We have nothing to fear but irony itself
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pjthompsonQuote(s) of the day:
"If you're looking for truth, try fiction."
—Charles De Lint, Memory and Dream
"Fear is like [a] knife. It serves one purpose: it cuts into things. Keep it folded in your pocket and it can't hurt you."
—Jonathan Carroll, The Wooden Sea
And speaking of insidious sensationalism:
A new poll (a real one this time) found that Fox News was the most trusted purveyor in America. That's enough to make one gag one's pablum, I tells ya. The upside of this is that it was 11% of respondents, which doesn't say much for the overall trust level for broadcast news (which I guess would be another down side). (I'm losing track of my sides.)
This just in:
Poll results are showing that, as expected, irony remains the leading cause of extraordinary death in this nation, although some people continue to be persistently immune to its effects. The Bush Administration has funded a long-term project to research ways in which to wipe out the scourge of irony. Some day, with enough tax dollars, America may indeed be an irony-free nation.
"If you're looking for truth, try fiction."
—Charles De Lint, Memory and Dream
"Fear is like [a] knife. It serves one purpose: it cuts into things. Keep it folded in your pocket and it can't hurt you."
—Jonathan Carroll, The Wooden Sea
And speaking of insidious sensationalism:
A new poll (a real one this time) found that Fox News was the most trusted purveyor in America. That's enough to make one gag one's pablum, I tells ya. The upside of this is that it was 11% of respondents, which doesn't say much for the overall trust level for broadcast news (which I guess would be another down side). (I'm losing track of my sides.)
This just in:
Poll results are showing that, as expected, irony remains the leading cause of extraordinary death in this nation, although some people continue to be persistently immune to its effects. The Bush Administration has funded a long-term project to research ways in which to wipe out the scourge of irony. Some day, with enough tax dollars, America may indeed be an irony-free nation.
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Date: 2006-05-04 12:33 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-05-04 03:53 pm (UTC)It's really all we have.
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Date: 2006-05-04 04:49 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-05-05 09:35 am (UTC)And South Park.
All hail the First Amendment!
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Date: 2006-05-04 10:19 pm (UTC)A friend told me about a poll from a little while back... among Republicans, CSPAN was reported by respondents to have the highest level of left-wing bias. Errrr... CSPAN is a camera on a tripod sitting in a room. Yeah, apparently the righties think that simple facts and truth have a left wing spin. LOL...
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Date: 2006-05-05 09:36 am (UTC)A brave man.
CSPAN was reported by respondents to have the highest level of left-wing bias.
If that's true, it's hilarious. And terrifying.
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Date: 2006-05-05 09:28 pm (UTC)Very, very brave. Glad to see he wasn't hauled off stage and taken down to Gitmo right then and there.
If that's true, it's hilarious. And terrifying.
And so telling about the right-wing, eh?
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Date: 2006-05-06 11:13 am (UTC)Jon Stewart joked with him the next day about being chased out of Washington and he said, "Yes, it was like a 250 mile marathon in wing tips."
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Date: 2006-05-06 10:48 pm (UTC)