"Donald Trump gets awesome ratings for the same reason Fear Factor made money feeding people rat-hair tortilla chips: nothing sells like a freak show."
"...the fact that we have been systematically making the entire country more stupid for decades."
"What's left of Trump's mind is like a parody of the average American media consumer: credulous, self-centered, manic, sex-obsessed, unfocused, and glued to stories that appeal to his sense of outrage and victim-hood."
"We've created a generation of people like this: anger addicts who can't read past the first page of a book."
(Hell they won't even pick a book up, let alone read the first page.
Meme vs. white paper policy positions anybody?)
"What the hell did we expect would happen? Who did we think would rise to prominence in our rage-filled, hyper-stimulated media environment? Sensitive geniuses?"
Always liked Matt Taibbi's writing.
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