Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Yahoo! Headline Madness: More Election Silliness

As someone who regularly "surfs" the "web" for extended periods of time only to run out of interesting websites to go to and end up back at Yahoo!, it is becoming more and more apparent that Yahoo! is the nadir for online headline writing. Relatively speaking - I'm sure there's some website with "OMG OBAMA IZ TERRORIZT" featured prominently, but Yahoo is one of the big boys, and they should know better. Some pained sticking up for McCain after the jump.



From today:



Now, sadly, unlike our in-house madame, I lack the technical capabilities to outline things with my mousepad thing. But take a look at the McCain headline. Looks pretty damning, right? Seems dangerous that a president would want that plan.

News flash, fuckos: that's Congress' plan as well. In last week's absolutely essential episode of This American Life, we learn that that bailout plans' main function is to completely based around buying all of these terrible mortgages. Everyone is using this plan. It's stupid and ridiculous, but it's stupid and ridiculous for everyone. There, I defended John McCain. I'm gonna throw up for about three days.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

It's not so much defending John McCain as explaining the in accuracies of the media's portrayal of the candidate and the plan which will effect people's opinion of the bail out rightly or wrongly. Thanks for the heads up about This American Life by the way, haven't been keeping up with it and I really like the show. Ira Glass is awesome and the stories are great contextually as well as giving good insight into a lot of things. Aside from that about things to surf, these aren't news sites but they often have some pretty interesting links, fazed.net and darkroastedblend.com.