Our stupid discourse

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Here’s Montel Williams, making sense on the subject of press coverage of Heath Ledger versus coverage of troops killed in Iraq.

According to this post on daily Kos, from which I lifted this idea,

Three minutes into this awkward segment on Fox, one host cut off Montel in order to go to a commercial. Montel did not return after the break. Four days later, after 17 years as a television host, Montel lost his job.

Speaking of Fox and its hamhanded style of shaping discourse, here’s a clip on their klunky transparent fluffy of the candidacy of Rudy Giuliani. Man, this is Soviet-style propaganda, about as subtle as a freight train. Maybe if they had been a little less strident they would have been more successful.

Or maybe Rudy’s just such an asshole that not even Republican voters would fall for his schtick.

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2 Comments

  1. Zencomix
    February 3, 2008 at 10:49 am

    Hey John,
    I added you to my blogroll. Cheers!

  2. John
    February 3, 2008 at 11:03 pm

    Thanks, and yours to mine.

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