I can't believe I'm about to write this ...

but Kid Rock might not be an idiot. Check out the video from Fox News ...

Note: In true Fox News form, they don't give you what they say they will ... there's no embed code, so here's the link.

Of course, Fox News might be the only 'news' organization willing to give Kid Rock a venue to speak about politics, but I'm 100 percent sure that his ability to speak candidly and in a reasonable tone is accidental. There's no way they intended on a reasonable voice being heard anywhere their logo would be present - it's just not done.

Back to Kid Rock.

Of course I agree with his point that politicians are not currently interested in the job at hand as much as they are about making a career of it, and I agree with Kid Rock that both he and I are undereducated to be making a public statement about what government should be. But the point he makes that I am surprised to agree with him on is the one about the shift of people in this country to a more European way of life, as he calls it. Condos and smart cars, for short. Now, I don't think that condos and smart cars can adequately sum up a European life, or that they're an entirely bad thing - they're just probably not for me. And I don't totally agree with the traditional American get as much as you can for yourself view as it pertains to land ownership, but I do feel that there is something uniquely American about our lives and it would be a shame for us to lose our identity as Americans in an ever-globalizing community as much as it's a shame that we seem to push that identity to places it doesn't belong.

That begs the question: Should we (Americans) homogenize our view of Europe? It's possible we're just becoming more British, or more Hungarian. Maybe we're not adopting all that much of an Italian or Dutch lifestyle. I did see some windmills as I was flying from San Francisco to Nashville the other day, but I'm pretty sure the click-clack of wooden shoes was absent in any airport I stopped at.

My point is that, while I agree with the core of what Kid Rock says, it's coming from this pin-hole view of the world. That's astounding, considering he has more money than you could spend in a life, and plenty of time to do some traveling. But, like the host said, he's everyman here in the States, and if Fox News did a poll ... well ... if a credible organization did a poll, I think they'd find that a good percentage of Americans justify their fears the same way he does - with ignorance.

Breaking news

It's taken years - Longer than anyone really thought, really, but we've finally done it. We have officially broken the news. Shambles sounds like a nice way of describing the state of the central mode of communicating information in our world today.

Some might say "but wait ... there's still the BBC, the Guardian UK."

Well, that simply doesn't cut it. It's not enough, and one of them is partisan press by design. You can't just get your news from one angle. And yet, despite it being specifically against our rights as people in and of this nation, the United States of America, we are pretty much forced into a very partisan, guarded and false relationship with the people whose life's mission is to inform us.

It's pretty sad - and also quite entertaining - that the most honest, respectable and quite frankly non-partisan news-giver in the media is Jon Stewart. He has an amazing wit and ability to bring us information, frequently by exposing the 'lies' of people who lean at varying degrees to the right. He does this not by forcing his obvious liberal tendencies on the person, but by simply outlining the counter point to their obviously skewed perceptions of our political system. In this way, he exposes the very important point in the middle - the point that is kept out of so much of the news reporting we are exposed to in our lives.

In short, our entire system of enlightenment on political talking points is ludicrous at best and, more pragmatically, totally f*cked. Making a case for socialism ... if you take monetary gains out of the equation where public works (like being a newsman/woman) are concerned, you get a lot more truth. Luckily for us, this is America and we do things the right way ... right?