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May. 1st, 2008 | 01:25 pm

Thanks to the internet, I have a lot of international friends and acquaintances who watch U.S. politics with interest and complete befuddlement. "Do you actually, um, understand your own voting process? Do any of you guys actually pay attention to your own candidates and what they're saying?" is a not infrequent observation from around the globe, and anecdotally, they seem in general to be better informed about U.S. politics than many Americans are. (Although it's entirely possible that I'm just choosing to hang out even online with people with an interest in politics.)

Here's part of the problem:



Edit: Irk. For some reason the MSNBC.com video isn't embedding properly. So, instead of the video, a link to where I found it.

Most Americans, alas, get their news from television shows just like this one.

Brought to my attention by CrooksandLiars.com.
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Rich

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from: [info]dragonbane
date: May. 1st, 2008 11:43 pm (UTC)
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Mari Ness

Re: chow calamity spreads across the globe.

from: [info]mariness
date: May. 2nd, 2008 01:41 am (UTC)
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I usually delete this sort of spam, but it was so unintentionally funny given my post that I left it in.

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this could be our finest hour

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from: [info]dzuunmod
date: May. 1st, 2008 07:22 pm (UTC)
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I can't tell you how many times I've started posts that would just be, verbatim, the first ten minutes of Bill O'Reilly's radio show (the podcast of which I torture myself with daily), only to exasperatedly give up shortly after. Because it's a lot of typing, and because it's just frickin' depressing to think that people listen to him and put value on his words.

Ugh.

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Mari Ness

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from: [info]mariness
date: May. 2nd, 2008 01:42 am (UTC)
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And yet, alas, they apparently do.

With O'Reilly, though, I exercise my constitutional right not to listen to him.

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this could be our finest hour

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from: [info]dzuunmod
date: May. 2nd, 2008 08:07 pm (UTC)
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I have to say, I was unaware of the freedom-from-Bill-O'Reilly section of your country's Constitution.

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Pandora

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from: [info]pandorable
date: May. 2nd, 2008 03:01 pm (UTC)
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Click me!!

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Mari Ness

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from: [info]mariness
date: May. 4th, 2008 01:28 am (UTC)
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We are supporting Get Fuzzy in the general election, right?

Although I'm tempted to switch my support and start urging people to vote for Belkar from Order of the Stick, since he'd murder several politicians from the get go, which is a plus, and he's guided by a cat, which is an even bigger plus.

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