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Wisdom from Jamaica Gleaner

By j7uy5 on November 6, 2006.

href="http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20061104/cleisure/cleisure1.html">Elevating
trivia over substance

published: Saturday | November 4, 2006



There is a deepening triviality in the conduct of American politics,
which should be a matter of great concern to the citizens of the United
States. In this process, form trumps substance and minor side issues
are often the subject of long and tedious debate while fundamental
matters get shunted to the sidelines. It is a kind of politics that
finds congruence and context in this growing American notion of
'infotainment' and well-suited to the predilections of the purveyors of
mental sloth, the media pundits...



They were referring specifically to the flap caused by John Kerry's
comments, but it could just as well have been applied to 90% of the
crud that has been spouted by the politicians and their media in the
run-up to the election.



Leave it to the Jamaicans to put href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/4309752.html">Karl
Rove in his place.  Our own newspapers aren't up to
the task.


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