I'd watch a debate if journalists asked real questions, and candidates gave real answers

Rabrrrrrr

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Tue Jan-15-08 09:38 PM
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I'd watch a debate if journalists asked real questions, and candidates gave real answers

Edited on Tue Jan-15-08 09:39 PM by Rabrrrrrr

But, that doesn't happen, so I've watched no debates this year, and I am less dyspeptic because of it.

THis has been one my pet peeves - or, more properly, one of my major psychotic fucking hatreds - since at least the '92 debates.

No one asks real questions, no one demands any real answers, no candidate offers any real answers.

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Rabrrrrrr

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Tue Jan-15-08 09:43 PM
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1. And what pisses me off even more is that America - dumb fucking mouthbreathing American Idol loving

America - doesn't fucking mind, because 99.9% of the shitbags, 78% of whom are as literate as a pile of moldy thread leftover from sewing Civil War boots - that make up this population don't want real answers - they want sounbdbites, bullshit, and no answer more than 10 words because "it's just too goddamned hard to concentrate when college edjewkated 'leetists start talking facts and nuance and other shit I don't need to hear cuz the Gator Bowl is only 12 months away and I need to fill my underwear with urine before the race starts!!!!"

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matcom

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Tue Jan-15-08 09:47 PM
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2. BULLSHIT! HERE is a real answer!

damned MEDIA! :grr:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY8plOGLVeg

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Rabrrrrrr

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Tue Jan-15-08 09:51 PM
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5. That's what I'm talking about! Obviously, the problem is towel heads!

Edited on Tue Jan-15-08 09:53 PM by Rabrrrrrr

And I want a ~~cantit~~ ~~candfedee~~ ~~candadaee~~ goddammit, I just want someone to die becaus ewe have the world's best miltary because God wants it!!! So use it!!!! Its so obviousy!! I mean, ~~illeggu~~ ~~ill-legg~~ ~~eye-lieg~~ immigrants!!!!

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Fox Mulder

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Tue Jan-15-08 09:54 PM
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6. Everytime I watch that clip, I lose ten IQ points.

Why do I keep clicking on it???

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lost-in-nj

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Tue Jan-15-08 09:48 PM
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3. you mean like

my Grandmother was turned down for Chemo because she is to old
the insurance company wont pay...
what will you do to change it??

or

Just tonight I heard about a friends husband who lost his job and another who might lose her home.... what kind of plan would you put in place to help them...
so we don't have more people who are willing to work, willing to sacrifice for a while so they DO NOT loose what they have worked for so far...

what would you do!!!!!!!!
FOR US

lost

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Robeson

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Tue Jan-15-08 09:49 PM
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4. Word.

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SPKrazy

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Tue Jan-15-08 09:58 PM
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7. The Media Has Become Entertainment

"Talk" shows, Jerry Springer like debates with feaux pundits who could give two shits about what they are saying and its all about ratings.

The debates are all fake too, like pro wrestling

the candidates will only answer certain questions

we've lost our country to psychopaths who want all our money and to leave us with nothing and then I don't think they've thought past "I've got mine"

addictive thinking, short term gains leaving long term problems unsolved

yeah

fuck the debates

fuck the political system

fuck the corporatist media

and more :grr:

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