The Tweety Effect and Other Media Anomalies

[theFrankFactor]

The Democratic Convention seems to have had an intoxicating effect on the talking heads in our corporate media circus. Pat Buchanan lapsed into a state of emotional euphoria and waxed on and on about black, "far-left", terrorist-fist-bumping, arugula-eating, too-thin-to-be-president, to-smart-to-be-president, not-black-enough, islamo-fascist-sleeper-agent, Manchurian-candidate Barack Obama. Is Hell under ten feet of ice?

Chris hate-the-war-love-mmccain, left-one-minute-right-the-next Matthews sounds like he's about to start bawling with tears of hope for change after Barack Obama's speech.

Will the Earth spin out of its orbit?

Why even, is-it-real-or-is-it-a-conspiracy little ole' me shed a tear or two!

It will be interesting to see if the Republican convention has the same effect on the media. McCain and others blabbering on and on about endless war, fear, terrorism and prose saturated with "9-11" changed everything, 9-11 this and 9-11 that, tax breaks for the wealthy, oil rigs in pristine wilderness and deep blue oceans, "my friend", "my friend", "my friend", "my friend", "my friend", "my friend" ad infinitum. We'll see.

I hope my hope is not in vein.