Why I did not watch the CNN/YouTube thing.
So this is politics?
By Mark Kilmer Posted in 2008 | Anderson Cooper | CNN | youtube — Comments (10) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
I did not watch the CNN/YouTube debate last night. If you managed to sit through it, God bless you, but that sort of thing does not resemble the politics which drew me toward the process.
But I suppose I owe you an explanation.
WHY I DID NOT WATCH THE CNN/YOUTUBE GOP PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE.
* I'd just completed my radiation treatment regimen for throat cancer, and I had more pressing concerns than surveying twaddle. I suppose Clean House was on Style Channel – it always is when I am flipping through – but Bruckner's Symphony no 3 in D minor, the one Wagner really liked, by the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra under Hartmut Haenchen had just arrived via USPS earlier. And there's something to be said for our mail carrier. She's… better looking than Rudy Giuliani.
* I had heard that Ron Paul were going to be there, and I wasn't in the mood for a cipher. (Straight talk? Oh, right.)
* I'd heard the same of Dunc and Trancredo. I have nothing against middle-aged guys with long records of exemplary public service playing a little to their vanities, but the key modifier is "a little." Not a lot. It's time to move on, gentlemen.
* I don't much care to watch a lefty blue jean heiress, Anderson Cooper, pretend to be objective or to be a newsman. (His mommy is Gloria Vanderbilt.)
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* Look, the Huckabee juggernaut would have overwhelmed me. Just the aura of the man, being in the same room… well, not in the same room, but on the other end of a TV signal… He's lost a lot of weight, you know.
* The people who make those zany YouTube vids – the snowmen, the plants (see below), the aging hippies – intimidate me an' my brain cell. They bring to mind the great revolutionary pamphleteers like Thomas Paine. Well, not Paine. Who was that guy who wrote the pamphlets that no one read?
* It is undeniable science-'cos-I-said-so, though not quite on the level of global climate change, that there are all sorts of plants which have important biological functions. That being said, there were just too many of them doing the YouTube thaang last night. (Start here and here.)
The main reason, though, that I didn't watch the CNN/YouTube thing last night:
* My wife, a huge FNC fan, figured out how to V-Chip CNN off the bedroom TV.
The odds were stacked against me, but really, what would I have gained by seeing the political process turned into a combination of Deal or no Deal and Survivor?
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Good post. Best of luck recovering. God bless.
I didn't watch it either. These debates are more like The Apprentice for political junkies than it is real debate.
The plants - good comment. How hilarious! I think the most significant thing that came from this TV show was a reminder that the Clintons haven't changed a bit. If she is their nominee, we can expect all the tired ol' tricks of the past and the very same scandals will haunt them until they have been yanked off the stage yet again.
You did yourself and those of us who enjoy this site a favor. Godspeed.
"No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong." - Winston Churchill
pointed out the identity of a certain Army officer who just happened to be a Democratic campaign staffer, who would have guessed and oh the shock, despite his being on CNN before. How are you supposed to know things like that?
What's next, Hillary in a wig going for a Republican jugular vein in the guise of concerned citizen. The Dems don't have to stack audiences and run the risk of getting caught, the media will do it for them.
"a man's admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him". Tocqueville
Wake me up when the 2nd tier candidates face up to their denial and drop out. A debate with the few contenders that actually have a chance will be much more interesting to me.
As much as I like politics, I've grown weary with the never ending election cycles. I suppose that once we have our new POTUS in '08, the '12 campaign will start. God help us all.
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That nails it. As Fielding Mellish said, "It's a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham." Pretty soon they'll start referring to them as "contestants" rather than candidates.
Congratulations on the end of the treatment, Mark. Hopefully by Christmas you'll be chugging bottled water again.
Hubbie and I watched it -- but, if you just look up "GOP Debate Song" also on You-Tube, it's a sufficient summary.
Looks like CNN is, once again, the "Clinton News Network"!