'americans are obsessed by the royal wedding'

[spanone]

heard this on npr after they reported that nbc/m$nbc has sent over 200 people to england to cover the wedding.

i would offer that the american media is obsessed by the royal wedding and the american people don't give a shit.

[MadHound]

1. Yep,

The American media is desperately trying to gin up some sort of interest in the royal wedding, while the American public simply yawns and moves on.

[blm]

2. a poll I saw yesterday showed that only 6% of Americans are interested in the story.

The corporate media has a job....promote royalism and fascism for their privileged elite masters.

[patrice]

8. Nailed. It. That's exactly what they are doing.

[ecstatic]

25. Not only do I have no interest, I turn the channel when it comes on

I don't know or care about those people. Of course, in spite of my efforts, I've been forced to learn a few details--like how Kate had to wait so long for this and how she's losing too much weight.

[theHandpuppet]

38. Same with me

I turn the channel the second some bit of insipid "news" about this wedding comes on. I'd rather watch a marathon of infomercials then that crap.

[rurallib]

3. I am only obsessed in that I want to see Kate's birth certificate

I think she is an alien from outer space sent to take over the world. Taking over the British royalty is step one.
(note to Trump - how was that?)

[dipsydoodle]

13. Piece of cake that

Start here : http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/ You need name, date of birth and place of birth.

Since its you who decided to take the piss now tell us all how to get the other one.

[rurallib]

39. jeez, thought I was dong a bit of sarcasm on Trump

sorry

[dipsydoodle]

45. Yes - I guess I missed your point.

Sorry.

:hi:

[Keith Bee]

4. Not this American

Liz Windsor and her brood can take a flying fuck at the Moon as far as I'm concerned.

[Poll_Blind]

5. Yep, that's my guess also. Just another indicator how out of touch the...

...media is with reality.

Back in the 80's with Charles and Dianna it really was a different world. In the last 30-odd years all this bullshit has lost a lot of it's excitement. It's just a vastly different world.

PB

[leveymg]

6. I won't watch it. Nobody invited me.

The Royals can go fornicate in an open carriage in front of the crowds and cameras for all I care. I have no more interest in watching them than the Royal horse droppings. :P

[damntexdem]

7. Well, I'm an American, and I'm obsessed with ...

avoiding media fawning on the wedding whereby an outmoded royal family claims to want to generate more of its spawn.

[MineralMan]

9. Not this American. (nt)

[LeftinOH]

10. Where are these 'obsessed' Americans? Nobody cares.

[Frank Cannon]

11. I couldn't give a rat's ass about this wedding, and I don't know anyone who does.

But since Charlie Sheen is laying low for now and Lindsay Lohan is going to be doing community service, how else is the media going to try to take our damn minds off of how we're getting screwed by the uberrich?

[A Simple Game]

42. I'll see your wedding

and raise you Charlie Sheen and Lindsay Lohan.

I don't want or need to hear about those two either.

[The Doctor.]

12. Wedding? What wedding?

Was I invited?

[Dulcinea]

14. I suppose some people are.

I'd like to see what the bride is wearing, but that's all. I can catch that at a later date.

As for the media, they're just hoping for more ad dollars.

[RevStPatrick]

15. No we're not.

Certain segments of the M$M are obsessed with trying to get Americans to be obsessed with the royal wedding, in order to distract us from REAL news. But for the most part, Americans just don't give a shit...

[intaglio]

16. I profoundly apologise

My country is responsible for this most egregious insult to the world's intelligence.

Personally I hope to get through it by frequent renditions of "The People's Flag".

Forgive us - please!

[dipsydoodle]

17. They are part of OUR Royal Family

so I'm sure why there would interest in the US either - The Commonwealth is a different matter.

It is expected to break all viewing records prior to becoming the most watched program in television history.

[SaveAmerica]

18. Not this merkin, I'm obsessed with overuse of Troops in ME, backslide of Education,

Senior citizens who are struggling to eat, and my own little family that is going through all of the above.

I'd rather watch the final shuttle lift-off.

