Why Don't Americans Care?

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 10/6/4 | Mark Morford

[SmithL]

Why Don't Americans Care?
Do you know who Halliburton is? Dick Cheney? How about Karl Rove? Alas, most Americans don't

Let's be honest. Percentage-wise, few people in America really give much of a crap about what's going on in the hallowed halls of politics and power.

This is what we in the media and maybe you in the media-consuming audience tend to forget far too easily: This country is simply jam-packed with millions of people who have no time for, or interest in, politics, or media, or environmental policy, or education, or global issues, or which presidential candidate lied his ass off about which aspect of his military career and which Orange Alert is totally bogus and how many soldiers are dying for what imbecilic war.

It seems hard to believe. But the general rule of thumb is that major cities are slightly more attuned due to aggressive media saturation and how issues tend to make themselves known more urgently, more immediately, whereas Middle America is a scattershot conglomeration of the politically apathetic and the actively disenfranchised, full of people far too busy with their lives and kids and jobs and zoning out on "Fear Factor" and "Monday Night Football" to care about following the elitist, ever dire dramas playing out on the nation's gilded stages.

Most Americans, in other words, have no idea what the hell a Halliburton is. Or a Karl Rove. Or a Donny "Shriveled Soul" Rumsfeld. Or a Lockheed Martin. Or a Carlysle Group. Or have any idea that Saddam had nothing whatsoever to do with 9/11. Or that WMDs were never found. Or that President Bush has taken more vacation time than any president in U.S. history. Or that Jesus thinks Dubya is "sort of a dink."

[SmithL]

Warning: Morfordite Alert!

[patriciaruth]

Speak for yourselves, ignoramus San Franciscans!

[Izzy Dunne]

esus thinks Dubya is "sort of a dink."

How does the divine Miss M know this?

[riri]

Or a Donny "Shriveled Soul" Rumsfeld.

This is the new mantra. Apparently, we need cheerleaders governing our country now.

Someone actually said to me, when I said I loved Cheney--"Ewww, that's like loving the grinch before he grew his heart" Any ideas what to say to these remarks?

[cripplecreek]

It allways amazes me how pieces like that overlook things like the oil for food scandal or the global crossing scandal.

[Old Lady]

What he is really saying: Edwards did not do well last night, so "it doesn't matter to most people."

[Izzy Dunne]

J

The above letter was inadvertantly taken out of the post. I found it in my socks later.

[BenLurkin]

"Let's be honest. Percentage-wise, few people in America really give much of a crap about what's going on in the hallowed halls of politics and power."

Hey, don't complain up there in San Francisco. How do you think it is that PIAPS and the Sink Emporer are not in Federal prison today?

[patriciaruth]

I didn't know you were descended from Grinches! How fascinating.

[hushpad]

whereas Middle America is a scattershot conglomeration of the politically apathetic and the actively disenfranchised, full of people far too busy with their lives and kids and jobs and zoning out on "Fear Factor" and "Monday Night Football" to care about following the elitist, ever dire dramas playing out on the nation's gilded stages. <<


Says who, you sniveling POS? Like the morons and deviants of San Francisco have any awareness beyond whats going up their bountiful behinds.

[cricket]

"Warning: Morfordite Alert!"

Too late!

[MEG33]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1236373/posts

Kerry Ad Falsely Accuses Cheney on Halliburton

[Unam Sanctam]

Democrats more and more have a class warfare, "soak-the-rich" rhetoric and a "business is evil" assumption that is reflected in this whole talismanic "Halliburton" thing. Frankly, I think it is a plus in an elected official that they had experience in the private sector and in running a for-profit company.

[StACase]

If this guy weren't such a sycophantic liberal weenie, I'd say he had a point. If I wrote the article, I would have said most Americans are interested in other things like their family, their jobs, their God and the Packers. But this guy chose to fly liberal colors with the usual crap that I've grown much too familiar with and accept as the staus quo.

[BenLurkin]

There is no way to speak intelligently with the dumbed down generation.

They are so ignorant they don't even know that they are ignorant. Their marxist indoctrination, on the other hand, has been VERY effective.

[marty60]

Evil Dumb Dums can't see further than their own nose. Halliburton is an American company, (not French or German) skerry's constant Anti-americanisms doesn't work. Hey SF, wake up and smell the defeat.

[asformeandformyhouse]

Ewww, that's like loving the grinch before he grew his heart" Any ideas what to say to these remarks?

Send them to bed without their supper. I can't imagine anyone over 10 years old saying this.

[RexBeach]

Look, I'm just going to be blunt here: Morford is a maggot.

There. Now I feel better.

[riri]

Send them to bed without their supper. I can't imagine anyone over 10 years old saying this

This came from a grown man, I kid you not.

[BureaucratusMaximus]

...if I really want to affect minds I should consider tempering or sanitizing my opinions for a more "moderate" mainstream readership, as if the nation was chock-full of opinionated, well-read, temperate thinkers ready to be gently informed of new ideas, when in fact this group is but a fraction, a sliver, far overshadowed and overpowered by the real majority in America: The detached. The disinterested. The intellectually lazy.

You know, I know its Morford, and the rest of the article is raises the same intellectually lazy, liberal chutzpah, but there is alot of truth to the above statement.