Silhouette
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I don't watch MSNBC (I used to) and I don't watch Fox (I used to). Is Maddow now in the same league as Hannity?
Anyone?
She was actually compared by the Rolling Stone Magazine to Glenn Beck.
And she is laboring on the fringe of that comparison IMHO. Yes, Fox News gets me to instantly switch channels at the mere hint, the mere mention of "Benghazi". It's their version of a cooked up witch hunt. Even the dullest of minds can tell when something trivial is being fanned up to influence them.
Both networks make the mistake of underestimating the intelligence of their viewers. The internet is to thank. Used to be in the old days if you missed an education, you missed the boat. Your fate was set for life. But nowadays the internet is keeping people's brains open, flexible, growing so that the blood flow to those learning centers still keeps going. As a result people become more savvy, less susceptible to influences. And perhaps more jaded to being corralled since there is so much freedom of thought out there.
When the manufactured hysteria hits, the jaded eyes come out and then switch off the channel. Best to stick to things that matter, methinks..