PEAD

PEAD
What I Learned

BreakPoint with Charles Colson

February 7, 2005

I’ve been through withdrawal—no, not drugs or alcohol. My addiction was PEAD, that is, pre-election anxiety disorder. I became a junkie, hooked on cable network news-talk.

Through the campaign, after dinner when I was home, I parked myself in front of the tube (something I normally warn against) and surfed the cable talk shows, hungry for the latest tidbit about the Bush-Kerry contest. And I wasn’t above shouting at the TV as the Kerry supporters battled the Bush supporters.

I was not alone. The ratings show that millions of Americans did the same thing.

What do we do after the election? I guess I had gotten so used to it, I stayed glued to the evening cable-talk shows. Then one night in mid-December, I had two blinding revelations.

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