----- Original Message ----- From: "John D. Giorgis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 8:24 AM Subject: Re: TV Editing
> It seems like the editing reported it exactly how it is. > > Dean plainly said that listening to other peoples' arguments for eight > hours would be a waste of time for ordinary people - because they can't be > convinced. > > JDG No John. What Dean is saying is that the caucus' last longer than most people have time for. Quote: >Dean: I don't think so. I don't have the time to do it. It doesn't get >people involved. It drives people out of the process, and leaves the >people who are left in the process -- the professional people who get >paid to be there. End Quote Therefore the caucus' are preaching to a mostly empty audience. People are busy doing other things. Most of the people! The most you are going to get out of the American public is a few minutes of TV news and that only on *some* days. So basically we are electing people on the basis of "paid political announcements" and fifteen second soundbytes. There are people who are politically active and others who watch tons of news, but these people are such a small minority that they have little actual impact since only the news junkies are swayable to any appreciable degree. So for the most part everyone votes along party lines and the only movement of those lines within the population is due to the application of soundbytes and the steady drumming of partisans like Limbaugh and Fox News. (Or maybe even Al Franken to some degree. I'm not sure how much impact he has if any.) xponent Sad State Of Politics Maru rob _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
