Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Bad polling news for Romney

"65 percent of Americans say Obama better suited to handle alien invasion than Romney".

Update: Frankly, I think Obama's response to an alien invasion would probably go something like this:

10 comments:

SwampWoman said...

Oh, yeah, THAT was a scientific survey that has actual validity.

Just kidding.

JeffS said...

Heh. One downside (of many) from the expansion of cable TV channels is sub-quality shows. That's why we see a lot of reality shows.

But one genre in particular has really gone downhill: documentaries. Some of those really suck, both in quality AND in execution. And they run as series, so you can watch the same crap quality week in, week out.

NGC produces a lot of these, as does THC. One of these was about an alien invasion (this one, I think).

I bring this up because I actually watched part of it -- on a road trip, late at night, and very bored.

Not so bored that I watched ALL of it, of course. But enough that I saw one segment where a ragtag band of guerrillas were huddled in the wilderness, listening to a radio broadcast from......Barack Obama. It was probably an actor, but a good enough job that I did whenever I hear his voice on TV: I changed channels.

Might explain the polling news. And where the average American voter gets their information: from crappy documentaries.

Paco said...

Jeff: Sounds awful. And you're certainly right about all these "crockumentaries".

RebeccaH said...

Formerly respectable TV channels (like History and Science and Discovery) are trending more and more to things like celebrity ghost stories and Bigfoot quests and prehistoric alien visits (where we obviously got all our technological advances). It's a sorry concession to the lowest common denominator in the quest for ratings. Should we blame TV or should we blame the public, or should we blame an educational system that hasn't got the stones to definitively debunk all that crap?

JeffS said...

Paco: I like "crockumentaries"! Consider it stolen.

Rebecca: Blame all three. It's really sad.

SwampWoman said...

RebeccaH, we've been terribly disappointed in the evolution of History and Science and Discovery. They were the reason we had those channels and for it to be all bullshit all the time was just too much. Even the DIY channels had turned from good stuff to crap.

We cancelled.

rinardman said...

I sometimes wonder if Obeyme is an alien, himself. That may be why people think he could handle the aliens.

BTW, in the WotW clip, did you notice the Mexican?

A case of illegal alien meets illegal alien?

mojo said...

Gee, who'd handle a cometary impact better?

Amongst other moronic questions...

Paco said...

R-man: Had the same thought about the Mexican (as you say, "great minds, etc.")

richard mcenroe said...

That NG documentary was actually kind of fum. Featured SF writer John Ringo and Redneck Rocket Scientist Travis Taylor.