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...functioned to fight against corruption and to prevent politicians from becoming too privy to the "wishes of large contributors." Although the intent of the decision was laudable, the case failed to touch upon the heart of corruption in politics today--the prevalence of unregulated "soft money" contributions. Limiting one channel of political contributions is pointless if you're going to leave another wide open...
...Well - it's about the weather, anyway. For the past 24 hours, the cable news networks have turned into so many franchises of The Weather Channel, hauling out the Doppler machines and precipitation maps almost as often as those goofy electoral maps. (More on those later.) Between CNN, MSNBC and Fox, we've heard more about the weather in the Dakotas than we're likely to hear in a lifetime. (I for one was surprised to learn there are times in the upper Great Plains when it doesn't snow.) MSNBC supplemented footage of Fred Rogers going to the polls...
...What the weather focus does do is reinforce the notion that the election is so close you can't dare change that channel - so close a butterfly flapping its wing in the Amazon jungle could throw Oregon to Bush! Which of course may actually be true this time, but besides driving up ratings, it provides yet more butt-coverage for any unfortunate earlier prognostications. (Last night, many of the pundits were practically giving the election to Bush. If they're proved wrong, they could always blame it on the balmy weather in Miami.) And, during the downtime when polls...
...Same Funeral, New Corpse If you are not watching CBS at this moment, for God's sake, get up and change the channel now. It's getting into the wee morning hours, and that means we're reaching the sweet spot with Dan Rather, whose delivery is getting stranger, more rambling and Shatneresque by the moment. The man just delivered a sentence that may have lasted a full minute. "John making the point - because the Gore people making the point to them - that they cling to the idea - and it's not too far-fetched - they cling to the idea...
...Gentlemen, both of you have given Me a lot of ink in this campaign, so now I'm going to reward you. I've secured you both 15 minutes of air time tonight, on every single channel in the country (except Fox). You should get at least an 80 share, which gives you an audience of maybe 100 million eligible voters. More than enough for a mandate for either of you - even after I make sure Nader gets his 5 percent. I'd like to see democracy in the millennium get off to a good start...