It’s not because the coverage is shallow, silly, and trivial, full of misleading promos, self-aggrandizing fluff, and talking bubbleheads.<\/p>\n
It’s because every commercial break right now is wall-to-wall smear ads which paint every single candidate for every office as a scum-sucking lobbyist\/politician\/zillionaire\/special interest pawn\/Simon Legree\/tax-raiser\/zillionaire-coddling cretin.<\/p>\n
Except for the few exceptions that have the candidate painted as a just-plain-folk candidate for sainthood. Particularly in comparison to that other guy, who’s a scum-sucking etc.<\/p>\n
I despise all <\/i>these people. Even the ones I don’t know anything about.<\/p>\n
Feh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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