Posted on 01/26/2009 8:56:16 AM PST by ElKafir
"Network" (1976) Howard Beale - "The Mad Prophet" Speech (Any similarities with real life characters are purely coincidental)
(Excerpt) Read more at transsylvaniaphoenix.blogspot.com ...
sounds familiar...
Reality is stranger than fiction and I get my fiction with the nightly news.
I dumped TV in 1997.
I am no longer part of the american culture. It is obvious. I get along with people on a personal level, but my lifestyle is so removed from others it is downright funny.
My wife and I have said the last several years that if the rest of the country lived like us, this economy would collapse in a week.
The Mad Prophet is right. Idiots who vote for the zero were brainwashed to believe that “change”, no matter how undefined, was a good thing.
Morrison was one sick puppy.
The Internet changes everything. The bad guys have adopted but the tube is no longer uncontested. Just ask Dan Rather.
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