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Sal wrote:How does Chris Christie fit into your new paradigm?
He's a fat, unattractive, brusque bully, yet wildly popular.
And I bet we both could name literally dozens of attractive, polished candidates who flamed out.
Words, ideas, and policies still matter.
You, Rush, and CNN are making too much of an awkward sip of water.
It doesn't mean anything other than his speech was so boring it could be upstaged by a sip of water.
"How does Christie fit into this?"
I guess the best way to judge that is, if we were still in FDR's era his obesity wouldn't matter.
But since it's the new era and we see his obesity on the tube almost every day and we see dozens of tv talking heads constantly chattering about it, it probably will matter. Actually there's not much doubt about that.
If he has the "burning desire" to live in the White House the best thing he could do for himself is man up and slim down. I want to think if someone has the strength of character to get into the position he's in, he should have the same capacity to make the weight loss happen. I would imagine the latest round of national hoopla over it probably is having an effect on his psyche. And that should be able to help him do it.
"Words, ideas, and policies still matter. "
I think we're gonna have a strong disagreement about that. What I see is most of the political celebrities on the scene now only have the packaged, scripted ideas which often don't even reveal who they really are or what they really believe. Mainly just an adherence to the status quo of trying to appeal to either the "liberal" or the "conservative" and designed to get the vote of one or the other and whatever that has become is now so vague to me that it's becoming meaningless. And with that constantly being reinforced by the cable tv "news" media.
I see very very few really new ideas. The whole thing mostly just reminds me of a bunch of tv reruns. And sequel after sequel of the same tired old thing.
"You, Rush, and CNN are making too much of an awkward sip of water."
Rush didn't start this one (although at other times he can be the instigator for sure). The cable news channels just gave him the show material to run with.
And I would not have ever even been aware of it, let alone be talking about, had the cable tv news channels (and network news programming as well) not needed content to present between the commercials.
In fact that points to the really big change in tv news in the last decade or so. There is just so much tv now which is presenting and competing in the 24/7 "news/commentary" cycle that nekochan gets this one right when she says "80% of it is pure crap".
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