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May 10, 2005
Yep, These Are My Countrymen
The Smoking Gun has compiled a selection of emails received in the wake of the Jennifer Wilbanks boondoggle (you remember: the white girl who wandered off before her wedding and became the subject of a national fianceehunt). I especially love numbers 7,15,22,23 and 24; I'd love to play Clue with the people who wrote those.
I link to this because it's interesting to me what exercises my fellow Americans' interest and anger. (And when I say "interesting", I mean "top-of-the-water-cooler-with-a-machine-gun-infuriating.") But is Americans' fascination with the stupid the effect of the pathetic American media, or the cause?
If the media had blared out (or, frankly, even hinted at) the Iraq memo, would people have gotten fired up about that? At stuff like this line?
Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.
Is it just that the media are keeping people in a sheeplike daze, so they don't have to actually break a sweat investigating something? Or do people really care more about runaway brides, Michael Jackson, and American Idol?
And do I really want to know the answer to that?
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