Up Close and Way Too Personal

Today's politicians have to be a little careful, and it's all because of a bunch of nerds.  Those nerds are the ones that started up sites like YouTube, Blip.tv, and a host of others that now boast videos posted within minutes of any presidential candidate sneezing in public.  Not only do we get to see the candidates themselves, but we are treated to photos and home movies of their spouses, kids, friends, and pastors.  And then, just when you start to get bored, we are then treated to what mainstream media does best - obsessing.

Incidentally, I recently ran into a friend of mine, who said that if mainstream media were a person, and that person walked into any shrink's office in the country, they'd be diagnosed as obsessive / compulsive and be put on antidepressants in a heartbeat.

But, as part of the new media 'movement', I'm hoping that some enterprising web 2.0 type will take this a bit further and put together a site that details every minute of every day of every candidate. And not just the candidate, but videos of every person they come in contact with.

The point is so that we can delve into the lives of every taxi cab driver, hotel clerk, and restaurant server that comes within 6 feet of the candidates.  And the whole point of this, is, so that we can get something pithy out of one of them, like "Of course, I believe in Satan, he is like the coolest underdog there is ".  We can then write about the candidates support of Satanism, and follow that up with four Satan 'experts' explaining what this all means to The American Way. You gotta love it.

Anyway, just to show some of the tidbits that get posted on any one day, on the old WWW, I give you the following videos.  I really think there's a reality show in here somewhere....