It irks me just a bit that since all the furor has been raised about the detention facility for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo, the name in the media has become synonymous with the prison.
The Barack Attack (I haven’t settled on a nickname for him just yet — oh yeah, he WILL get a nickname. He doesn’t get a pass just because he is a Dem.)is preparing an order to shutter the compound housing suspected terrorists at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba. I figure most people — regardless of how they feel about what all closing the jail entails — know what Obama’s reasoning is for such an order so I won’t go into that whole can or worms.
But all along the media has talked about the facility and the uproar over it saying calls have come to “close Guantanamo.” That makes it sound like people want to and the incoming administration will shut down the Navy base lock, stock and watch towers put up to keep out the Commies. I suppose people will say it is just understood that people know to separate the detention facility closing from the base continuing to operate. But one positive thing pounded into my head by editors during my career was that people don’t understand everything. In fact, many people don’t understand anything at all. It (the phenomenon that many people don’t understand anything at all) is called the “dumb-ass factor.” That is not to be confused with the “O’Reilly Factor,” which is a reactionary show hosted on Fox (We Lie Our Asses Off) News by Bill O’Reilly, who is an ass, makes an ass of himself quite regularly and often makes very dumb-ass remarks.
Here is a history of the naval base, how the U.S. came to have and keep a navy base in Cuba and the whole ball of wax. Sorry for the cliches but I am a bit tired.
Okay, I’ve said my piece, now the media will stop what they are doing and start explaining the difference between the navy base and the detention facility. I’ve saved the world again. Then, I woke up.