Excuuuuuuuse, me?! The *media* is to "blame" because I was

[Cerridwen]

too fucking self involved to pull my head out of my ass and investigate the candidates on their records?!

Nice - blame someone else because you were too busy/self-involved/apathetic/lazy/ignorant/(and my all-time favorite) "apolitical", to bother to check someone's credentials and voting record and it's all the media's fault?!

You were free to form your own opinions and ideas based on your own research of the issues but you were too busy/self-involved/apathetic/lazy/ignorant/"apolitical" to do so and it's the media's fault?

Perhaps, were you less inclined to suck up information which is packaged and "imaged" to you, the consumer, you wouldn't have had the problem with Gore's "earth tones" and "stick"-like "qualities". Perhaps you would have taken the time to investigate - for your own edification exactly what the candidates stood for.

Perhaps, were you to get beyond the "image is everything" bullshit previously and currently being "catipulted" into our "pop culture" you might have figured out a way to look beyond the superficial and into the, oh, I dunno, ISSUES and voting records of the candidates involved?!

Hey, what do I know? Kucinich is "unelectable" because he doesn't fit the "mold" and "Billary" has too much baggage and Obama doesn't have enough "experience" and Edwards pays too much for a haircut and gee, what else does the media and the Party Leadership from both parties tell me? Oh, yeah, who it is that is "electable" and who isn't. And they're DOING it AGAIN

And it's the "media's" fault?!!!