Fred Is Red

      I have spent weeks touting Fred Thompson on this world wide web, and I have read aplenty as well, but it seems that Fred has been the victim of both a general malaise from the American electorate and a lack of fire from his own campaign. For all we hear of his strong conservative roots, his candidacy has not taken root. Yet, Ron Paul supporters zealously keep their genuine lunatic afloat. How does this happen?

       For any devoted denizen of the internet, the answer should be clear; it’s all about control. And Google, which has become the automatic catch-phrase for any form of search (much the same as “Xerox” did for copying, transforming that name brand into a verb), determines for you that which you will find. There is deliberate filtering of search results and the practice could accurately be termed “steering”.
      
       We keep hearing the mantra from our preferred sources that which we so desperately wish to hear; that Fred is our guy, that Fred is Red, but the message seems lost on those who are not so nearly engaged as we. Sure, those like us who are truly engaged can find the information we seek, but what of the young, new voters? Those who only rely on easily readable headlines; the headlines that Yahoo! and Google offer on the homepage? Do most people actually spend the time to really dig for information?
       
       I have said that the vast majority of people in America derive their “news” from Oprah-style talk shows and demagoguing weekly series, and the recent polls seem to bear my assessment out.  The danger in this is two-fold:
  1. People who rely on this type of media for their positional stands genuinely scare the pants off of me and…
  2. The very same people who should never vote become energized, based on lies that energize them to get out and vote.

       But what happens to candidates like Fred? The practice of dummy saturation results in the theft of truly capable people like Thompson as options for the general electorate, and it becomes an exercise in futility for those of us who see him as incredibly viable.

       The only hope we have is that they actually read small time blogs and somewhat more visible message boards. If so, I would implore Fred to stay red, to keep going, and the pundits be damned. There is a definite agenda, afterall. Some are just more honest about that agenda than others…

-Woody

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