I’ve been working on all sorts of things while I had MSNBC live-streaming
in the background. MSNBC’s news coverage
is certainly repetitive – but I have more issues with their advertisers and
advertising sales department – and some of their so-called on-air “experts” –
than their content, at the moment.
Just out of curiosity, I recorded the number of commercials I had to sit
through during a 90 minute period. The
program was Headlines at the Half,
with anchor Alex Witt. The program ran
from 8:30-10:00 am on Saturday morning, 19 August 2017. I recorded 27 minutes of commercials during a
90 minute program. Almost one-third of the program was
spent bombarding viewers with repetitive and annoying commercials.
I sat through more medical issues than I ever thought possible. Sleep apnea – OTC pain meds – Alzheimer’s –
women’s hair loss – colon cancer – plaque psoriasis – rheumatoid arthritis – asthma
- metastatic breast cancer – chemotherapy medication – anti-smoking – ulcerative
colitis – diabetes – irritable bowel syndrome – shingles vaccine – catheters - therapist-texting
app – opioid-induced constipation – Crohn’s Disease - insulin alternatives –
Medicare Supplement plans – Osteo Bi-Flex – low-dose aspirin regiment – brain
health OTC meds – bleeding gums – gum disease – and that was just in a couple
of hours.
Either we are the sickest country on the planet, or MSNBC viewers have
singlehandedly uncovered the reason that drug prices are so high: they batter you relentlessly with depressing
and expensive medical TV advertisements.
Worse: all of the medications
sounded like they had worse side effects than anything they were being used for
... “Use our product for excessive nose hair!
Oh yeah, call your doctor if your nose falls off your face into your
soup ... it may cause suicidal thoughts, flatulence, weird rashes on your genitals
and boils.”
Last bottom line: I defy anyone out
there to insist that the one thing they want to hear about in the middle of the
morning news is: men discussing
catheters! I was so grossed out I had to
turn the sound off. I’m sure men feel
the same way about women’s personal hygiene products.
Note to the DNC: neeed a great
fundraising idea? Start a new cable
company: HHP – “Hypochondriac’s Happy Place”. Change the laws so that all pharmaceutical
and drug companies have only one place – the HHP of course - they can air their
commercials. Air non-stop disgusting
commercials, aimed just at sick people, or people who think they are. We have so many hypochondriacs you’ll make an
instant fortune – trust me – and you’ll leave the RNC in the dust. And for the act of sparing the rest of us
from needing to watch hours of really disgusting commercials? The entire country will love you. Think about it.
Whiplash Comment: did it strike
anyone else that the fake married couple hawking Sunsetter Retractable Awning is,
like, WAY too excited about awning? I
mean, to the point of emotional dysfunction, and to the point where you want to
slap both of them back to common sense?
Lastly, advertisers have definitely been obsessed lately
with hiring women to simper in whispery little voices that they must fantasize that
Lolita used: Leesa Mattress, G.E.’s
“Millie Dresselhaus” ad; Birch Box, Talk Space (where the spokesgirl for
texting your therapist sounded like she had been recently lobotomized), Alzheimer’s
fund raisers (who may be the same “little girl” who hawks Panera salads), Olivia
Nuzzi of New York Magazine who dresses like a submissive and obedient sex slave
and murmurs through pursed lips. Has
anyone in the law enforcement vice squad thought of looking into advertising
and media industry execs as the most likely to be involved in illegal sexual
deviance?
More Hypocrisy: Had to block another
liberal thread on Facebook before I lost my marbles: a bunch of them were squealing with girlish
delight (and that included a bunch of guys, too, don’t ask me why) at a photo
of Martha Stewart giving trump her middle finger. Ooooh!
Ahhhh! Now, personally, I have no
issues with anyone flipping trump the bird, but by the time they were
enthusing, “Martha for pres!”, I completely lost my temper at them.
Imagine, if you will, that in 2020, Republicans announced they were backing
a convicted felon, four-counts worth!, for president. These same lunatic liberals would have gone
freaking insane. And yet, these were
liberals, enthusiastically doing that.
Suddenly convicted felons were the GOOD guys? You wanted to slap every single one of them,
too, upside their idiotic heads. And
that’s a perfect example of what I meant by hypocrisy. The left will never get anywhere if this
level of stupidity represents their base.
Overwhelmed with the aftermath of the violence in Charlottesville,
including the speech in the trump tower lobby, Bannon’s departure, the issue of
confederate statues, Barcelona, neo-Nazi’s, the KKK, the works. Overshadowed with MSNBC’s insistence that we
send billions of dollars to their greedy advertisers, while pretending none of
this ever happened. Welcome to the USA,
where I seem to spend a lot of time wanting to slap people.
Although I did love watching the reactions to the Great American Eclipse,
as it traveled across the country. How wonderfully
strange: the moon completely covering
the sun finally united the entire country!
The moon should do that more often.
