Comments on: WHY SHE'S TOUCHY ABOUT THE R-WORD

By: Jessica Taylor

Jessica Taylor — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 11:11:41 +0000

camera phones are very convenient coz they can take picture and calls at the same time".,

By: Neal Deesit

Neal Deesit — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:35:53 +0000

"There should be a word for this, for the movement of politics into the realm of pure spectacle, for someone like Sarah Palin who is utterly mediocre in every substantive way but is branded into being a political icon."

There's a collection of words for this: Neil Postman's "Amusing Ourselves to Death," described in Wikipedia:

"The essential premise of the book, which Postman extends to the rest of his argument(s), is that "form excludes the content," that is, a particular medium can only sustain a particular level of ideas. Thus Rational argument, integral to print typography, is militated against by the medium of television for the aforesaid reason. Owing to this shortcoming, politics and religion are diluted, and "news of the day" becomes a packaged commodity. Television de-emphasises the quality of information in favour of satisfying the far-reaching needs of entertainment, by which information is encumbered and to which it is subordinate."

Sarah Palin doesn't need ideas; she's "telegenic."

By: Julie

Julie — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:13:48 +0000

There have been so many times in recent years where I think something could just not possibly happen and then it happens. Like Bush getting elected a second time, or prop 8 passing in California. I can only take so much and if Palin becomes president I'm moving to Peru and telling them all I'm Canadian.

By: Sator Arepo

Sator Arepo — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:53:05 +0000

Well, I walked right in to that one. Well played, sir.

By: beau

beau — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:11:01 +0000

misunderestimate.

By: Sator Arepo

Sator Arepo — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:21:43 +0000

It seems to me that if there had been camera phones in the 60s, W would never have been president. But perhaps I underestimate.

By: dbsmall

dbsmall — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:05:31 +0000

Ed, don't worry. My strategic plan for testicular sacrifice should keep women (and animals) safe from both of us.

Althouh I now question both his taste and his badassedness.

By: waldo

waldo — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:45:38 +0000

Sarah the patsy Judas goat's rise and rise was predicted and beautifully illustrated 20 years ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecXT1fMuEZw

Sarah's not a retard. She's wilfully ignorant, a trait embraced by a large section of the American political psyche during the torture, rape and butchery of Vietnam Laos and Cambodia, and encouraged and fostered by the religio/ultra-right/neocon cabal ever since.

By: displaced Capitalist

displaced Capitalist — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:57:39 +0000

Crazy For Urban Planning:

It's the same people who don't look at the moon and wonder what it is. Their failure to understand the government is systemic and comes from a lack of desire to understand anything. Why do your thinking when someone else can think for you?