"A new television ad released Wednesday by Sen. Barack Obama's campaign
highlights the closure of Corning Inc.'s plant in State College, Pa.,
and accuses Wa****ngton with Sen. John McCain's help of selling out the
workers," the Associated Press re****ts.
So what did Corning make at the plant? The ad, which you can see here,
does not say, but the AP story does: "glass tubes for television sets
and computer monitors."
It's hard to remember now, but in the olden days TV sets and computer
monitors used a technology called cathode ray tubes. A CRT consisted of
an electron gun that projects an image onto a fluorescent screen. In
most cases the gun had to be some distance from the screen, with the
entire assembly enclosed in glass, which meant that TVs were bulky and
boxy (hence the term "idiot box").
In modern times, the CRT has given way to superior technologies such as
plasma and liquid crystal, which take up less space and provide superior
picture quality. This is an enormous blessing to all Americans who watch
TV or use computers.
It's hard to imagine a more backward-looking position than mourning the
decline of the picture-tube industry. What'll Obama do next, promise to
restore American supremacy in the manufacture of buggy whips, iron lungs
and floppy disks?
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It is simply breathtaking to watch the glee and abandon with which
the liberal media and the Angry Left have been attempting to turn
our military victory in Iraq into a second Vietnam quagmire. Too bad
for them, it's failing.
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