last night's simpsons

Oft amusing, last night's season finale of The Simpsons was something else. Excoriating the press, government and most of all Fox, it was the most overtly political, and radical episode of broadcast television I've ever seen. Most compelling was Kent Brockman delivering this speech:

Friends, the press and the government are in bed together in an embrace so intimate and wrong they could spoon on a twin mattress and still have room for Ted Koppel.

Journalists used to question the reasons for war and expose abuse of power. Now, like toothless babies they suckle on the sugary teat of misinformation and poop it into the diaper we call the six-o'clock news.

Demand more of your government!

Demand more of your press!

A cartoon now offers the most prescient political and social commentary, and too often the only such insight. Such is the depth of decay of our culture.