Tubist Americanos

The American Spectator ^ | July 26, 2007 | R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

[AnnGora]

WASHINGTON -- The other night when I watched the Democratic presidential candidates participate in what they presumed to call a "debate," I wondered anew about the failure of one of my political coinages to catch on. The debate was sponsored by CNN and what is called YouTube, which is essentially an agglutination of home videos filmed for and by that preposterous mass of shut-ins who sit in their underwear day and night glued to the Internet. Over a dozen of these sad sacks filmed their mainly ignorant questions, and a CNN talking head then directed the inquiries to those Democrats who aspire to the responsibilities of a Roosevelt or a Kennedy.

[AnnGora]

Bob Tyrrell calls it again! Indeed, when you have candidates answering questions from a snowman, you know the morons have taken over the political process.

[AmericanGunner]

[ClearCase_guy]

I would really like to see a political candidate "break the fourth wall" during a debate and talk directly to the American people and say something like:

"My fellow American, something is wrong when candidates for President are being asked questions about lattes, or taking questions from snowmen. We no longer have a serious political process in this country. The courts make up laws, the legisalture ignores the Constitution, The executive branch refuses to enforce laws. And the media just treats it all like some cheesy sitcom. We're broken. Elect me, and we will begin to recover from this tragic farce. Put an adult in charge."

[dmz]

shall we take that as a ‘no’ vote on the new media? The same internet that spawns YouTube also provides, for example, Newsbusters, or even FR itself.

[AnnGora]

Dare to dream...

[AnnGora]

I don’t think it is that difficult to separate the good from the ridiculous. For instance, the “old” media contains Brit Hume (good) and Keith Olbermann (ridiculous). The “new” media contains thoughtful and perceptive wisdom from FreeRepublic and, at the same time, harbors foolishness from morons who disguise themselves as snowmen on YouTube.

Is it not too much to ask to cull the media herd a bit?