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Pots and Kettles ... Stinging Nettles

Erica Jong has a great post on HuffingtonPost.com including this excellent paragraph:
Our magazines and newspapers are so dumbed down that they never discuss issues, only stereotype or attack or puff up candidates -- and all for the most idiotic things -- like their marriages, which in truth we know nothing about -- or their weight or their clothes or their hair.

They don't discuss brains, intelligence, psychological maturity, but only who's up or down in the polls, cuter in photos, who misted up, cried or didn't cry, said "my friends" like Reagan or mimicked Bill Clinton's style or JFK's or whomever's.

Our press is a disgrace.

Now I read HuffPo every day as my usual news source after scanning my iGoogle. Today's post  on my own blog is about my friend Tony (who emailed me about Erica's post) and about Erica herself.

With those thoughts in my mind, and not having gone to work today, I went back to Huffington Post at 2:00 PM. Suddenly it struck me.

As much as I like Huffpo and read most  of Ariana's writings, I see that Huffpo seems to have the same problem with relevancy that Erica describes in her own article about disgraced press. Check out the headlines on today's Huffpo front page at 2:00 PM.

No More Mr. Nice Guy: Obama Mocks Hillary In Stand Up Routine

Hillary Opens Up To Tyra About Adultery

Chris Matthews Apologizes To Hillary

...Michael Lewis's Vasectomy

...CNN's King Converts To Judaism

Racist Obama Jokes Leaves Banquet Crowd Gasping

Kucinich-Supporting Hecklers Interrupt Bill Maher On "The Tonight Show"

Obama's Wife Gets Vegas Night Out

Obama Volunteers Transform San Fran Bong Shop To New HQ

Watch: Oprah Talks Masturbation

Anna Lambasts Hillary For Rejecting Vogue

Huckabee Embraces Confederate Flag for White Vote

Racist Obama Joke Leaves Banquet Crowd Gasping

Bill Clinton: Super Surrogate

Reagan Advisors: Obama A Bit Like The Gipper

You gotta sell ... I gotta sell ... pots and kettles ... stinking nettles.

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