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Lottie M. Anderson

Election Coverage '08

You can almost hear the heartening chimes of a game show as a winner is theatrically announced; the cheers from the crowd, the smiling faces and anti climactic thrill of an already known outcome.

Commercial break! Flashing consumerism to the presumed viewers of the mid-day game show. Greasy burgers, pain killers, HD on DEMAND!, need a new cell phone? The sophisticated hosts bring you back to a place where you feel like you’re in command; again the viewer of a suspenseful show you can already feel the outcome to. But they keep you asking yourself, who will win? Counting down the closing polls, 5…4…3…2…1.

It would seem a few gun shots, a car chase, would be appropriate; the suspense is meant to kill. (It was pretty suspenseful, thought not so close of a race that the suspense could've killed me.  NB) Flashing here, new projections just in, sweating pits, the game show screen holds all attention. Don’t you dare avert your eyes.

And the game was over before I had even begun. It’s like watching an attractive pit bull mutilate an ancient, flea ridden, retarded rat terrier. What else can be said? It was bound to happen. And thank whatever god you pray to in the late hours of the night when you’re drunk and needing some reassurance that the next day you can wake up alive and go to work, that the fucking pit bull, with the cute little face, won,(Are you talking about Obama? I dont get it WW) and will make the world a better place for pathetic financially stressed

Shih Tzus (my mother, the ex-vet-tech would be severely disappointed. thank you.) (My mom has a Shih Tzu.  Greatest dog ever. NB)

everywhere.

It’s a dog eat dog world, and this time a dog with a new face has come in to offer up new words and new objectives to help and encourage the world of game shows and false reality TV that we dare to call the real world today. It’s time for change, and today the change has come. Ding, ding, ding. We have a winner. (I like this last paragraph, and your usage dogs throughout. NB)