Guess which controversial figure is the most important thing on CNN right now?

[Bicoastal]

A Hint:
A wealthy, powerful American, once beloved by many, but now loathed by most of the country, save a few die-hard followers. It has been whispered that this person has a singularly nasty disposition in private; also, despite openly breaking the law on multiple ocassions, this uniquely privileged public figure always seems to get away with it--at least, until quite recently.

Dick Cheney, right?

WRONG! Despite all the hot water the Veep has been in recently, both CNN the network and CNN.com seem to feel that we'd rather hear all about someone else's exploits instead of uncovering Cheney's very major crimes.

That other person? Why, Paris Hilton, silly! Who else?

(a la Homer) "Stupid TV! Be more informative!"

[rpannier]

1. Dick...Cheney???

Who is...Dick Cheney??? :sarcasm:

[NYC]

3. The answer to your question:

Sleeping Beauty, Tom Thumb, and Quasimodo were all talking one day.

Sleeping Beauty said, "I believe myself to be the most beautiful girl in
the world."

Tom Thumb said, "I must be the smallest person in the world."

Quasimodo said, "I absolutely have to be the most disgusting person in the
world."


So they all decided to go to the Guinness Book of World Records
to have their claims verified.


Sleeping Beauty went in first and
came out looking deliriously happy.


"It's official,
I AM the most beautiful girl in the world."


Tom Thumb went next and emerged triumphant,

"I am now officially the smallest person in the world."


Sometime later, Quasimodo came out looking utterly confused and said

"Who the hell is Dick Cheney?!"

[libodem]

8. That was good

thanks for the laugh

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. news by poling. er, polling. There's a pole there somewheres.

I'd bet.

say, didn't Paris promise the whirled that being in the pubic "I" was too tough and that she would be stop the world and get off in two years, just about two years ago?

I think we should hold her. . .

to her promise, if nothing else.

[MonteLukast]

4. One little difference.

Despite openly breaking the law on multiple ocassions, this uniquely privileged public figure always seems to get away with it--at least, until quite recently.

Nope, sorry, as far as I can tell, Cheney's STILL getting away with it, unlike Paris.

[Bucky]

5. I wanna go on record as saying I've never loved nor loathed Ms Hilton

There's always gonna be some super richie who gets ridiculous amounts of TV coverage just for showing up.

It's really not that hard to itnore it.
.

[emilyg]

6. Ms Hilton means nothing in my life.

[AlCzervik]

10. same here, makes no difference in the quality of my everyday life and

when i want news i get it from news sources and not one of cnn's "opinion" shows.

[jobycom]

7. DUers really don't get it, do they?

Every post like yours, and now mine, encourage CNN and every other network to talk about her more. When you complain about CNN, you are talking about them. You are watching them. You are encouraging others to do so. That's what they want, that's exactly why they are in business. It's been said that when Congresscritters get letters or emails on a topic, they basically put the "ayes" on one pile and the "nays" in the other and udge which stack is higher. The media does it differently. They take every letter, email, blog reference, etc, and they put them all in one stack to see how high it is. They don't care if every single mention of their coverage of Hilton is negative. They only care that you mention her. That means you are watching.

There's a really bad sports radio show host called Cowlin Cowherd (not sure on the spelling). He's always wrong on his predictions, he's got less insight into human beings than anyone I've ever heard, he's so right wing that it affects his sports stories. Every day he picks some topic, and takes the most disgusting, most extreme, and usually most wrong, position on that topic he possibly can. And most of the calls he takes are from people telling him he's fucking stupid. And he never admits he's wrong. You could quote him the Encyclopedia Brittanica and Sports Illustrated proving absolutely that his facts are wrong, and he'll argue that he's right and that your opinion is stupid. And that's all he does--disagree with his callers in an attempt to piss them off. The madder they get, the more people call in and tell him he's an idiot, and the higher his ratings go. He even states this from time to time, laughing at his audience as though he's playing them all for saps.

That's what CNN does with it's Paris Hilton coverage. They want you to be pissed off. They want you to complain to them about it. They want you to go on Democratic Underground and say just how obscene their focus is. And they want you to hate Paris Hilton herself, because that makes you even madder that they are covering her (same reason they like Ann Coulter's vile comments). That means they've done their job.

When they've failed at their job is when you do like I do. Turn them off, never turn them back on. That's their biggest fear. That's their only fear.

[upi402]

9. But I bet they didn't want me to donate to Edwards as a result of Coulter

Which I did;

https://johnedwards.com/action/contribute/form

CNN may find the law of unintended consequences coming back to bite them.

[jobycom]

11. Sure they did.

It meant you responded to them. Why do you think Edwards is so eager to take on Coulter now? Because it's paying off for him. Edwards hopes they put her on 24/7 and that she spends all that time insulting him. It's the only limelight he's been able to get for weeks now.

And CNN doesn't give a flip who you give your money to. Reacting to them means they have you.

[upi402]

12. Nah, CNN most definitely doesn't have me. I've been onto the MSM since Raygun

But I bet they really don't want Edwards to surge as a reaction to their exploiting Coulter's spew.

Of course Edwards will use the opportunity. He doesn't take corporate contributions, so he needs to.