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May 18, 2008
Poll Cat
So after putting his foot down on Friday about how pathetic it is that the media is ignoring the story that the president authorized torture, Stantis spent Saturday whining about how we don't talk enough and now he's spending Sunday bitching about polls. Ah yes, gotta love hypocrisy.
Hey Stantis, do you REALLY want to make a point about how terrible President Bush is and how outrageous it is that he's okay with torture? Spend a week on it speaking the truth. Make headlines with your comic strip. Get people talking. Use your comic strip the way others do - as a way to entertain, but also as a way to send a message and get people thinking.
But you won't. You'll twist your arm patting yourself on the back for spending one measly day on an important issue, then spend the rest of the time (like this weekend) complaining about stuff that we're all bored with. Yeah, polls aren't perfect. Nobody says they are. And the media spends way too much time acting as if they are perfect, which is why polls have such a bad reputation. Did we really need you to go over that again without offering any kind of real insight? Especially since the problem isn't with the polls, it's with the talking heads who act as if they're the be all/end all when they're just a rough estimate.
Let me ask you something, Stantis: ten years from now, when your kids ask you about your work on Prickly City, what are you going to tell them? Here is an opportunity for you to really make a difference. Be that one voice in the media that makes a huge deal about our president okaying torture. Heck, there are HUNDREDS of controversies surrounding this president and your Republican party that you can talk about and make people aware of - since the regular media won't do it. I'm not saying you have to disavow your own party - I understand that you endorse pretty much everything they stand for, no matter how insane. But even you revealed on Friday that there are some things you're against. Why not take a stand?
Instead, two weeks from now we'll get jokes about Ted Kennedy having a seizure. Because that's how Stantis rolls. And we don't need any poll to tell us what we already know: Prickly City sucks.
Comments
Shoot, I'll try to work in a joke about Ted Kennedy, seizures, lobotomies, car crashes, unauthorized torture, Terri Schiavo, & Larry Craig on Wednesday. Don't steal my thunder!
Posted by: Sacki at May 18, 2008 10:36 PM
