Or, is it spreadin’ the fertilizer? Joe the plumber reinforced some things for me this week. Some things that are important to me personally and to our country.
One of them is the death of objective honest journalism in America. Maybe I was just fooled into believing most of my life that such a thing ever existed here. The hammer and sickle or crescent moon media is not nearly as focused as ours is on achieving their political objectives. When a closed group of people have the power to sway public opinion to support their ideology while leaving them blind to important facts, it is very dangerous. I hereby declare media integrity as the national oxymoron of the United States. In that assessment, I have to include Fox also, especially Brit Hume’s “all-stars’” assessment of the last presidential debate. I did not watch the debate, but listened to most of it and the all-star spin that followed it. Clearly, they did not hear the same debate as me. That is quite telling. It is telling, because obviously those who reside inside the beltway hear things much differently from me. I cannot choose which all-star swoon was the most nauseating. Substance mattered not as they described Senator Obama as presidential, elegant, articulate…. They failed to point out, however, that he articulately and elegantly told some real whoppers. Like Colin Powell, they all reminded me of Democrat super delegates – hedging their bets for future favor.
Contributed by J D on October 19, 2008 at 04:31 PM in |