Armstead
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Fri Sep-22-06 09:38 PM
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I'm Tired of Obsessive ReHashing of stupid things people say |
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Edited on Fri Sep-22-06 09:41 PM by Armstead
Beginning of :rant:
The news -- and resultant discussion in the public square -- seems to have boiled down to a really simple, stupid formula.
Take a sentence that someone says that is stupid or out of the ordinary, and then make a fricking big deal out of it. Show it over and over on TV. Have pundits yak and yak about it endlessly. One faction gets righteously indignant, the other side defends it. A few inane words beecome the most important thing in the world....Until tomorrow when someone else makes a slip of the tongue or is overly expressive.
This week it was Chavez. After the Iowa causus it was Dean. Then it was the Dixie Chicks. Then it's Anne Coulter....blah,blahblah ad nauseum.
It's so much easier to argue about a turn of phrase than looking what might be behind it with any context. It's so much easier to argue about whether Chavez was excessively rude then to actually cover Venezuala. And how many otehr world leaders actually said substantial things at the UN? Why were they ignored?
So much easier to pick apart a soundbite than to actually look at the issues in any intelligent way.
UNfortunately it seems to be a non-partisan pastime. We do as much clucking as anyone. Jim Webb in Virginia has been doing a great job at raising important issues.. But the race is only covered in terms of whether Allen said something stupidly racist or if he was overly sensitive about being Jewish.
Christ at this level of discourse it's no wonder the damn country is going down the toilet.
End of :rant:
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Eric J in MN
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Fri Sep-22-06 09:41 PM
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1. In the case of Chavez, enough of his speech has been seen... |
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Edited on Fri Sep-22-06 09:42 PM by Eric J in MN
...by the pubic to make Noam Chomsky's book "Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance" number 1 on amazon.com.
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Fri Sep-22-06 09:43 PM
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2. Yeah, and I wonder how many of those people will actually read it |
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Most are probably buying it to see if Chomsky calls Bush the devil.
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Fri Sep-22-06 09:44 PM
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3. You mean the one like... |
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Al Gore invented the internet....
Every time I hear a freeper say that it make my head go POP:nuke:
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Fri Sep-22-06 09:46 PM
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4. America is mired in minutiae...the level of BS and Crap...we revel in it |
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Level 2 requires truthful statements...most have difficulty there
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Fri Sep-22-06 09:47 PM
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5. I haven't gotten over the "Dean Scream". |
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Fri Sep-22-06 09:48 PM
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6. Because he's Insannnnneeeeee! |
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Fri Sep-22-06 09:55 PM
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Thanks. Now I can let it go.
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Fri Sep-22-06 10:55 PM
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Just remember that all liberals, actors, leaders of nations we don't like and scientists who believe in global warming are insane.
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