Exactly what I hate about MTV
...besides the fact that they don't show videos. During election season, MTV becomes even more excruciatingly annoying than normal, as they try to get a nation of horny slacker tweens to stop huffing solvents long enough to shuffle out and vote, after four years of giving them absolutely zero encouragement to inform themselves on the issues.
The Decadent West gives the best interpretation of the whole sorry spectacle I've ever seen:
Gideon Yago: Hey guys. Gideon Yago here, with another MTV Choose Or Lose update. You guys TOTALLY have to vote this year! It's TOTALLY the most important election of your lifetime! You TOTALLY have to make a difference in this year's election. Why? Because we TOTALLY have to vote out George W. Bush this year, even though we're TOTALLY pretending to be an impartial advocate of voter's registration. You see, when we say you have to make a difference in this year's election, it's TOTALLY implied that the difference is to vote out the incumbent. And whether that's TOTALLY right, or TOTALLY wrong, it's TOTALLY fucking biased! But who cares, right? Here's Britney Spears fucking Bobby Brown with a coke injected gerbil shoved up his ass. DECK!
Click on the link and read the whole thing, if you're not easily offended.
Comments
I seem to remember that MTV always has that rock to vote during presidential election years, but I couldn't say whether or not they're more...strident during Republican presidencies...
For music videos there's always Fuse and VH-1 Classic (I think that's what it's called). Oh and MTV2 also actually plays some videos. It's really kind of refreshing to turn to a music video channel and see, well, videos.
Posted by: Katherine | September 14, 2004 08:50 PM