Comments on: Unusual Spin http://stengazette.org/wordpress/2004/10/13/unusual-spin/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:39:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: SG http://stengazette.org/wordpress/2004/10/13/unusual-spin/#comment-109 Fri, 01 Jul 2005 05:34:00 +0000 http://stengazette.org/wordpress/2004/10/13/unusual-spin/#comment-109 Sorry, friend, you <em>are</em> the only one. We've done a scientific study of bumper stickers over a period of about twenty years. Our conclusion is that they could <em>all</em> be replaced by a generic bumper sticker. It says (in red white and blue, of course) "I'm an idiot." Sorry, friend, you are the only one.

We’ve done a scientific study of bumper stickers over a period of about twenty years. Our conclusion is that they could all be replaced by a generic bumper sticker. It says (in red white and blue, of course) “I’m an idiot.”

]]> by: bumper sticker changed my life (NOT!) http://stengazette.org/wordpress/2004/10/13/unusual-spin/#comment-108 Fri, 01 Jul 2005 05:30:03 +0000 http://stengazette.org/wordpress/2004/10/13/unusual-spin/#comment-108 Has a bumber sticker or yard sign ever changed anyones opinion on who they are going to support or vote for? Or am I the only one who saw a Kerry/Edwards bumper sticker and said " Oh my God, I have been wrong all these years and now I must become a liberal"? Has a bumber sticker or yard sign ever changed anyones opinion on who they are going to support or vote for? Or am I the only one who saw a Kerry/Edwards bumper sticker and said ” Oh my God, I have been wrong all these years and now I must become a liberal”?

]]> by: SG http://stengazette.org/wordpress/2004/10/13/unusual-spin/#comment-107 Fri, 01 Jul 2005 05:24:50 +0000 http://stengazette.org/wordpress/2004/10/13/unusual-spin/#comment-107 Who'd a thunk it? Letter in this morning's paper (10/19/04): "[author of original letter] should know that the problem is even worse than he imagined! Recently, my son parked his car on the street in front of his house overnight, only to find his rear window shattered the next morning. Nothing was stolen, just the broken window. Unlike [the other guy], my son had no political signs in his window. "These liberal vandals are so hell-bent on forcing their agenda on the masses that they apparently broke his window for not having any sign to remove!" The paper has endorsed the Republican candidate and has a pronounced conservative bias; no doubt the above letter was printed because the editor thought it was anti-liberal. To their credit, they did publish (in the same issue) a big article about a man and his wife who were actually <em>caught </em>stealing lawn signs. The guy's wife was the getaway driver, with several dozen "liberal" signs and posters in the back of their pickup truck. The man was caught because he tripped over a chain across a driveway and fell, knocking himself unconscious. Need we say more? OK, why not. Every inch of newsprint that is devoted to hooliganism, stupidity, and looming voter fraud scandals, is space that is NOT devoted to news and the issues, but in fact provides a distraction from them. Whose interests does <em>that</em> serve? Who’d a thunk it? Letter in this morning’s paper (10/19/04):
“[author of original letter] should know that the problem is even worse than he imagined! Recently, my son parked his car on the street in front of his house overnight, only to find his rear window shattered the next morning. Nothing was stolen, just the broken window. Unlike [the other guy], my son had no political signs in his window.

“These liberal vandals are so hell-bent on forcing their agenda on the masses that they apparently broke his window for not having any sign to remove!”

The paper has endorsed the Republican candidate and has a pronounced conservative bias; no doubt the above letter was printed because the editor thought it was anti-liberal. To their credit, they did publish (in the same issue) a big article about a man and his wife who were actually caught stealing lawn signs. The guy’s wife was the getaway driver, with several dozen “liberal” signs and posters in the back of their pickup truck. The man was caught because he tripped over a chain across a driveway and fell, knocking himself unconscious. Need we say more?

OK, why not. Every inch of newsprint that is devoted to hooliganism, stupidity, and looming voter fraud scandals, is space that is NOT devoted to news and the issues, but in fact provides a distraction from them. Whose interests does that serve?

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