5/15/2007

In Brief: All the Little White Girls Everywhere:
Here's how CNN's American Morning started its 7 a.m. hour this morning, the top story, before wildfires and floods and war and other apocalyptic events. The pseudo-Soledad anchor, Kiran Chetry, said, picture of a cute little white girl, eyes beaming in that cute little white girl way, floating above Chetry:

"Some big news coming out of Portugal. Just within the past hour, police are saying they have a suspect in the case of missing 4-year-old Madeleine McCann. Madeleine snatched from her bed nearly two weeks ago while on vacation with her family. Phil Black following the story from Madeleine's home town of Rothley, England. Hi, Phil."

So, let's see if we got this straight: with no American white girls kidnapped recently beyond the typical "Dad wants more time with his kids, legal decisions be damned," now the news networks are giving us the news of a British white girl. Who was kidnapped in Portugal. Are you fucking kidding? Top of the news?

No, really, and, c'mon, if we're opening up this fucker to children kidnapped around the world, when are we gonna see some faces of kids kidnapped and forced to become child soldiers? When's JK Rowling and Simon fucking Cowell gonna put up some reward money for them? Oh, that's right. Their eyes don't beam quite as brightly against their skin, their uncivilized third world faces not so glowingly sad.

More later. Really.