Is that because, particularly, cable television doesn’t have any kind of editorial filter?
It has no editorial filter. I mean, they all pray for Anna Nicole Smith to die. It keeps them going for five days. And they say anything they want to, and they cover the tawdriest [stories] and exploit all of the worst. And you get a steady diet. Look at Maury Povich, Jerry Springer, and all of that stuff. Have you ever watched daytime television for a week? No, I can’t say that [I have]. Well, try it. This is what the American culture is. So, then you bring politics into this every four years. It’s the same people who are sitting there watching this stuff. And that was not true when Reagan ran. We didn’t have cable television, for God’s sake. We only had three networks. Are you saying that this development has dumbed-down the people who pay attention to politics? Absolutely. It’s dumbed them down. It’s also made them much more cynical about humanity and people. And unless you get an extraordinary person who rises above that in people’s eyes — I happen to be prejudiced in thinking that
