14-11-2016, 01:27 AM
Lauren Johnson Wrote:Cliff Varnell Wrote:Lauren Johnson Wrote:Quote: I'm hyper-sensitive to having my posts sent down the memory hole since the one thing that means most to me is my work here in the Arts section.
Cliff, how about this? You keep on doing your fantastic work in the Arts section -- which I love -- and leave deep politics stuff to the others here. We don't need the help. Get busy on what you do well.
Lauren, just curious, how many hours of American cable news did you watch between June 16, 2015 and Nov. 8, 2016?
I don't watch cable news. Waste of time -- other than to find out what bs is being fed to us. So, in that spirit, maybe 10 hours.
If I spend 10 hours of watching cable news over the next 4 years it'll be 9 too much.
In the spring of 2015 I got cable TV so I could watch my beloved Golden State Warriors basketball team win the NBA Championship.
I didn't like cable news too much because they only cover a limited number of subjects, usually harping on one or two things endlessly.
Then Trump showed up. Like millions of other Americans I started binge-watching cable news to see this idiot tear up other Republican idiots.
In the beginning it was funny and appalling but compelling.
Then it was appalling, period.
By the time Trump had the nomination in hand early May I started feeling burn-out but I soldiered on, watching at least 4 hours a day of CNN/MSNBC/Fox
(two bad knees and a bad hip keep me around the house a lot).
I was determined to watch the Donald J Trump Show Starring Donald J Trump Featuring the Lovely Ivanka to its logical conclusion.
I figured Trump would self-destruct and after the Pussy Grabbing tape was released he started to fall apart.
Then Comey showed up with his letter to Congress and over the last 11 days the entire race changed.
Clinton went from outlining her vision for the future to going back on attack against the resurgent Trump, who picked himself up and got back on message.
Comey gave Trump's moribund campaign life and renewed momentum.
I vowed over the last 11 days of the election not to watch Trump, any of his surrogates, anything about Clinton e-mails.
I hardly watched cable news over the last 11 days. Every couple of hours or so I'd turn on the TV and they'd be going on about emails.
Not the fact that Trump didn't release his taxes, or that he was a serial sexual predator. That stuff was old news.
It was all about Dishonest Hillary and e-mails that turned out to have nothing to do with her.
It's called voter suppression, Lauren.
And unless you were an avid consumer of American cable news during this election cycle, y'all don't know dick about the 2016 election.
Turning cable news into Reality TV is what this election was all about.
Just say'n...