for every one of those, there is an opposite spew, with the names reversed.
I believe this election will in fact go down in history as the end of the truth having any meaning, the end of reality having any reason, and the start of electioneering by 15 second soundbites fed to news stations. It will be known as the election where the Micheal Moores can use editting magic to create a new reality, and Swift Boat Vetrans For Truth can create fantasy truths, which become retroactive truths.
I've seen the doctored images (Jane fonda speech with Kerry photoshopped into it so it looks like he was there speaking with her in the early 70's. Bush making a speech to "cloned" soldiers, photo shopped into the background.).
This election will signal the death of the truth, the death of reality, and the beginning of using a wall of noise as the best effective election tool.
Repeat it often enough, it becomes the new truth.
Never use sentences over 20 seconds, as they don't fit into the newscasts layout. Make sure you put a humdinger zinger at the end of it to give it repeat airplay.
Catchy phrases which end with a derogatory comment beats out any kind of intelligent analysis today.
Feed the drivethrough masses, with drivethrough speed soundbites. They'll eat them up and supersize it.
It's sad.
Yes, I believe it will be remembered, but not for any lofty grandious reasons.
You have your soundbite man, you dig him, you've posted a good load of truthware for him. And some other guy somewhere is posting similar crud with the names reversed. All deisgned to keep people from thinking for themselves as they are too busy in rushhour traffic heading to wendys for a lunch combo so they can get back to the office for that meeting.
Everyone can believe what they want and roll with their own filtered new-truth, I'll just sit on the sidelines and cringe at the absurdity of it all.
