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Edited on Tue Feb-01-05 11:32 AM by welshTerrier2
PRESIDENT: A popular ride in the {FUTURE FAIR}. You get to ask a question of the computer-operated President, and get a free simulfax copy of your question, together with his answer. {CLEM} broke the President by asking him about {PORRIDGE BIRD}s. interesting snip from a December, 1998 interview with Phil Proctor:We like to deal with the aspects of power and politics itself, instead of the outward manifestation of it, because there will always be another President. It's about the power of the Presidency. That's what the nature of this entire political even right now is about--the power of the Presidency. The Republicans are basically trying to take away the power the Democrats have of the Presidency, because the Republicans have a majority in the House and the Senate. They want to wrest-back the power the President has taken in controlling the middle of the road, politically. That's why they've become so radicalized, because this President is much more of a Moderate than he is a Liberal Democrat. No matter how much they try to deface him by calling him a Liberal Democrat, it's really ludicrous. The whole idea of calling the media a Liberal controlled media is ludicrous now. It's ludicrous! The media is almost entirely controlled, it seems to me, by the right wing. I can't even listen to talk radio locally anymore because you don't get any other opinions. I listen to radio and read newspapers, and live life because I'm challenged by other people's opinions. If I recognize a monolithic state of mind, I turn it off. I just don't watch anymore. I know what they're going to say. Rush Limbaugh is a shill for himself, but he's an interesting character. Now, Howard Stern is a monkey. He represents the anarchism. I admire what Stern does, although I think that the way that he does it is often reprehensible! But I admire the spirit of his art. He's a maverick, and he makes fun of people in high places. He is the guy that says the Emperor has no clothes. Again, it's no boundaries. He's able to exist because there are no boundaries and there is no privacy anymore. And that's why there are the Jerry Springers and Real TV, and the blah, blah, blah, blah . . . all of that. But, basically, what disturbs me is that in local radio they've taken off the liberal voices, like Michael Jackson, because they couldn't compete financially with the audience Limbaugh was getting. What they've done is they've replaced him on local stations with similar right wing puppets--with people who articulate the right wing philosophy. So now you go from station to station to station, and there's basically like three major talk radio stations, and they're all babbling right wing philosophies. So, you seldom, if ever, get a Liberal perspective, or just a different perspective. That's boring! So I end up not listening to any of them. Not only because there's nothing to listen to in that regard--there's nothing exciting in terms of debate--but because I already know what they're going to say. They've been saying it ever since Clinton got into office, they've been attacking him, and it's just the same-old, same-old. So, why listen? It doesn't make me feel any better. There's nothing new to be said that hasn't been said already. I'd much rather read the paper and see what's really happening, or what's supposedly happened. So, when you get into politics, you're getting into a lot of opinion, and you're getting into a lot of bipolarization. You're getting into a lot of areas that tend to divide us instead of get us together. |
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