Wed, Nov 25 2009
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Mike Pound: Big-time media folks vs. the normal people “Wolf, it’s too early to say what impact Sarah Palin will have on the presidential race.”
“When will you be able to say what impact Sarah Palin will have on the presidential race?” “Monday. Wednesday at the latest.” Now people who aren’t big-time media folks — and by that I mean normal people — figure that the election will pretty much be the final say on what impact Sarah Palin will have on the presidential race. Normal people will figure that, since the election is two months away, it’s probably a little early, and a tad silly, for big-time media folks to be making goofy predictions about the election that will only serve to make them look even goofier after the election. It’s not that normal people don’t want big-time media folks to talk about the election, it’s that they want them to talk about election issues. They don’t really want to talk about Barack Obama’s bowling abilities or Sarah Palin’s glasses, or Joe Biden’s hair plugs or the fact that John McCain’s Social Security Number is 4. Normal folks would prefer that the big-time media folks instead talk about things like Barack Obama’s thoughts on the economy, or John McCain’s ideas on Social Security (by the way, John’s Social Security Number really isn’t 4. It’s 17.) I think normal folks would like to hear the big-time media folks talk about what Joe Biden thinks about Iran, or what Sarah Palin thinks about the environment. That’s what normal folks want to hear the big-time media folks talk about. All that other stuff? That unimportant, petty stuff? Well, they should leave that stuff for shallow, uninformed goofballs. You know, guys like me. I promise you that there is no piece of election gossip too trivial, too unsubstantiated, too unimportant or too offensive for me. I will track down those trivial, unsubstantiated, unimportant and offensive bits of information and deliver them to you in order to make you a more informed voter. Don’t thank me, it’s what I do. That way the big-time media folks can leave Alaska (Motto: I mean, we’re Alaska. Why would you want to come here?) and go do what they do best. Assuming, of course, we get some more hurricanes. 
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