You have tuned off the tube, canceled subscriptions, written emails to sponsors, practiced voodoo with Stephanopoulos bobble-heads, yelled at Pat Buchanan...
Yes, TV is horrible. But one expects it to be horrible. The biggest loser of this election cycle, for me, is the paper of record, the New York Times. Of course, it's been hard years for the Times. The biggest foreign policy fiasco of our generation, the invasion of Iraq, was shamelessly encouraged from its pages. In only a few months, they hired possibly the worst conservative possible for their op-ed page, Bill Kristol. They endorsed Clinton, which I guess it's ok because she made the same mistake they made. They united conservatives behind McCain by running a lame-ass story with little evidence too late to hurt him in the primary and too early to hurt him in the general. They wrote that disgraceful and unnecessary non-story on Obama's drug use. If Brooks and Kristol weren't torture enough, they hit us with Maureen Dowd, whose favorite past-time is to nitpick on mindless anecdotes in order to paint sweeping personality traits and mock the Democratic candidates. And finally, Paul Krugman, whose last column is a nauseating example of consumption of alternative reality. Krugman, who said several times that the Democrats should go with the anti-war candidate, turned on Obama because he did not like 100 percent of his universal health care plan. Now he says that Democratic voters' confusion will eventually lead into snatching defeat from the jaws of victory... because they don't pick his favorite candidate, Clinton! Oh, and also that Obama's campaign has been dirtier than Clinton's. I'm not making this up.
If you want to share your opinion with Mr Krugman, you can reach him at krugman@nytimes.com.