Let’s Burst The Media Bubble.

Let’s burst the media bubble.

The Dot Com bubble burst in the nineties, the housing bubble burst in the first decade of the new Milena. Now it’s time that we burst the phony media bubble.

Ted Turner taught us that real news is a big, highly profitable business. In creating CNN, he expanded world news way beyond what CBS, NBC and ABC were doing.

Remember, Walter Cronkite, Eric Sevareid, Edward R. Murrow and other trusted network reporters, commentators, and correspondents of the fifties and sixties? You know of course, that they had extended control of what they reported. We trusted our favorite reporters and they were careful and subtle about their bias’s.

Who knew, early on, that the New York and Los Angeles Times were left leaning socialist promoting Democrat favoring dailies?

Ted Turner came along and taught us that news is big business, really big business. He created a whole new medium in CNN and in so doing opened the eyes of the public about what really good news reporting is. He reported the simple news from where ever it was happening. It was exciting, topical, and profitable very profitable.

Then cable jumped it to compete with CNN and the big three networks. New news shows like, Fox and CNBC exploited the news revenue boom. Dan Rather was exposed and CBS as a big time left leaning channel that was anti Bush during his campaign for the President. Editorials in The Times were exposed as left leaning as well. They even took a poll among reporters during the Presidential Democratic Convention and found that eighty five percent were registered Democrats. To be fair, Republican leaning radio star Rush Limbaugh, Cable Fox News and The Wall Street Journal had chosen sides too, just like the country had chosen sides.

We have people in the media that have earned their chops not by toiling away as reporters for years but as well spoken media stars who are selling us daily on their points of view. Unfortunately they are not reporters, but salesmen. The public is not getting real news anymore but editorials, and that’s not real news to anyone but it's effect on the public is.

If the media is to be believed then we have the worst President of all time (the polls say so) because, they say, he created a tragic housing market, terribly high energy costs, a disastrous economy, and an unwinnabe war. Salesmen media have done a clever job of genetating revenue for their futures and by pointing the finger at Republicans. You can tell by the polls.

The facts are that America has a 5% unemployment rate, lower than most of the free world, low interest rates, lower than most of the free world, no more terror attacks since 9/11, a totally unpopular, uncooperative Congress, and ninety eight percent of home owners paying their mortgages on time. We have an oil crisis brought on by forty years of Congresses and environmentalists forcing America into becoming the most energy dependent in history. We have no new oil refineries in the works, no new oil drilling in Alaska or the west cost, the gulf cost or the east cost and no new nuclear plants in the works. We are fighting a war that we cannot afford to lose because we are up against an enemy that believes they are in a religious war.

We have had economic ups and downs in this country for many decades. We have had unpopular Presidents before, we have had Congresses that have had low ratings before. We have had darling Presidential candidates before. We have fought wars, had inflation, high unemployment , high gas prices, and companies losing money. But we have never had such strident bias in the media with such a powerful influence over the public before. The media has painted a mass hysteria, lock step picture that is leading the public down the proverbial garden path.

The public actually believes that the country is in terrible economic straits, that we are hated by the rest of the world and a new messiah is coming to save us. It ain’t true folks, it’s a irresponsible media hyped story with a political agenda that’s only good for advertising revenue and Democrats.

By the way CNN is no longer owned by Ted Turner and the mass media is no longer reliable. Trust only the Internet for the truth. I suggest The Drudge Report for starters.

All is not what it appears to be

Obama isn’t what he has claimed to be to his spell-bound audiences. His denouncement of Rev Wright has been cautious, careful and now showing anger comes too late. Obama claimed only a month ago that he never heard the kind of rhetoric that Wright was shown saying in the many video clips of his Sunday Sermons. That Obama must not have been in church that Sunday, he says, and his public bought that excuse. Then Obama mildly denounced Wright.
Well B.S.
As late as this Monday, in front of the National Press Club the Reverend re-affirmed his racist beliefs and now finally Obama get mad. Why, because he can’t make light of his poor choice of pastor, mentor, and friend any more. Now Obama has to put on a show of anger with this man like many sensible American’s have.
Only now when his run for the highest office in the land is jeopardized by Wright does he renounce his friend with anger, a friend that is a blatant racist.
Again, if Obama didn’t know that his friend was a racist for the past 30 years and that his friends, Farrakhan and associates weren’t also racist, than how can we trust Obama’s selection process and judgment of people that will stand by is side during his term in office.

I believe that his wife Michele, reflected Wright’s negative racial influence when she announced that because her husband received huge support to run for President that she was finally proud to be an American. What happens if and when he loses, will she go back to not being proud to be an American like Reverend Wright? What about Wright’s followers, will they be unable to find a reason to be proud Americans too?

