Life of Wry

Okay.  If this is what passes for political debate in this country.. that’s it, I’m done.  Of course, I’ve been done many times, done for a long time, but I’m done yet again. This is just way, way too icky.

Wincingly embarrassing, bury-head-in-hand embarrassing.

I watched the intro, the preamble, to this week’s CNN-Tea Party sponsored republican debate and, like somebody else said, “I didn’t know whether to laugh, cry or throw up.”  I’m still thinking it’s a joke, that they didn’t really stage all this pageantry leading into a presidential debate.  But they actually did.

And this is what thoroughly disgusts me about today’s mainstream media: its stupiding-down and media-eventing of everything.  C’MON CNN!! I know, I know, you’re CNN, this is what your network does, but really?  You’ve turned a presidential debate into a tacky, tabloidal affair, and frankly, it’s just gross. The Blue Angels?

Uggh.

You’re laughing in the back room, right?  You can’t believe how stupid your audience is and what you have to do to keep its attention?  You must turn [what should be] serious programming into vapid entertainment because .. the audience is that thick?

Well. Okay.

Oh, and let me clarify, I didn’t watch the debate–I don’t have the stomach for it–I saw the preamble, just the preamble, on the Daily Show (forever grateful for Jon Stewart) a few minutes ago.

And you can, too, here (five minutes of barely watchable American reality)

(I can’t embed the video because it’s not a YouTube video or a Google Video… but just click on the above link and you can watch it at the Daily Show’s site… it’s worth it, but don’t be eating or drinking anything as you watch because you might spit up on your computer.)

Can I move now?

Really.. I’ve taken my deep breaths and filed this one away under moronic, inane shit the media does, and am moving on, going back to the refuge of sane, quiet, no frills media, like NPR and the Nation.