Posted on 10/06/2004 11:01:12 AM PDT by MikalM
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." Or where Iraq is on a map...
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
I know who Halliburton is and I thank the Lord every day that my soldier son had Dick Cheney at the helm of Halliburton when he was in the military.
Yeah, Mark, that's the company Cheney resigned from four years ago, and sold all his stock in.
Sounds like a guest columnist from a high school, interning at the newspaper for a week during "Journalism Week."
Posted here :)
Man, it is kind of funny to read these rants, but also kind of scary...
PS-I said 'person's' head, as I don't know whether ol' Marky thinks of himself as a man or a woman...best I play it safe and be gender unspecific...
"Wake up, America!" The age-old cry of the losing candidate... ;)
Aah, the San Francisco Chronicle. My birds won't even take a dump on that rag.
Morford's right--most American's don't know who those people or companies are. Although that may concern me slightly, it gives me even greater comfort knowing that many, many more Americans don't know (or even care) who Miss Mark Morford is.
Without the all-important "Morford" in the title or keyword line, I might add...
What a snotty, arrogant, elitist comment. Why didn't he just write, "Hey, you hicks and rubes in flyover country! Bow to your betters; we'll make all the decisions that affect your lives."
What a jerk. I'm glad I don't have to read that SF rag every day.
lol
Yep, it's the ONLY company that was set up, prepared and ABLE to do the required job in Iraq.
I'll bump that LOL.
"Fact is, in the past decade, TV-news ratings -- cable and network, combined -- has shrunk to a fraction of its former numbers. Newspaper subscriptions have been either flat or dropping for just about as long. Newsmagazines, radio, historical nonfiction: flat or dropping fast."
He is right. But the reason? The reason the MSM is losing market share and circulation is because they chose to follow an ideology and lose market share instead of reporting the truth and having twice the circulation.
They did it to themselves and will get what they deserve.
Yes, I know all about Halliburton.
Yes, I know who Dick Cheney is.
Who are you and what gave you the idea you can talk down to me, Mr. Morford?
Mark Morford has been putting too much LSD in his cornflakes for too long. He needs to step away from the tinfoil hat, tell all of his lib buddies in SF to kiss off, and get out in the very 'Middle America' that he derides. Of course, anyone with a 'Gun Grabber' bumper sticker on their new VW bug, probably wouldn't last long in East Texas.
The answer is really quite simple. Mz Morford is actually an alien from another dimension that is twisted 180 degrees thru hyperspace from ours. As a result, he does not care about anything humans care about. Conversely, humans do not care at all about the things that he cares about.
One theory is that he arrived in this dimension when he, and a large contingent of fellow aliens, were victims of a tragic lab accident gone terribly wrong near a fluff-ball festival he was attending. The entire contingent was transported from his alternate reality directly to Golden Gate park. They tried to blend in and settle nearby but, in a typical 180 degree fashion, could not get gender specific clothing or roles right.
Researchers say this theory has the advantage of explaining the strange nature of San Francisco politics and mores--something that no other theory has even attempted to do.
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