fear factor
NBC should put that wuss Joe Rogan on the bench; or maybe send him down to
the minor leagues on some tame TV game show like "Weakest Link." (Is that
still on?) Fear Factor has a new primetime host.
Obviously, the new king of fear and fright is Vice President Dick
Cheney...
The VeeP made it sound loud and clear, earlier this week that we should be
afraid, especially if Americans pull the wrong lever (or dimple the wrong
chad) in November.
We're now at that point where we're making that kind of decision for
the next 30 or 40 years, and it's absolutely essential that eight weeks
from today, on November 2nd, we make the right choice. Because if we make
the wrong choice, then the danger is that we'll get hit again. That we'll
be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United
States, and that we'll fall back into the pre-9/11 mind set if you will,
that in fact these terrorist attacks are just criminal acts, and that
we're not really at war. I think that would be a terrible mistake for
us. (
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A5037-2004Sep8?language=printer">WashingtonPost.com,
Sept. 8, 2004, apparently transcribed by the
href="http://www.fdch.com/">Federal Document Clearing House.)
While we're on the topic, Kathleen Parker, columnist for the Orlando
Sentinel, seems to be smoking something pretty good these days:
href="http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/sunnews/news/opinion/9636509.htm">Media
overstates Cheney comments. Yeah, sure, overstated. A columnist who
ends a column with "what ain't broke is often best left unfixed" is one
about as unoriginal and uncompelling as I have ever read.
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