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Rex

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4. Because they are the lowest form of infotainment a person can find on 500 channels.

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Tue Oct 13, 2015, 07:39 PM

Oct 2015

Remember the 3:00am infomercials in the 1990s? YEP, CNN/Foxnews in 2015.

I'm sure there are bigger wastes of time than watching infotainment/tabloid punditry, but I would be hard pressed to think of what they are.

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Why are CNN and GEM$NBComcast injecting Trump into the Democratic Party [View all] malaise Oct 2015 OP

For the same reason people in infomercials are always dropping things. rug Oct 2015 #1

Who knows? femmocrat Oct 2015 #2

The sell drama not information underpants Oct 2015 #3

Because they are the lowest form of infotainment a person can find on 500 channels. Rex Oct 2015 #4

Thomas Roberts was gushing about Trump going on redstateblues Oct 2015 #5

Because it's CrapNotNews. Dont call me Shirley Oct 2015 #6

To mess with voters' minds. Octafish Oct 2015 #7

well Robbins Oct 2015 #9

The question is, why do people watch this bullshit? Seriously. Stop Guy Whitey Corngood Oct 2015 #8