Well. The US goes to the polls tomorrow to elect the man who will become (for all intents) the leader of the free world.

No pressure, there, guys...

I have watched this election in utter fascination, particularly the language of the spin doctors. My favourite network, the... ahem... news channel, Fox, is so adept at this that once I have my Masters, I'm tempted to go ahead and do my PhD on the Language of Spin.

The spin doctors are quite something to behold, but Fox takes it to a whole new level. Under the banner of "fair and balanced" they have headlines like:

"Does an old friend from Obama's scout troop when he was 10 have proof that he may be a communist!"

"Is Sarah Palin really being put forward to the Pope as a possible saint?"

"Is is true that Joe Biden was found drunk in a strip club at Halloween dressed as a transvestite?"

"Was Joe the Plumber kidnapped by aliens?"

You see, that's the brilliance of their rhetoric. They suggest the most outrageous things in the form of questions (over which they cannot be sued), and even if the answer is "of course not, don't be ridiculous!" it doesn't matter, because they repeat the headline a score of times in the hour, before getting to the 30 second sound bite where they announce, "well, actually, no, but an anonymous blogger suggested it on Twitter so we thought we'd run with it for a while."

By then, of course, through the power of repitition (remember how you learned your multiplication tables) you're quite convinced Joe Biden is a transvestite, or poor Joe the Plumber is being anally probed (which might account for a few things..hehehe) because you never get to hear the clarification.

It is utterly masterful and I can tell you now, if I ever decide to take over the world, I'm gonna make sure Fox is on my side, first.

After that, mere world domination ought to be easy....

Muwahahahaha...

PS: To my US readers... get out there and vote, dudes! You can't righteously bitch about the Government later on unless you had a hand in putting them there... or tried to stop them. :)

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hehehehe, yeah Fox is prity bad over here but it's great fun to watch. All I know for sure is that after 5 pm I'am going to be glued to my TV set tomorrow waiting for the results.

I always vote, although, like previous years, it doesn't matter. CNN announced Obama as the winner last week, based off their polls. According to them, it's not the actual votes that decide things, but what their polls tell us.

I'm looking forward to the craziness of election season to be over.

Already voted absentee (because I'm at college)!

I'll be following the results closely tomorrow night. This is better than the Super Bowl for me.

I'll be voting for the first time. When I turned 18, there was no major elections going on. I have pretty good idea who I am voting for presidential candidate. I'm glad, because I hate being indecisive.

Fox is fun isn't it? Of course, to watch real news you have to tune in to CNN. I always vote. Since we have more than just the one thing to vote for, I have my cheat sheet all ready. My mind has been made up and it's all written down, cause I'm 51 and I'd never remember it all. We are expecting record breaking voting this year. The really cool thing is, my state of Indiana is suppose to be some kind of crystal ball on how the whole election is going to go. We've been hardline Republican since 1964. We shall see. Personally, I wish we HAD to vote here the way you do in Australia. Way too many people just don't care. It's sad.

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