By Semperpapa
What is with former and current Presidents trying to be comedians?
Bill Clinton is calling for an international agency dedicated to policing the information appearing on the Internet. Sort of a Truth Ministry that would have the scope of analyzing what appears on blogs and come up with counter opinions. Funny!
And Clinton added that it should be a clearly impartial agency, fully transparent in its funding (just like the Obama administration?), with credibility like National Public Radio or the BBC, which is even funnier.
But probably the funniest part of Clinton's idea is that the US government should pair up with the United Nations in the founding of such agency. Yeah, because when I think of impartiality, the first thing that comes to mind is the United Nations!
I am sure that Slick Willie would love to have a leading role in such agency. Just think about it: he could have access to young women of multiple nationality, bolstering his diversity image, and at the same time come out publicly denouncing any wrong doing, backed by the unimpeachable international agency.
OK, I got my laugh for the day.
Just my thoughts!
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I agree that the idea of actual transparency transpiring is laughable -- and have been having a very entertaining discussion about the role of transparency as an ethical practice in business and in politics in my classroom. However, whatever any of us might think of any administration, Slick Willie isn't incorrect in his assertion that transparency would be ideal.
ReplyDeleteThe problem is...(*heavy sigh*)...no administration since Truman's has been able to resist the employment of a "totally secret, financially unaccountable private army at his personal disposal" -- including Clinton. (Quote from "Dismantling the Empire: America's Last Best Hope" by Chalmers Johnson.) So to suggest an international anything in this regard is hypocritical at best...and I'm not keen on international spying on individual blogs being an ideal anyway (look how well such tactics have played here in the U.S. since the so-called Patriot Act...*rolls eyes & sighs*)
I seriously -SERIOUSLY- wonder if, were the American people to demand a full accounting of the expenditures of the Pentagon, of the DoD (including DHS), the CIA, etc etc...if we would even concern ourselves with pondering the lack of transparency within the UN? We'd be too busy trying to square up stuff in our own backyard...which is what we *should* be doing in the first place.
So while it may be funny in its seeming impossibility...we (regardless of political party affiliations and "likes/dislikes") should be demanding transparency from those we elect.