Manufactured popularity of presidential candidates
Jerry Day makes a good case of how the popularity of major candidates in the U.S. 2008 election has been pretty much entirely manufactured, while a genuinely popular candidate (Ron Paul) has been suppressed:
Kinda reminds me of this scene from Futurama (Season 2, Episode Raging Bender):
[Teenage Leela takes on two guys and floors them. Her teacher, a green alien called Fnog watches.]
Fnog: Excellent. Bill, Keith, you will go to Junior Championships. Bill, congratulate Keith when he regains consciousness.
Leela: But, Master Fnog, I can beat these dorks with one eye closed.
Fnog: Perhaps. But there is more to winning than beating your opponent. You lack the will of the warrior.
Leela: What do you mean? Watch this!
[She kicks Bill in the stomach.]
Bill: (crying) Ow!
Fnog: No girl has the will of a warrior. You have the will of a housewife or, at best, the schoolmarm.
Leela: That's it. I'll take you on right now.
Fnog: Very well. But, you see, I have the will of the warrior. Therefore…
Kinda reminds me of this scene from Futurama (Season 2, Episode Raging Bender):
[Teenage Leela takes on two guys and floors them. Her teacher, a green alien called Fnog watches.]
Fnog: Excellent. Bill, Keith, you will go to Junior Championships. Bill, congratulate Keith when he regains consciousness.
Leela: But, Master Fnog, I can beat these dorks with one eye closed.
Fnog: Perhaps. But there is more to winning than beating your opponent. You lack the will of the warrior.
Leela: What do you mean? Watch this!
[She kicks Bill in the stomach.]
Bill: (crying) Ow!
Fnog: No girl has the will of a warrior. You have the will of a housewife or, at best, the schoolmarm.
Leela: That's it. I'll take you on right now.
Fnog: Very well. But, you see, I have the will of the warrior. Therefore…