BABloggee Matthew Kozachek sent me word of this video, which nails it.
Oh, those wacky intertoobs.
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January 18th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
HA! Pretty nailed indeed.
I love satires like that.
January 18th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
Yep, a friend sent me a link to one of his music videos last night, and after browsing through his other (amazingly funny but potentially NSFW) videos I stumbled on this one and just knew it was perfect for BA!
January 18th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Offtopic: Phil, the Texas Creationist museum is facing bankruptcy. They are auctioning off a Mastadon skull to bring in funds.
January 18th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
That is most excellent.
January 18th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
[...] The Bad Astronomer wrote an interesting post today on Let us think for yourself!Here’s a quick excerptBABloggee Matthew Kozachek sent me word of this video, which nails it. Oh, those wacky intertoobs. [...]
January 18th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
“I love satires like that.”
It was a satire?
January 18th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Really cracked me up when the Predator was shown when he say “Terrorists!”
Like many a satire, this is all too true. I see similar situations at the tech school I’m going to.
January 18th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
Moose’s rating: 5 tinfoil beanies.
January 18th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
This video is unfortunately accurate. My ex’s father would sit (and probably still does) in front of the tv for most of the day, digesting what ever it had to offer him and he’d formulate ‘thoughts’ and ‘ideas’ around what he’d watched.
January 18th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
Hmm I suppose the only question is, what can we do? I guess the answer is blog, but that’s rather passive compared to SOUND and GRAPHICS and Wolf Blitzer shouting at the top of his lungs throughout his show. Maybe we need to blog louder?
PS I don’t want to pimp my blog out but would people take a look at leave some comments in it?
January 20th, 2008 at 9:06 am
A good example of the situation can be summed up with the DEBATES that are nothing more than INFOMERCIALS.
ABC,owned by Disney, only allowed candidates who received contributions from Disney.
NBC, owned by GE, invited then uninvited candidates to their debate. When an invited/uninvited candidate got a federal judge to intervene, the Supreme Court of Nevada ruled that the corporation’s !st amendment rights were being violated and the candidate was refused taking part in the debate.
FOX, owned by an Austrailian decided a republican candidate could not be allowed to participate, even though he can raise 46 MIKKION in cotributions from individuals in 1 day.
Debates have become just infomercials for the corporations. Vote your conscience. Do not support corporate sponsors in upcoming elections.
January 21st, 2008 at 9:27 am
I virtually NEVER watch TV news. Most of my “news” is obtained from Jon Stewart, Steven Colbert and the Net. That way I get to laugh AND pick what I want to know about,,,
I will note, that when I first worked in Saudi Arabia(as a full timer) in the ’80s, there was NO tv entertainment or commercials. When I returned to the US on vacation, watching tv was very disorienting. Certainly made me “Feel like a Stranger”(Grateful Dead lyrics).
TV! Bread and circuses for the masses,,,how very Roman of us,,,
GAry 7
PS: On the other hand, I love SciFi.