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Website Review: Saturday Night Live: US Election Debates!

Written by Bruce Rozenhart on October 17, 2008

Link:
Saturday Night Live –  www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live
Canadian Air Farce – www.airfarce.com
This Hour Has 22 Minutes – www.cbc.ca/22minutes
The Rick Mercer Report – www.cbc.ca/mercerreport
Rating: ★★★★½

The best in political lampooning HAS to be Saturday Night Live. And the top lampoon was Tina Fey’s so-called lampooning of Sarah Palin that was in fact just a complete copy of what Palin actually said.

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Article Review: Depth in US Politics?

Written by Bruce Rozenhart on October 17, 2008

Article: Beyond the Palin
Source:  The New Yorker
By:  Hendrik Hertzberg
Rating: ★★★★★

The New Yorker magazine has consistently delivered high-quality, in-depth analyses of the US presidential campaign that should serve as a model to any other publication.

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The First 7 Seconds…

Written by Bruce Rozenhart on October 17, 2008

I turn on the TV and I see Stephane Dion in campaign mode, and I feel sorry for him.  I then see a commercial with “sweater-man” and wonder what the hell he’s trying to do.  Then I see Jack Layton, and wonder what world he’s in thinking he would ever be Prime Minister.  And then the height of irrelevance pops up in a newscast – Gilles Duceppe – talking about nothing that relates to me as a Western Canadian.  And then there’s Elizabeth May earnestly trying…

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Political Impressions: Deep Down, They’re Shallow

Written by Maurice Bridge on October 17, 2008

“There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image; make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity.”
-Outer Limits intro, ABC-TV, 1963

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The Endurance of Impression

Written by Joanna Piros on October 17, 2008

The thing about first impressions is that they last.  If they didn’t we would forever be reassessing what we know and think we know about someone or some organization, like Alzheimer patients who have to rediscover the world on a daily basis.

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Book Review: Won’t Get Fooled AGAIN (A voter’s guide to seeing through the lies, getting past propaganda, and choosing the best leaders)

Written by Bruce Rozenhart on October 17, 2008


Won’t Get Fooled AGAIN (A voter’s guide to seeing through the lies, getting past propaganda, and choosing the best leaders).
By: Joseph H. Boyett
Rating: ★★★★½

“Unfortunately, we like simple leaders.  We vote for them again and again.  We reject the complex candidate and embrace the simpleminded.  Wishy-washy, flip-flopping, behaviorally complex people would make better and more responsible leaders, but we reject them.  We can and should do better.”

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