Hitch is back at it, this time understandably whacking media hype along with the candidates. Iowa is stupid, even more so with CNN timpani booming in the background to their Breaking Political News, every 15 minutes. The same goes for FOXNews.
Here's Hitch: "I was in Des Moines and Ames in the early fall, and I must say that, as small and landlocked and white and rural as Iowa is, I would be happy to give an opening bid in our electoral process to its warm and generous and serious people. But this is not what the caucus racket actually does. What it does is give the whip hand to the moneyed political professionals, to the full-time party hacks and manipulators, to the shady pollsters and the cynical media boosters, and to the supporters of fringe and crackpot candidates... The process might be a good way for Iowa to pick its party convention delegates, though I frankly doubt even that. It is an absolutely terrible way in which to select candidates for the presidency, and it makes the United States look and feel like a banana republic both at home and overseas.
Go Rudy.
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
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Hitch is quite right. And, the way he presents it, it does sound like a racket between the press, the politicos, the consultants, and the goddam Iowans -- I mean, they must enjoy all the attention and greenbacks all those vultures bring, no?
Right on, AI. I think of Iowa as being a political epicenter about as much as I think of Dakota (North or South) as being the same. Iowa conjures up images of corn, not Big Time Politics.
...and even this morning, the scroll at the bottom of the FoxNews broadcast said in sensationalist tone,
"IOWA DECIDES 2008"
The caps suggested urgency, even yelling at us in our own living rooms.
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