Posted on 02/14/2007 9:07:01 AM PST by COUNTrecount
Hi, everyone.
Yesterday, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney declared his candidacy for president. Last Saturday, Illinois Senator Barack Obama did the same.
Why was neither announcement a surprise? Maybe because everybody knows that both these candidates--along with all the others--have been running for months.
And yet, we --the media -- and they -- the candidates -- conspire with each other, and pretend that these announcements are actually news.
The game has been played every election since 1988 and it goes like this:
Candidates announce they're thinking of exploring--we cover that. Candidates announce they're officially exploring--we cover that. Candidates announce they're--quote--"pretty sure" they're going to run--we cover that. And finally, candidates announce that they're actually running--and as you'll see this week, we cover that.
It's a win-win for the press and the politicians...we both get the stories we want. But the public just gets information overload.
That's a page from my notebook.
Sela, age 19, was Alabama's 1975 Homecoming Queen.
Sela (top left) and teammates on the 1977 Varsity Squad
Crimson Tide cheerleaders of 1976: Debbie Purifoy, Carol Wheeler, Sela Ward, Sandra Whitehead, and Beth Troxell.
And today:
OH MONK I saw that that was on last season ROFL LMAO
Candidates announce they're thinking of exploring--we cover that....after making up crap about the Republican and fawning over the Democrap as "Superman without a cape!".
Candidates announce they're officially exploring--we cover that...by outting all Republicans as Gay or even worse....Christians, and hail all Democraps as "this years messiah!" Candidates announce they're--quote--"pretty sure" they're going to run--we cover that...unless they are Republican. And finally, candidates announce that they're actually running--and as you'll see this week, we cover that...unless they are 'gay' republicans.
any why didn't you post the world famous pix of her with Bear Bryant......I love that picture....
BAD FACE LIFT
Well, hell IMAGINE
if media types were held
to the same standards
serious Freepers
expected of themselves and
see in normal posts!
Katie has some type of Botox-induced Tourette facial syndrome.
Even if she was serving up Rush Limbaugh doctrine, she would still be visually unwatchable at this point.
the seeBS liberal tripe just makes it worse........
Sela Ward, OTOH is just peachy
JMHO - beauty is in the eye of the beholder
She has always been one of the more stunning females in Hollywierd. Very very lovely...oh yea...
One of the local talk station runs the Hightower lies, then Couric's vapid observations fifteen minutes later. I change the station or turn off the radio.
Vampira
no no no....with the Bear - not with a glass of champagne....in fact, I think it was his very last game....
She's one of my faves ever since Sisters.
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