Comments by "Serai3" (@Serai3) on "CNN"
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Idea for a scene from The West Wing:
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Josh and Sam walk into the Oval Office. Bartlet looks up from his papers and asks, "Why the long faces?" Josh and Sam glance at each other.
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"You want to tell him?" Josh asks.
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"I think you should tell him," Sam replies.
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Josh clears his throat. "Sir, it looks like Denmark says Greenland isn't for sale."
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Bartlet, visibly startled, says, "Well, I should hope not." Josh and Sam look at each other, then look away. "Are you telling me we were thinking of buying Greenland?" Bartlet asks incredulously.
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Sam murmurs, "I told you it wasn't a good idea." Josh talks over him, "Sir, we thought it might be worth looking into, what with all their... mineral resources... and..." He stops, frozen by Bartlet's stare.
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Leo comes in and asks what's going on.
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Bartlet replies, "It looks like Greenland isn't for sale."
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Leo glares at the two abashed staffers and says vehemently, "Well, I should hope not!"
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Thus ensues a three-minute lecture from Bartlet (aided by a pissed-off Leo) about North European economics as they relate to dumbass ideas like that, interrupted only when Abbie comes in and tells Jed to leave the boys alone and let them get back to recess.
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(No, it's my scene, you can't have it.)
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Gee, what might accomplish that without having to buy another sovereign nation's land? Hm, let me think. Maybe some kind of treaty, you know, where all the nations who oppose Russia's lust for dominance get together and commit to helping each other fight back. Hm, what would we call such a thing? An organization, maybe? They'd be based around the Atlantic, so that'd have to be in the name... Man, this is a poser, but I'm sure if we think REALLY FUCKING HARD, we can come up with the OBVIOUS FUCKING ANSWER that if Twitler had respected THE FUCKING TREATY THAT'S ALREADY THERE, nobody would have to be thinking about this shit because Russia WOULDN'T HAVE THE FUCKING POWER to do the heinous crap it's only getting away with because of the FUCKING INSANE PUPPET PUTIN MANAGED TO GET INTO THE WHITE HOUSE.
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A lot of the reason for that separation, at least in terms of media, is the rise of cable and now the internet, which have cracked and separated the media people take in. Back in the 60's and 70's, there were only THREE national television channels, and each area would have maybe five local channels. That was all there was, so everyone watched pretty much the same programs, saw the same news reports, etc. The news programs themselves were produced because when we only had the airwaves, the government REQUIRED that television networks produce a certain amount of content per day (the news programs) that were NOT ALLOWED TO MAKE MONEY. They were solely produced for the public benefit, and ratings had nothing to do with it. With the rise of cable, that ended, and "the news" became just another money maker, and thus less and less trustworthy as time went on, until now we have a whole network devoted to nothing but propaganda, something that would have unthinkable for most of the 20th century, when such programming was relegated to the backwaters of local radio. There was no universal electronic communication forum, and certainly no means by which anyone, no matter how ignorant or deluded or dangerous, could easily disseminate their views - if you wanted information outside of the news, you had to go to a physical location like a library, and disseminating information meant expensive and time-consuming and most of all, LIMITED means like the post office. Now people can take in media streams that are wholly separate, and so you have a populace whose segments literally believe the world is completely different from what the "other guys" think it is. I honestly don't see any way out of this for America other than the complete crash of our entire media universe. There simply is no way to unite our country anymore. This is what moguls like Rupert Murdoch have done to our world, and we may well all end up burning in a nuclear holocaust because a tiny handful of people care more about their own power and wealth than about anyone else.
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