Comments on: Why Doesn’t Mickey Mouse Wear An American Flag Pin? http://www.newsdissector.com/blog/2008/04/27/why-doesnt-mickey-mouse-wear-an-american-flag-pin/ Danny Schechter's daily media dissections Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:31:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.9 by: Little Colt in NYC http://www.newsdissector.com/blog/2008/04/27/why-doesnt-mickey-mouse-wear-an-american-flag-pin/#comment-31202 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:05:39 +0000 http://www.newsdissector.com/blog/2008/04/27/why-doesnt-mickey-mouse-wear-an-american-flag-pin/#comment-31202 schechter was a 'new immigrant'? and here we thought he was born in the bronx, nyc. ("Add the new immigrants (of which I was one, once")) we don't make this stuff up, folks. it's right there in front of you. schechter was a ‘new immigrant’? and here we thought he was born in the bronx, nyc. (”Add the new immigrants (of which I was one, once”)) we don’t make this stuff up, folks. it’s right there in front of you.

]]> by: Danny http://www.newsdissector.com/blog/2008/04/27/why-doesnt-mickey-mouse-wear-an-american-flag-pin/#comment-31170 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:27:02 +0000 http://www.newsdissector.com/blog/2008/04/27/why-doesnt-mickey-mouse-wear-an-american-flag-pin/#comment-31170 I, too, bemoan the dumbing down of America, BY DESIGN. Dummies don't vote, or, if they do, don't vote intelligently. Add the new immigrants (of which I was one, once) who may be easy prey to vote a "certain way", and you've got a skewed citizen vote. ABC is rightly getting its comeuppance, and I hope it's the beginning of the end for this kind of election coverage. It's heartening to me that many people were offended by the ABC pretense of an election debate. I, too, bemoan the dumbing down of America, BY DESIGN. Dummies don’t vote, or, if they do, don’t vote intelligently. Add the new immigrants (of which I was one, once) who may be easy prey to vote a “certain way”, and you’ve got a skewed citizen vote.

ABC is rightly getting its comeuppance, and I hope it’s the beginning of the end for this kind of election coverage. It’s heartening to me that many people were offended by the ABC pretense of an election debate.

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