"If we amplify everything we hear nothing."
"The press can hold its magnifying up to our problems bringing them into focus, illuminating issues heretofore unseen or they can use that magnifying glass to light ants on fire and then perhaps host a week of shows on the sudden, unexpected dangerous flaming ant epidemic."
"We hear every damn day about how fragile our country is -- on the brink of catastrophe -- torn by polarizing hate and how it's a shame that we can't work together to get things done, but the truth is we do. We work together to get things done every damn day!"
Jon Stewart's closing speech at the Rally To Restore Sanity helped me pinpoint what has been bothering me about the whole discussion centering around Education Nation's programming and the release of Waiting for 'Superman', and what also worries me about the recent lopsided election results.
The rhetoric and finger-pointing ignores the many of us in the middle, who as Jon Stewart points
