Anyone up for an obtuse conservative theory regarding the State of the Union?

[Enrique]

It's from Dennis Prager of course...

http://townhall.com/columnists/DennisPrager/2011/01/25/the_one_thing_you_wont_see_on_tv_at_the_state_of_the_union/page/1

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Think about it for a moment. Why do television cameras never pull back and give a wide-angle view of the president delivering his speech? That is certainly routine for TV: It is considered uninteresting to TV viewers to have a fixed view of a subject.

Why, then, have almost no Americans ever seen what is located above the president, the vice president and the speaker of the House?

I discovered the answer when I attended President Obama's speech on health care to a joint session of Congress.
I saw chiseled in the marble wall behind the speaker and vice president, in giant letters, the words "In God We Trust."

My immediate reaction was to wonder: Why had I never seen that before? I have, after all, been watching presidential State of the Union addresses for about 40 years.

Here is my theory -- and I say "theory" because I cannot prove it.

A generation of Americans has been raised to regard any mention of God outside the home or church as a violation of the deepest principles of our country. To the men and women of the left-leaning news media, in particular, "In God We Trust" is an anachronism at best, an impediment to moral progress at worst. The existence of those giant chiseled words so disturbs the media that, consciously or not, they do not want Americans to see them.

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[louis-t]

1. It is a sickness, being a republican.

Forgot the comma.

[benddem]

2. He must not have watched

the same SOTU I did. The man is nuts.

[SpiralHawk]

9. Absolutely, this is more made-up Republicon BS - just another lie

lying is obviously a core republicon family 'value'.

[justiceischeap]

3. Or maybe, if his "theory" is any near close to the truth

It's because the majority of AMERICANS don't want to see those giant chiseled words during a political speech. The SOTU address is not a religious event.

[old mark]

4. Yeah, them commie liberals in the media...these RWers are just delusional...nt

[blogslut]

5. ...

Dennis Prager is an idiot.

[Electric Monk]

6. +1 You win this thread

[blogslut]

11. Oh Dennisssss!

[Crankie Avalon]

7. Season's Greetings, Mr. Prager. n/t

[gratuitous]

8. Is there any straw at which they will not grasp?

Oh well, it's Town Hall after all; as it's known among actual English speakers, "Darwin's Waiting Room."

[Liberal In Texas]

10. Prager obviously knows nothing about how TV is done.

TV professionals would not have the camera zoom out the middle of a speech to include a sign that has has nothing to do with what the speaker is talking about. Not to mention that the shot composition would look strange. Professionals would also not cut to a close-up of the phrase (as they do cutting to audience reaction shots) when it would have no bearing on what the speaker is talking about. To do that would insert the directors bias into the broadcast.

Prager is a RW fundy idiot.