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That's really quite understandable! Withdrawl seems the appropriate response to one who views the equivalent of clinical insanity through a television screen. I'm not all together certain why I watch it. Partly, I suppose, to amuse myself, because I find it funny that 600 morons living a thousand miles from my home continue to assume that they are a relevant part of my life (which they're not). Another part of it is probably self-torture. Which I inflict on myself as regularly as possible as punishment for having been a typical gen-x'er and not bothering to vote because of indifference or whatever prevailing excuse might have been trendy at the moment and thereby allowing Bill Clinton to become president. By the time I finally woke up he had already broken laws, dishonored institutions and generally acted like a campus loverboy set loose at a keg party. But the largest part of why I continue to watch these shows is probably because of my astonishment at the bone-headedness of the American press core. Their obnoxious displays of elitism and self-importance. It never ceases to amaze or surprise me. I guess I find them fascinating because they're oblivious to how much they're disliked by people. So I watch. But I also understand why you don't..... probably for the same reasons.