Are you a mouth-breather? Are you idiocratic? Do you believe in democracy in its truest sense? Think Gutenberg did a good thing bringing books to the people?
Well, the National Editor of the Ottawa Citizen hates you.
The Players: AP – Andrew Potter, National Editor; KO’M – Kady O’Malley; SR – Scott Reid (beer & popcorn guy)
AP: What worries me, though, is that we’re seeing the “democratization” of politics, in the most literal sense of the word: The people — the great idiocratic mass of mouth-breathers out there frantically swiping the drool off their keyboards as they Google around for “dirt” — are running the campaigns now. There aren’t war rooms anymore, directed by parties with smart, educated, responsible adults in charge — it’s Hobbes’ state of nature as imagined by Mike Judge.
And Scott Reid thinks all bloggers are hard-up virgins. I think we’d be kinda hard pressed to convince anyone of my virginity, after selling tail in my 20′s. Can I be a born again?
They seem bitter…
[...] THE EDITOR of Ottawa Citizen Hates His Readers …. [...]
Perhaps Mr. Reid’s legs were crossed and his (always) soft bitz were being inadvertently crushed. Or maybe some conservative person had secretly placed a large cucumber upright on the chair that Mr. Reid had been invited to sit in.
There are any number of reasonable explanations for Mr. Reid’s overarching sense of superiority/disdain.
Political war rooms are all about information control and media manipulation. They create insiders and outsiders. Mr. Reid used to be an insider who helped control the flow.
Any dispersal of the control disperses the associated power. Last I checked democracy comes from the Greek roots demos and cratos which mean people and power/authority respectively. If we live in a democracy, how does allowing people to have power hurt the democratic process?
Wow. Scott Reid is a condescending chump. Could he be more pathetically wrong?
Crikey…I bet I get more action before I get out of bed in the morning, than he gets in a month.
Still not sure why that’s relevant to the topic at hand, though…