As an illustration of how far mainstream media (if one dares call FoxNews mainstream, I can’t call it anything but the “Propaganda Channel” without vomiting) has gone astray from real news reporting, FoxNews has released a telephone opinion poll. This poll, obviously a presidential election poll, also included 2 questions which refer to Paris Hilton! Now maybe FoxNews is just trying to save a dime by including their Paris queries along with the political queries. I’m guessing Rupert wants to know if they are hurting themselves by reporting so much Paris Hilton ”news”.

But Omigod! Gag me with a pitchfork. Somehow I find placing presidential politics in the same space as Paris Hilton disgusting. BTW, another creepy question FoxNews asked was “Which one of the following candidates would you most want to watch on television for four years?”. They might have also asked “Who has the best haircut?” or “Which candidate is your dream date?”.

Now here’s some disturbing data from that poll:

  1. Rudy Guiliani is the leading Republican contender. Scary-read about what a liar this guy is. But also pathetic.
  2. Most people still get their news from the TV set. Eeeuuuww!
  3. Nobody seems to know who Ron Paul is. (Too bad, he’s the ONLY GOP candidate with a liberal doses of integrity and vision.)
  4. Al Gore has a huge negative opinion base along with his positive one. I take this as a lack of acceptance about the REALITY of global warming, not his un-candidacy.
  5. And finally what I already know, but am still so disappointed to see: “Do you think a qualified third party independent candidate has a reasonable chance of winning a presidential election or not?” — The answer is still NO. Too fucking bad for America. The only hope for our country’s politics lies beyond hopelessly lost Democratic and Republican parties…

I’m not going to link to the poll. The thought of giving FoxNews a link is too repugnant to me.

Don’t despair, as any brilliant demographer will tell you, the edgecity gets closer to downtown every day.