There are two separate threads to my dislike of this, and they're worth parsing out...the first is the pragmatic one -- I want as many FauxNews dittoheads to wake up as possible, and this just isn't helping. I know they'd try to spin it anyway, but by singing "Chaney's Got a Gun" they don't even have to TRY.
At the office where I work, I saw a lot of people being told about this for the first time, and their faces just lit up, they thought it was so great. And that just didn't sit well with me...I don't know, it just makes it all seem so partisan, where it shouldn't be about political sides at all, it should be about truth. It reminds me of an article I saw in the Nation of a few weeks ago, about this guy who went to watch the State of the Union with a room full of liberals, and was talking about the emotion response there. Politics is not a football game, where you root for your team...and more and more I'm seeing people on my side of the isle that treat it like one.
Yeah, I agree that the politicization of the issue (or any serious one) particularly combined with that glee is really distasteful. And I am unaware, really, of the major broadcast news' coverage of the issue as I've read the newsbits related to it online only. Still, I wonder if it isn't unlike the whole Christ in Christmas "issue" that became the news in December. Were there really that many people/corporations who insisted on PC holiday expressions, or did the FauxNews/White House conglomerate choose that as its story to overshadow other serious things that were going on? I don't know, honestly. But yeah--glee? That's some messed up junk.
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Date: 2006-02-14 11:40 pm (UTC)At the office where I work, I saw a lot of people being told about this for the first time, and their faces just lit up, they thought it was so great. And that just didn't sit well with me...I don't know, it just makes it all seem so partisan, where it shouldn't be about political sides at all, it should be about truth. It reminds me of an article I saw in the Nation of a few weeks ago, about this guy who went to watch the State of the Union with a room full of liberals, and was talking about the emotion response there. Politics is not a football game, where you root for your team...and more and more I'm seeing people on my side of the isle that treat it like one.
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Date: 2006-02-14 11:48 pm (UTC)