roachboy

like i said, the responses from the right in this thread are very 1984.

and the assumption is that the conservatives control the debate, too, which is funny. flailing about in the politics of sleaze when you can reasonably expect to control the debate is one thing: staying there when you don't is just an embarrassment.

i am sure that none of the conservatives have ever done anything really fucked up in their lives--it's their purity that makes them o so admirable. i am sure that no conservative has ever done anything irreversible and questionable in the whole of their lives. it's that purity that gives them moral high ground in this, as in all matters.

one thing is interesting, though: the effects of the grouphate with kennedy is to erase almost entirely the human being behind the pinata head---it's pretty easy to see how this maps into other areas. witness the purchase that the idiotic huntington thesis had amongst conservatives back in the day. it's much easier to deal in a world of cartoons than to deal with human beings.

o yeah: in the interest of full disclosure, i am neither a fan nor not a fan of ted kennedy as a politician. but for fucks sake, he;s a human being with a malignant brain tumor. what difference does it make when making judgments about that what you might have made of his political career?

and as for newsworthiness---well, we live in a tabloid television world which condenses democratic processes onto the figures of individuals--given that, it follows that this is a newsworthy item. if there's a problem, it's with the entire system of television news coverage itself.
and your grandmother with a similar condition would be newsworthy as well, or would have been once upon a time when the press was decentralized and locally oriented information could circulate within small communities.

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