They know how we feel, now what?

I'm talking about Bill Moyers, David Brancaccio, Lou Dobbs and all of those they parade before the camera to tell us how horrible our lives are and how much they feel sorry for us.

Until now it has given me a warm satisfying feeling knowing that others feel the way I do, but when it's repeated often enough, a phenomenon of Operant Conditioning occurs called "Extinction." The warm fuzzy feeling wears off because the situation does not improve as a result of being repeatedly exposed to the same stimuli.

The veneer has warn away from these social empathy programs because their messages have been ignored by our lawmakers. They appear to have served no other purpose but devices of attraction for the weak and the weary like myself, to finally at the end of the programs, discover their sponsors, and nothing more.

This is the extent of socially responsible public affairs television. Don't be fooled by public affairs programs, especially C-SPAN's Washington Journal, because it only caters to one's need to not feel alone in the world, and absolutely nothing more.

The one thing all of these programs have in common is that they provide no solutions, and they no longer embarrass our leaders into making good on their election campaign promises.

From now on I'll stick with The Daily Show and The Colbert Report on Comedy Central, and then switch to Adult Swim on Cartoon Network.