David Kronke was appointed Mayor of Television after a bloodless coup in 2000. Since then, he has improved infrastructure, championed greater educational opportunities and fought for reforms that have utterly erased corruption and incompetence from the television industry. Since Mr. Kronke has ascended to power, Television is a far better place. After this, the next debate'll be rock-paper-scissors
So you thought the CNN/YouTube debate was surreal: Now, MySpace and MTV will “host a series of discussions between U.S. presidential candidates and Internet viewers.”
It’ll take place on several college campuses, stream live on both sites and feature 11 candidates from Hilary Clinton to Rudy Giuliani. Audience members can ask questions directly, while online participants can Email, IM or text-message questions, promising all manner of amusing technological glitches.
"Neither of us wanted to see yet another event with a dozen candidates giving consultant-crafted answers," MySpaceTV general manager Jeff Berman told Reuters, adding that the result will be "unfiltered direct conversations." Yeah, will good luck with that. Have they ever seen these candidates? They have a perpetual teleprompter running in their brains; you couldn’t produce a spontaneous moment if you popped a balloon behind their heads.
Of course, the candidates’ stiff efforts to appear “cool” for the “kids,” who are after all “America’s future,” will be outdone only by the myopic craziness promised by the questions:
“What’s your favorite band?” “Don’t you think it’s unfair to have to take finals?” “My regular dealer got busted – do you know somewhere to get some X?” “SUP??!!?1!! KTNXBAI!!11!!”
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Testing!
Posted by: Suzy Q | August 24, 2007 4:49 PM