Welcome...and initial guidelines...

This blog will be used in the spring of 2008 by 80+ students at Drexel University to investigate the effects of Iraq on culture and the reverse. Our goal will be to better understand why the US is in Iraq, and to question whether literature can help us on this journey.

Weekly plans and other materials will always be posted in Vista, not this blog. So go to Bb Vista to get the discussion prompts and other instructions.

I intend this blog to manage our discussions and track our collective investigation.

You should have received an email from me inviting you to become a contributor to this blog. The email was sent Monday afternoon to your official Drexel email address.

Sunday, April 20, 2008

Iraqi War's effect on American Pop Culture

First of all, we're living in the so-called 'information age' and it seems to me that whoever holds the most information or knows the most stuff about Iraq and politics and all that stuff nowadays seems to be the man on TV. I know it's been said before, but the only reason the the Daily Show and the Colbert Report are popular TV shows is because they have a plethora of material to pick from because of an unpopular president and an unpopular war that resulted from the horrible catastrophe that was 9/11. The daily show was on air before 9/11, but it wasn't nearly as popular because they had no easy targets. If the war in Iraq was a popular one, they probably wouldn't be making too many jokes because our president's plans would be working. But since they're not working, it's a free-for-all to see who can have the most extreme jokes without going too over-the-edge for the best ratings, and it just makes me want to turn off my TV. I am so sick of hearing about Iraq and President Bush and the upcoming election that I am pretty much past the point of thinking about voting at all. And it's all because of the bullshit that's on TV. Everyone in the TV industry is a liberal, except for those guys over at Fox news, and they take the opportunity to put as much dumb crap criticizing everything that's bad about America on TV, and the worst part is that these dumb people believe it. Perfect Example: Frank TV. I watch a lot of TBS because they show Seinfeld and Family Guy and the Office, but they always advertise for Frank TV, who is this fat asshole who dons a President Bush outfit and makes jokes that are now five years old. Who would watch that shit? Not me. And now I'm just starting' to get mad so that's that.

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