OT: SpongeBob's audience goes Kerry
will
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=181911
Kids Pick Kerry to Be the Next President
Kids Choose Kerry to Be the Next President; Poll Has Correctly
Predicted Outcome in 4 Elections
NEW YORK Oct. 20, 2004 — Kid power! Democrat John Kerry is the winner,
and the rest of the country should pay attention because the vote on
Nickelodeon's Web site has correctly chosen the president of the
United States in the past four elections.
Nearly 400,000 children and teens voted, and the results were released
Wednesday. Kerry received 57 percent of the vote; President Bush got
43 percent.
Nickelodeon has been airing information on the Nov. 2 election, plus
sponsoring debates where kids could put forth their views on the
environment, the war in Iraq and terrorism. Some animated shows on the
cable channel also have been focusing on the election.
Linda Ellerbee, who writes and hosts "Nick News," says their voting
usually reflects their parents' views but not all the time.
"Every so often you get a kid that says, `My parents are voting for X,
but I'm voting for Y,'" she said. "It's amazing, the point when kids
start forming their own ideas about issues."
Ellerbee said Nickelodeon has been traveling the country teaching
about the election and the importance of being socially informed.
Seven-year-old Anthony Viggiano of Baldwin, N.Y., won a contest for
the best song lyrics about freedom of speech and performed it with
rocker John Mellencamp.
"If we can get kids interested earlier in voting, when they can
legally vote, they will," she said. "They will run for office, they
will be the candidates (that) people want to vote for."
Ellerbee, who will announce the results on "U-PICK Live" Wednesday
night, said many children wonder why they can't vote in the real
election.
"Kids aren't dumb, they're just younger and shorter," she said. "In
fact, last election, a boy came up to me and said, `We picked George
Bush to win, and he didn't really win. Al Gore won the popular vote,
so we were kinda wrong.' Quite an observation."
Sucka
>"Every so often you get a kid that says, `My parents are voting for X,
>but I'm voting for Y,'" she said. "It's amazing, the point when kids
>start forming their own ideas about issues."
Amazing? It's sickening.
Children who watch Nickelodeon, like mine, should not be trusted to give their
stance on "issues," because every SINGLE THING they see on TV about those
issues is intended to mislead them. And I even count my children although they
are far smarter than all of you and likely more knowledgeable than most of you
as well.
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>"If we can get kids interested earlier in voting, when they can
>legally vote, they will," she said. "They will run for office, they
>will be the candidates (that) people want to vote for."
Yes, assuming that they are from very wealthy families and go to Yale.
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>"Kids aren't dumb, they're just younger and shorter," she said.
Kids do NOT understand a critical piece of information that they would need in
order to critically analyze what they're being told - that adults LIE TO THEM
all the time, that adults are greedy and selfish and they break EVERY SINGLE
RULE that they tell children they are supposed to adhere to.
It literally stuns children to understand that what they are told by people on
TV could be an outright LIE.
>`We picked George
>Bush to win, and he didn't really win. Al Gore won the popular vote,
>so we were kinda wrong.' Quite an observation."
Quite an observation made by someone with a poor understanding of Federalism
and how this nation is constructed.
Trav
will
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>Kids do NOT understand a critical piece of information that they would need in
>order to critically analyze what they're being told - that adults LIE TO THEM
>all the time, that adults are greedy and selfish and they break EVERY SINGLE
>RULE that they tell children they are supposed to adhere to.
Trav still has issues from childhood.