Which is worse — television commercials or political campaigns?
I have to confess that television commercials and political campaigns are combining to really wear me down. I totally understand people who shut off their TVs and abandon them forever.
I was watching (ha, not ME though?) one of the late-night network talk shows last night and saw part of an interview with the actress Helen Hunt. The part I saw was her explaining that her daughter (four or five years old, I don't recall) is not allowed to watch television. Never. As a result, the girl is very much out of touch with kids' entertainment. Ms. Hunt mentioned, for example, that she and her daughter were doing something and saw a guy in an "Elmo" costume doing something with kids. The daughter was dumbfounded at the character, had no idea whatsoever who or what an "Elmo" was.
Okay, I think that's probably a little extreme. But after I've seen the 3 millionth political commercial and/or sound bite, and after I've futilely hit the mute button and switched channels with the remote 3 million times in a row to avoid the absolutely repulsive, disgusting commercials put out by Hardees -- my all-time personal prize winner as the company with the most disgusting commercials and where I'll NEVER eat -- I grow weary.
Am I the only one who can't figure out why fast-food commercials must be either, 1) completely dumb ignorant, 2) laced with sex, 3) show closeup shots of food slopping down onto a counter or drooling down a smack, smack, smack, grease smeared chine, or, 4) all of the above??
Ah, thanks for the chance to rant and vent. I feel a little better now.
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