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To: Follies who wrote (114150)	11/8/2015 2:11:24 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Respond to of 220043

Television and newspapers don't make stupid people say stupid and embarrassing things, they're merely a megaphone allowing far more people to hear, see and read the embarrassing stupidity. A video of bizarre and stupid people like the stupid housewives of Carbunkle Quarter is in fact so morbidly fascinating that it has been the basis for "reality shows". In contrast a video of intelligent people can be fascinating educational and entertaining. Only the people portrayed determine whether they're captured on video being a buffoonish train wreck or an admirable and engaging person you'd like to know. Fact checking though is a journalistic drudgery which yields few interesting results until your subject is a charlatan. When fact checking a mountebank, dull speeches suddenly become uproarious comedy, a clown who becomes ever funnier every time they open their mouth. The only safe choice for the fool is to say nothing, because they're betrayed by their every word.