Sunday Night Video – Melissa Harris-Perry Plays “Spock or Mitt Romney?”

Last week, The Melissa Harris-Perry Show played a game: who said it, Mitt Romney or Mr. Spock? While I think the show is correct that both Spock and Mittens are uneasy when it comes to emotions, I think the game was actually pretty easy, as Spock’s speech is more highly logical. As mine is not, considering that I just wrote “more highly logical.”

1. Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them.

2. I’m a normal person. I have emotions.

3. What does it mean, “exact change”?

4. I tasted a beer and tried a cigarette once, as a wayward teenager, and never did it again.

Answers after the jump

Quote of the Day – Gil Fronsdal on Desire

Desire is not the problem. The problem is when we’re trapped by the desire.

- Gil Fronsdal, “Letting Go: Clinging and Peace”

The Daily Show on Fox’s Love of War

Part of the way that Fox fulfills its function as the main media division of the Republican Party is the way in which it works to shape how news is framed. A prime example is their recent outrage that the Democrats would use the term “War on Women” to describe the anti-women policies of the Republican Party. Rather than argue about the merits of the policies, Fox and the Republicans have turned their focus to the Democrats’ rhetoric, which is a significant hint that the Democrats should keep using that language. It’s working and it’s accurate.

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