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Friday, January 25, 2008

More Phony Outrage

By Tangotiger, 11:00 AM

Are you going to bark all day, little doggie, or are you going to bite?

—Mr. Blond to Mr. White

There’s an issue, you are mildly perturbed—a feeling that will soon pass like indigestion—yet our new information world in the meantime transforms this issue into an explosion before the feeling will go away.  Phony Outrage.  Repeat something loud enough and it’s the truth.  Some people have built their lives around this: Lou Dobbs, Bill O’Reilly, and Plankton.  No less an expert than Stephen Colbert said so to Papa Bear himself.

Today, it’s advertisements on baseball uniforms, as they play in Japan.

Here’s my summary opinion:

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