... for the very good reason that it's 99% garbage.
Believe it or not, I am at this moment writing a serious Post about McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission. But I got sidetracked, your Honor.
By this....
One of the things about Network TV is that they love to make fun of dumb people.
BUT they are themselves one of the strongest influences in the dumbing-down of America. They have to do this, first, to be able to keep Americans satisfied with a diet of Pablum (meaning baby-food) and second, to keep them in a state of mind to buy whatever crap the networks' corporate masters want them to buy this month, and necessarily not pay attention to what's being done to them by the 1%.
Therefore, in order to titillate their audience by mocking dumb people, they are forced to find people who are even dumber than the viewers.
I'm about to show you a video. Sadly, you will first have to sit through a pack of lies from Chevron, about how much money they are "putting back" (their words) into the economy. No mention of where they got that money from in the first place. Then you will have to tolerate a set-up from a dead-eyed used-car salesman (Jimmy Kimmel), who is paid millions of dollars to do this shit.
THEN you get to watch the video. It is funny. But it only works because they picked on drunks, stoners, and people whose minds were... elsewhere, then insulted them before making fools of them.
Go for it -
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/10/08/jimmy-kimmels-government-shutdown-demographic-study-video/?tid=up_next
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