Media Politics

Maybe it's just me, but I have to admit I'm getting very tired of the media telling me who can win and who cannot. I'm also getting tired of the media telling me we all have to come closer to the middle and it's the middle that matters. The problem with this is that there is very little difference between the left and the right really. We need to be discussing consitutional and unconstitutional where politics are concerned. The republicans most certainly don't have it right which is clear from how reluctant they are to cut government or cut government spending. They also believe government is the answer it is just that they are not as extreme or nearly in the rush to produce a communist nation that the democrats are, but they are certainly still heading there.

They start a bill designed to cut 300 million dollars. Now that is a far amount, but then end up cutting only 30 million dollars. This is not even 1 day's worth of government spending. They were willing to settle for this and it is for this reason that I say that I'm not the least bit interested in having one of those republicans in charge of our economy. They want to slow the RATE of growth of government, but they still believe government is the answer and that the only way it can be the answer is if it gets more of our money.

So back to the media. The media looks at all the wrong things where the candidates are concerned and it is for this reason that we need to ignore them. One of the main things they look at for a viable presidential candidate is how much money they're bringing in for their campaign. This most certainly should not be the primary concern of who we elect. The money they raise is only a small indicator of the number of people who support their views. I say it is only a small indicator because usually a huge portion of that money comes from those who are wealthy and want their interests represented should that candidate win, and not because they really support their views. Because most people of the money does not come from the little people the amount of money really reflect the minority of the people who support that person which probably means that they are not the people we want. Those who are rich as well as the big corporations must feel this person's support can at least in part be bought and thus it already belies the possibility that, that candidate is not one of moral value, so I say best that we avoid that person.

It is also interesting to watch how reluctant the media is to really cover those they don't like such as Herman Cain and Michele Bachman. It indicates that they also feel they have a horse in the race. They are continually telling us how Bachman and Cain are so far behind that they can't win, hoping we'll give up on them. This same thing happened to Alan Keyes several elections ago. he probably expressed and supported what the American people wanted better than anyone else but he hardly got any coverage.

The media are more concerned with how "vulnerable" a candidate is? They avoid bringing up their actual records, or maybe it's just that they've become as lazy as the rest of the Hollywood Elite. They just love to hear themselves talk. They can't be bothered with all the tedium of looking up actual facts and finding out what these people have done. They are too concerned with sound bites.

Consider during the last republican debate that the candidates had a whopping 30 secs to respond on such issues as the war in Iraq, or Afghanistan, or the issue of Iran. Can that really be done in 30 secs? We all know that it cannot but what it means is that it gives the media plenty of room to criticize everything the candidate didn't say or didn't have time to correct or elaborate on due to the 30 second rule. This means that they can twist it any way they like.

It is well past the time that we paid much attention to these lazy propaganda hounds that masquerade as news reporters. No I'm not just talking about MSNBC, or NBC, or CBS, or any of the other LAME STREAM media. FOX News is at least as guilty as the rest when it comes to already starting to declare winners when we're still more than a year out from the election.

We need to start sending all the media outlets emails and telling them how fed up we are with this kind of lame reporting. In many respects they are like our representatives in government. They don't have a clue and won't get a clue till we start making a lot more noise abbout what they're doing.

Yet more evidence of media politics is how the media is now finding Cain guilty of sexual harrassment on nothing more than an allegation. They already believe he's guilty much like the white kids at Duke University were found guilty immediately and have ever had the names tarnished since. Yet Oddly this same media can keep saying Weiner wasn't guilty till it was "proved" no matter how much evidence came up. They did everything they could to sidestep that story till they were forced to address it and even them they tried to help lead Weiner in his answers so it might appear that he was still innocent or at least that it could not be proven one way or the other.

I started writing much of the above before the Cain campaign came to a crashing halt, but it seems he's been tried in the court of the media and public opinion. In spite of the fact that not one actual indictment or one piece of evidence was brought against him they continued to report on him as though he were guilty till he finally just gave up. I've seen the tactic work all too often and  even destroy both the marriage and careers of men simply because they were presumed guilty till proven innocent.

Is this really what our nation has come to? Is this really what our politics have come to?

Yet when we have one truly questionable situation after another involving Obama, his birth records, school records, work history, associations, all of which are either already documented or at least easily documented there is hardly a word from the media including Fox News.