Waka Waka For National Self Interest, Good Journalism, and Worship

The Garrett Ashley Mullet Show

For some reason or other, my kids have been singing the 2010 FIFA World Cup song around the house as of late. They say it has something to do with memes. In any event, this fact, regardless its causes, led me to look up the song and listen to it in full.

Shakira's "Waka Waka (This Time For Africa)" gets its name from Pigeon Cameroonian for "Do It," as well as the host country and continent for the 2010 games, which just so happened to be South Africa.

That has me thinking. Why is cheering your own country on okay when it comes to soccer tournaments, but not so much when it comes to it pursuing successfully economic or national security self-interest?

Speaking of national self-interest, the G7 nations and the EU have agreed to place price caps on oil as a means to curb Russian profits. Never mind that price caps and ceilings do not work, but create black markets, as well as artificial shortages and surpluses of goods. The brilliant minds of the world's leading nations are just sure, it seems, that the answer to the price of oil is not to just produce more of it in places like the United States.

But while we're on the topic of supply and demand, and what will or won't be paid for, Meta has put out a statement that they may remove news entirely from Facebook if the U.S. Congress passes a controversial piece of legislation related to journalism. Apparently, they are not enthusiastic about being required to compensate corporate media cartels for links shared. That, or, as I regard as more likely, this is a backdoor for still more Big Tech censorship of the kind that Twitter has just recently been both stopping and exposing in-house, to much Leftist consternation.

As Douglas Murray and Matt Taibbi successfully argue in the most recent iteration of the Munk Debates, 'Don't trust mainstream media.' The reason being that Democrats in the U.S., as well as Leftists around the world, have consistently found safe harbor in the corporate media in the U.S. and the West more broadly, in part due to too much consolidation and centralization, and in part because of rather cozier relationships between governments and the journalists who are supposed to be providing oversight of them.

It seems to me as though our corporate media could take more cues from the Georgia sheepdog who recently fought and killed eight coyotes in an epic defense of his owner and sheep. But the way our establishment news institutions carry on, they'd sooner protect the coyotes than the sheep in many cases, so long as the sheep smell bad and the coyotes pay better.

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