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October 30, 2008

Pushing Daisies - America Makes a Big Mistake

by Ferdinand T Cat

Last night American TV viewers had a chance to do something about real hope and substantive change, and instead they tuned in to some goofy political commercial. Basically, they picked Barack Obama (17.4 rating, 27 share) over Pushing Daisies (4.0 rating, 6 share).

Pushing Daisies is the brainchild of Bryan Fuller, who co-created Wonderfalls the only television show in the past two decades whose main characters were sympathetic conservatives. Whereas most TV shows are about finding villains, Wonderfalls was about finding the hidden good in all of us. Pushing Daisies is a little more orthodox-- the main characters solve murders-- but it maintains the same sheen of hope and decency that permeates Fuller's earlier work. In Bad Habits, which aired two weeks ago, the protagonists went to a nunnery, and instead of a pit of corruption, they found a bunch of decent people of faith trying to do the right thing.

Real hope does not come from waiting for the government to steal from the rich and give to the poor. It comes from individual people trying in small ways to make the world a better place. That way, people get the help they need instead of what some faceless bureaucrat thinks they should have. Pushing Daisies has the trappings of a fairy tale, but it's more real than any of the sob stories being paraded in front of you by either major party during this campaign. For the past two years, as the government has lurched through dumb ideas and dangerous mistakes, Pushing Daisies has been an important tool for keeping my spirits up.

I don't believe in getting angry, but if you let my favorite TV show get canceled, I'm going to make an exception.

Respectfully submitted,

Ferdinand T. Cat

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