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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Thursday, September 08, 2005

RE: Not So Fast

Of course, these artistes remain utterly oblivious of the poisonous concomitant of that speed, namely, the media's almost inane superficiality.

Yes indeed. This is also how we ended up with Cindy Sheehan and Natalee Holloway ad nauseum. Our media has bred an entire generation with attention spans no longer than the distance from one Burger King commercial to the next. Our media has bred an entire generation of people who believe whatever comes out of the magic, talking box, regardless of how insane, paranoid, or fantastic. It's what leads people to regurgitate utter gibberish about stolen elections, nonexistent gun violence incidents, cannibalism in New Orleans, and phonied up National Guard memos.

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