[BOG PERSON]

19. lyndon larouche must be spinning in his grave about now...

[BOG PERSON]

20. the US media understand stupid people like to hear about the royal wedding

they also think most americans are kind of stupid.

[monmouth]

21. The media got a free trip to London, that's what it's really about...n/t

[Journeyman]

22. You mean the wedding involving that incredibly successful band of German hemophiliacs?. . .

Where a desiccated empire pauses once again to witness the coronation of yet another welfare mother? (For what else do you call someone who receives additional monies for spawning?)

Ah, I remember the last silly spectacle, when we Irish lined the route of the circus parade and shouted our best wishes:

"Up Chuck, and Di! Up Chuck, and Di!"

Do you think the American media will cover us this time around?




(thanks to The Daily Show for the hemophiliac gibe)

[Blue_In_AK]

23. Really?

I haven't given it a second thought. I wish the best for them, but I hope Kate is prepared for the publicity that she'll be subjected to for the rest of her life. .

[JHB]

24. Frankly my dear...

:shrug:

[eShirl]

26. they're hoping to drum up TV ratings to Chuck-and-Di levels

[Dulcinea]

46. There's no fairy-tale quality here.

Just a couple of twentysomethings who'll hopefully have a good life together.

[devilgrrl]

27. You got that right!

eom

[KeepItReal]

28. I like the UK and travel there alot. Still no interest in this wedding.

It shows how messed up our media is falling over themselves to make this some kind of event.

Andrew and Harry are nowhere near as compelling as their mom and her "storybook wedding". That was kind of neat back in the days.

The London Olympics, however, will get my attention for sure.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

29. When will they stop lying? It's a rhetoric question.....

[hlthe2b]

30. we can't escape it.... the media is obsessed.

[hlthe2b]

31. Should be like the SuperBowl... With a competing Doggy Wedding

with all the trimmings and coverage....;)

[cbdo2007]

32. I'm much more interested in Royal divorces than weddings. I'll tune in in 10 years.

[Warren DeMontague]

33. According to who? Tina Brown?

File my household under "don't give a shit", too.

[dana_b]

34. not one, not two, and not even three shits

with all of the real shit that is happening in this world, this is a non event to me.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

35. I don't know anyone who actually cares.

I'm involved in with a very diverse group of people due to my job. The only thing anyone has said is they wish it were over already so they could stop hearing about it all the time. :shrug:

[theHandpuppet]

36. Totally agree

The media is trying like hell to grab some headlines but not a single person I know gives a rat's ass about this event.

[upi402]

37. Even a missing white hottie wont bump this monster story!!!

our entire nation depends upon this breathless and vital coverage!
:sarcasm:

Unions?... no time, move along.

[Frank Cannon]

44. Where are the shark attacks when we need them?

I swear, those great whites are like cops. They seem to be everywhere, but then when you really need one, they're never around.

[Kat45]

40. The local news station in Boston even sent a reporter there.

It's bad enough that the national news programs cover it constantly, but why the heck does a LOCAL news station cover it at all, never mind actually send a reporter to England to cover it? It's been on the local news every night, sometimes the top story!

And yes, I'm one who doesn't give a shit about the royals at all, wedding or not. I remember I had one friend who was quite interested in the royals, though I don't know why, but I don't know anybody else who gives a shit.

[HopeHoops]

41. What royal wedding?

:shrug:

[Pool Hall Ace]

43. I find pretty much all weddings boring

especially if i don't even know the couple. :boring:

Edited to add that if Wills and Kate decided to do a drive-through wedding in Vegas . . . complete with their carriage . . . that would be cool. :thumbsup:

[Bill McBlueState]

47. I've heard a TON of people

going on about how uninterested they are in the wedding.

When I'm *really* not interested in something, I just don't talk about it. :shrug:

[Ganja Ninja]

48. I haven't met one person that has even mentioned it, not one. n/t

[Faryn Balyncd]

49. I have yet to hear a single person say ANYTHING about it, or express ANY interest.

[Lucian]

50. It's my guilty pleasure this week.

But I'm not obsessed about it.