I was watching a news channel and 10 minutes was given to speculating about why Barak Obama no longer wears his lapel flag pin. They were trying to understand the signal he was sending to the populace.
The press seems to think that we as a nation are more interested in getting out cues from images rather than intellectual ideology. A more cynical person may believe that the press is attempting to dumb us down. And okay maybe it's me as I am actually responding to this story.
Hey press guys, since you are checking to see who has pins and who doesn't, let's be sure to know where they come from. Some of the ones I looked at were manufactured in China. THAT wouldn't be patriotic, not to mention the lead that may be in the paint. That would be dangerous to all the babies they are trying to kiss.
2 comments:
Wow. How disturbing...they focus on his lapel pin but not the issues he is discussing? That's sad. Wow.
Maybe it got lost at the dry cleaners? The point is that when there is no news, the media needs to make some. That's why we have the Paris Hiltons of the world. And yes, we Americans as a whole have gotten dumb enough to spend our time thinking more about lapel pins then what a person's words and actions are saying.
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