Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : Impeachment=" Insult to all Voters" -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Shoot1st who wrote (474)	12/21/1998 7:01:00 PM
From: Don Pueblo	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 2390

Here's what I think, shoot. I think the media has the people in this country whipped into a frenzy. I drove to work today, same as before. No guns going off. The media in this country, I mean what used to be called the "mainstream media" is now in a position where they can actually control events. It's been going on for a while. The last big one was the O.J. thing. Now we have "journalists" like Geraldo Rivera (just one that comes to mind, there are conservative freakazoids too) that are treating this Clinton thing like it's a circus. I actually got a little torqued out yesterday and made a snotty post to a guy, Addi, whose stock market posts I've been reading for a while, and I regret that. I have a very good friend on SI that is 180 degrees opposite me on the Clinton thing. But I still like him, it's OK with me what he believes. I don't think less of him because we don't agree about this topic. It seems like regular ordinary friendly people are getting all whipped up into a frenzy over this. Not to mention the lunatic fringe, that sits in the middle and gets really, really nasty with anyone that fails to agree with them. "Shut Up You Piece Of Dung, You Are Wrong And I Am Right So Shut Up". It's like the media people want to cause turmoil. Maybe so they can sell advertising. They ought to send employees out with advertising banners to hold up next to car wrecks so the Lookie Lous will see the ad. I see the shows on CNBC and CNN where the guests just yell at each other and won't even let the other person finish a sentence! It's like little kids in a sandbox! It's the General Statements that cause the trouble I think. The media is great at this. I've seen a few politicians do it too; "The American people think this", "the Democrats think this", "The conservatives think this." None of that is really true. The thread header on this thread says, "Insult to all voters" That's not true. Some voters, yes. All voters, no. What is really true is that every single person is different, and they are allowed to have their own opinion. When somebody tells me, "Republicans are liars and cheats and immoral", I feel like he is saying that to me, and I ain't that. So he's a liar. Then we have the people that put words in your mouth. I say, "It's a great night tonight!" and some yo yo says, "Ah! So what you are telling me is that you are a vampire and suck blood. I knew it." Why not just read what somebody wrote? Why not just listen to what a person says and not get all psycho about "what they are trying to say but aren't saying"? They don't see that a few skuzzballs are trying to piss the rest of us off on purpose. It's dumb. This whole thing is a media circus. I'm convinced of it. The jerkoffs that sit on SI calling people names and being snotty are not helping things either. The media's goal, it seems to me, is, "We don't care what the story is, we just want to get people lathered up enough so they will tune in tomorrow night to see who got killed while they were outside." It just seems so stupid and senseless to me.