Broaden yourself beyond bird-watching and try the exciting new hobby, fascist-watching...
by James K. Sayre
In the back of the last two issues of The Bird Watcher's Digest, there were articles that suggested the filling your car's trunk with a variety of natural history guides, including books on variously, insects, mammals, reptiles, wild flowers, shrubs, trees and even rocks and minerals and geology. All to equip you for any natural history questions of identification or understanding which might come up on your driving bird-watching field trips. The articles were trying to broaden the horizons of many traditional bird-watchers, who often watch only birds, and ignore other life forms.
This is all well and good, but I have a modest suggestion on how bird-watchers can really broaden their horizons: by getting into the exciting new world of fascist-watching. Fascists have been springing up in 21st century America like wild mushrooms after a heavy spring rainstorm. Actually, fascist-watching is very easy; you don't need any binoculars, spotting scopes or field guides; you don't even have to go outdoors at all; you simply turn on your cable or satellite-fed television set and you will see many fascists, squawking and screaming, fussing and fuming, sliming and smearing, jiving and lying. These fascists can be often spotted on three major corporate propaganda channels, Fox, MSNBC and CNN, which masquerade as "news" channels. If you care to go further afield (so to speak) you may visit some of the many so-called "religious" channels, which are mostly just spewing christo-fascist intolerance and hate for any and all that don't agree with their every pronouncement... If this doesn't satisfy your urges for fascist-watching, you can always turn to CSPAN most any afternoon and listen to Ms. Dana Perino, the cute new blonde secretary for the fascist Liar-in-Chief, El Supremo Busho.
As you will soon discover, there are many different kinds of fascists to be seen, beard, identified on television and then added to your "life list." Christo-fascists, fearmongering-fascists, corporatist-fascists, imperial-fascists, neocon-fascists and war-fascists. Seen 'em, identify 'em, collect their images, take some field notes and soon you will be an expert fascist watcher. You may even spot a clucking chickenhawk or two. Then you can give 'em "the bird"...
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