't right. As TDS illustrates, the man doesn't even know, much less understand, the internet, yet he is trying to pass a bill that would have massive consequences for its daily use. Its horrible horrible leadership, but then its Ted Stevens so what do expect?
Click here to get to the video and here to show support for Net Neutrality.
Thursday, Jon Stewart uses Bush's and Tony Snow's on words and actions to illustrate that for a man who values life, as he sure can be cavalier about it. Bush claimed he valued life when he vetoed the Stem Cell bill, a bill he obviously didn't bother to actually read since it proposed making use of cells that where going to be destroyed anyway. He was under some delusion that it would interfere with women who wanted to get pregnant. How that is has yet to be explained. Now compared to that you have Iraq where stats such as 30000 dead is not such a big deal.
Bush: I think it's important to promote a culture of life... A society where every being counts, every person matters.
Stewart: Every. Being. Counts. Every. Person. Matters.
Bush:: How many Iraq citizens have died in this war? Umm. I would say 30,000 more or less...
Stewart: Each one precious...
Click here to watch the video. Its worth the time.
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