Election Entertainment

The furor surround Gov. Palin is typical of the media fickleness that encroaches into the 2008 Election every day. Just as we thought it couldn't get any more ludicrous, any more biased, any more divisive, any more irritating, the vice-presidential selections have swung the entire print and visual media back towards McCain. They've even tried to vouch this suggestion, claiming that, due to McCain's years, he may well kick the proverbial bucket before the end of his second (if not his first) term, leaving Palin in charge. I've even taken the liberty of watching her make speeches, firstly at her unveiling, and then at the party congress. One word - vacuous. rhetoric is left turning in its grave. What we have here is a direct attack, a direct pursuit of people's values and beliefs; as if tapping into groupthink denotes good politics. Ha! Politics? I see nothing of the sort here, friends. Listen to her, listen to them all. Do not watch, close your eyes and listen to what they have to say. You will be left bereft, I promise. America has turned even the most boring of current affairs, politics, into entertainment, just as it has done everything else. The election cannot be discussed at length in an intimate environment. Instead we're confronted by loud, headstrong quasi-intellects shouting about the obvious as if we couldn't figure things out for ourselves. Discussion about the autumn general is no more of an election, but more of a Big Brother eviction - the least popular gets the boot, while we make do with the other.