wombat_socho

while I am not really a bash-the-press person, because I
see it's importance, and I think that it is doing about as good
(and bad) a job as the other "institutions" of government and
society, there is no question that the press needs to sell
newspapers, so to speak, and some times you can see that in
their coverage.

The thing that you can see them doing right now is working hard
to start a fight or two - because fights sell papers/tv time/etc.

Mitt Romney - the press is all over the "he is a MORMAN he is a
MORMAN" then turn quickly to the Catholic "doesn't that burn you
up skandalize you, make you see RED RED RED!?!??!" turn to public
"magic underwear oh my good! what is that about? used to be
poly-whatever that is doesn't that scare you? what about THE CHILDREN?"
wrings hands and falls to knees "oh the humanity!" jumps up with microphone
in the face "what you got to say to the folks out there?

i tend to agree with Wombat - most christians will see past the differences
and realize that "mormons are certainly good god-fearing folk, if a little odd"

My opinion (to separate from Wombat so as not to slosh him with the slop) -
only the moron-far-far-far-right will bite on this and half of them only because
they want the attention (and half of them, unfortunately, because they are dumb
as rocks)

As to the polls, they are mental masturbation; they mean little or nothing. Once in
a while you can get a simple question that can be possed in a simple way and polled
by an org withh no dog in the fight, and that might mean something, but for the most
part polls should be ignored by the serious. That is NOT to say that the will of the
people should be ignored! Just that there need to be other ways, and unfortunately
they are more work and expense than simple polls, but there you are...

doug