Dramatization

I was watching Glenn Beck the other day with my parents and he was talking about saying good bye to an old friend to lead into the commercial break. I asked my parents, "who died?" They said they did not know.

So Beck comes back on and is about to do a eulogy for his "old friend," as it turns out this "friend" is school bake sales. I found this to be quite hilarious. Bake sales? Why are we saying good bye to bake sales? Well the answer to that is that it is to fight childhood obesity. So we declare a war on drugs and are losing, have lost or lost it completely, it is a war that we cannot win, just like the fight against obesity, food is just as bad as drugs, people want it and you cannot stop people from eating sweets or cheeseburgers with Krispy Kreme donuts instead of a bun. Now are they not only extinguishing bake sales, they are talking about a sweet tax, which I would group with a sin tax like on cigarettes. My point is the media does make certain issues very dramatic like Beck did with a eulogy to a bake sale, but that just shows that it is not limited to bake sales, they dramatize what the other side does, or makes a politician look worse than they already do. Dramatization lives on as it raises ratings and heart rates!