I've been watching the Democratic National Convention and am feeling pretty damn good about it all. Well, about most of it. I've been thinking a lot about the Hillary supporters who say they're going to sit out the election or vote for McCain, and frankly, they make me a little crazy. But what's really burning me up tonight is the pundits. My husband, God bless his fair heart, switches channels from NBC to MSNBC to Fox to CNN to PBS and back all over again so we can hear what everyone says about Michelle, Hillary and Bill and their speeches. We're both sick of every single person on every network we've watched (with the exception of that hard-ass chick on the panel on MSNBC who has to sit beside Bill Buchanan all day long)--is there a reporter left in America? Does every reporter now feel compelled to share their opinions? What happened to unbiased NEWS? I want facts and reportage. Leave the sarcastic comments to me. Leave the analysis to me. Leave the stupid, useless, time-wasting, empty-headed questions to me. I got that. You reporters, report and then get out of the way. As for the pundits (especially the men), please stop using sports metaphors. Not everyone likes sports. Not everyone understands the references and allusions. Not everyone thinks this is the 9th inning (it isn't) or the Superbowl (there's already one of those...duh). Stop it or I'll be forced to throw you a knuckle ball.
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Tip: Mute. Once the speeches have been said and done I mute the tv.
this morning, on multiple channels, I heard the pundits talking about "reading tea leaves" to predict McCain's VP. I heard the phrase literally 4 or 5 times.
Excuse me, but I want my news to come from reporting, not tea.
then, on CNN, the first thing the Republican pundit said about Palin was "I don't know much about her." Um, so whatever you said in the 10 minutes afterwards was pretty much fluff, eh?
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