I think this whole dirty race issue is shameful in America society in 2008. Eeveryone thought, including me, that Obama had emerged as a new breed of black Presidential candidate, abeit a left leaning one. One who had shed the old sixties black vs. white, and white vs. black issues and moved on. But no, despite all Obama’s denouncements of Reverend Wright, I just don’t believe him anymore. I think Obama was and still is more influenced by Reverend Jeremiah Wright and friends than we care to know.

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Obama

Louis Farrakhan, Jessie Jackson, Reverend Wright of Chicago have for years sucked the lifeblood from the blacks. They pretend to champion a cause that is no longer valid. They spew bitterness, hatred and anger to anyone who will listen.
Everyone has had it tough at sometime or other adapting to America starting with the Indians, the Chinese, Jews, Vietnamese, and Japanese, Germans and many others. All originally huddled together for security, language and custom reasons, some for generations while adapting to this country. They all faced discrimination. Eventually, like the Borg, they assimilated into the everyday fabric of American life. African American have no exclusivity on discrimination in fact the promotion of Black separatism needs to end for their own welfare like ending Black Entertainment Television and all black colleges, Black Caucasus in Washington and. It’s time for the parasite black leaders of the sixties to go by way of the dinosaurs and let their people go have a life.
It is an issue in today’s political arena because we have a Black Presidential candidate whose spiritual advisor is a hate monger from the Sixties. Obama’s friend of twenty years says things like, “God Damn America.” Does that sound like a minister trying to spread Gods word in a church, or a radical trying to cause trouble?
I would also like to see Obama address another issue during his campaign. How can one man garner nine out of ten black voters to his election. Question, are nine out of ten black voters against the war, and do ninety percent want to raise taxes, is that vast majority against McCain and Hillary because they are so on the other side of the issues than Obama is? Or are they a herd to follow blindly after their new black leader?

Immigration

Building a wall along our southern border seems to be the only way to stop illegal immigration. Some say walls don’t work and that building them goes against the spirit of the Statue of Liberty and what this country stands for.
We have caught a very high percentage of undesirable illegal immigrants bringing in drugs, weapons and people that want to do harm to this country.
American has never refused legal immigration. We have laws that all citizens must obey so the law must apply to everyone.
Try entering any civilized country in the world and you will be arrested and deported.
Never before were controls and fences necessary, now they are.

Hillary

Hillary won 55% of the Pennsylvania primary vote to 45% for Obama. She campaigned by telling her voters that she will end the war, bring home the troops and end the Bush tax cuts. She pushed again for Universal Government run Health Care. Obama essentially did the same but he was carrying some baggage like the Rev. Wright issue, and his blunder on rural Pennsylvanians clinging to there guns and religion because they are bitter over the condition of their lives. Oh, they both bashed Bush along the way, naturally.

The major overriding argument from the beginning of both campaigns has been change. They both offer change. What change? Congress is Democratically controlled now and it wants to end the Bush tax cuts, end the war, have national health care, doens't it? Bush hasn't vetoed any proposals of Congress. So what change can Hillary or Obama bring to a Congress that will not cut off funding for the war, hasn't stopped the Bush tax cuts, and has not put forward a univerasal health care plan. Hillary and Obama are both Senators, they could put forward bills that do the things they say they want right now or could have put those bills forward any time in the past seven years for Hillary or three years for Obama.

Bush’s approval numbers are the lowest all time, although Carter’s numbers compete well.
Congress’s approval numbers are the lowest all time too. Why?
I offer this reason for why this campaign slogan of change is ridiculous and insulting.
We all know our government has become dysfunctional and that Americans are and impatient people. We want instant gratification in every thing we do in life. We have not known real hardship in in over sixty years. American of today wants instant promotions, instant stock appreciation, goodies like, Plasma TV’s, iPods, and Play Stations, low interest rates, double digit home appreciation and Hummers. We want a war against terrorism and if we don’t instantly win we say, screw it, blame Bush and we change direction. We want the border closed overnight and when it is not we blame someone, Bush most likely. We did have a solid economy but when we suddenly did not we wanted and instant bail out from our financial problems so it would not hurt so bad. And we blamed Bush. We are lazy in that we are so into ourselves we have no time for boring goings on in the Capital. We have politicians in Washington that are more interested in retaining power and office while placating the lazy apathetic public than cooperating with each other as and efficient functional body.

We can’t change Washington any more, forget it. We have ourselves to blame for we are a polarized nation of two very entrenched and opposite mine sets.
One of old fashioned ideals, Republicans, the other of unrealistic idealism, Democrats.

Real change in politics (Washington) is a slogan, not a reality.