I'm sick of celebrities influencing mainstream politics

Sure, they have their First Amendment rights and I would never forcibly curtail those. But I'm so very tired of worshipful mainstream media attempts, which apparently are quite successful, to attract regular folks to politics by dressing the issues with vapid, fawning celebrity coverage. I saw this image recently on Yahoo!...

It's just sad. Why on earth should we care if OMG movie stars and reality TV "ppl" support any particular candidate for President? They are nothing like me or any of us, yet here they are being trotted out as if we should 1) emulate them and 2) give two shits about what they think about life in the real world. I don't include Schwarzenegger because he has distinguished himself as a serious executive.

General Colin Powell's endorsement of Barack Obama was dramatic and historic. Couldn't Yahoo, which once prided itself on human editorial to distinguish from dumb lists of stuff on the Internet, do a better job? Or is this what society really wants? If the latter than it must have been a self-fulfilling prophecy. Dumb the people down, then give them what we would have them want.

Anyway, with all these high profile Republican endorsements coming out, the race looks pretty much over. But wait, who cares about that? Opie and the Fonz are for OBAMA!!!1!11!!Eleven!!

Unless a Bin Laden video is about to be revealed, I guess it's high time for McCain surrogates or sympathizers to put out a scathing review of Michelle Obama's thesis back at Princeton (full thesis available here, and some blogger analyses here)...