Remember last week they were all talking about ‘Obama fatigue’? “Are people tired of hearing about Obama, all the coverage of Obama?”
And I must admit I have been a bit uninspired. But it isn’t just Obama, it’s all of it. If you stop to think about it for a second, the fundamental ‘fatigue’ doesn’t emanate from the candidates. It is a fatigue with the COVARAGE of the campaign that has become annoying.
What came to my mind was this, what if you were watching the Super Bowl, and the commentators never talked about the game or the plays, but spent all their time talking about peripheral things? There you are, to see the biggest, most important game in football, and they are talking about how the players’ hair looks, what their wives are wearing, what their church is, the color of the uniforms, the stadium and fans, blah, blah, blah. You are there to see the game, to hear the plays, to understand the calls, and the penalties, why they got them, etc.
In the ‘coverage’ of this campaign, they never get to the issues and the facts; it is all about the superficialities. If they were discussing ‘drill here, drill now’ I think we’d be listening; what the Dep’t. of Energy says about it, what the oil industry says about its effect on the actual price of gas, the timeline, and the actual realities of what the candidates are saying, do they make any sense. Instead, they never get to those real issues. They never have an in-depth discussion of the things that we want to hear about, what we need to know to vote intelligently, what we really care about that will make a difference in our lives and the world. They don’t discuss the actual issues. They keep us on the periphery and never get to the substance. And THAT is the source of the fatigue – those empty headed pundits asking those inconsequential questions about unimportant topics.
Get to the game boys, the time is running out.
posted by pdsimdars 
