How the Liberals Have Screwed Up the Economy

Breaking News: Tabloid News Has No Place On “News” Networks

    A few days ago, I was watching Fox News when whatever it was that was watching was pre-empted for a Breaking News Story.  Said story was that Lindsay Lohan had been arrested.  I was disgusted that such tabloid material was considered actually newsworthy.  I switched to the other news networks, MSNBC and CNN.  They too thought that everyone needed to know right then that Lindsey Lohan had been arrested.

    I don’t know about you, but I’m sick to death of hearing anything at all about Lindsay, Paris, Nicole, and any other over-privileged, spoiled, lazy, worthless, celebrities that can do nothing but be arrested for driving under the influence then don’t think they should serve time in jail.  If we must see that, isn’t that why we have the E! network and others like it?  Why should real news networks devote time to such trash?  Leave it to Entertainment Tonight.  I’m much more interested in the Do-Nothing Congress in session now and the very real War on Terror.

Breaking News: Tabloid News Has No Place On "News" Networks

    A few days ago, I was watching Fox News when whatever it was that was watching was pre-empted for a Breaking News Story.  Said story was that Lindsay Lohan had been arrested.  I was disgusted that such tabloid material was considered actually newsworthy.  I switched to the other news networks, MSNBC and CNN.  They too thought that everyone needed to know right then that Lindsey Lohan had been arrested.

    I don’t know about you, but I’m sick to death of hearing anything at all about Lindsay, Paris, Nicole, and any other over-privileged, spoiled, lazy, worthless, celebrities that can do nothing but be arrested for driving under the influence then don’t think they should serve time in jail.  If we must see that, isn’t that why we have the E! network and others like it?  Why should real news networks devote time to such trash?  Leave it to Entertainment Tonight.  I’m much more interested in the Do-Nothing Congress in session now and the very real War on Terror.

The Un-Fairness Doctrine: The U.S. Government VS the Citizens of the U.S.

    It seems to me that there is an invisible war being fought in America today, a war between the people of the United States and her government.  You see our government, especially congress, no longer seems to care what we as a nation want or how we want our nation governed.  Instead, they want to reform everything in order to fit their own agenda:  an agenda that to me seems like steps closer and closer to the point where we no longer have any of the freedoms that our forefathers fought for so valiantly.  They wish to strip away those freedoms that the men who almost two-hundred and thirty-one years ago signed the Declaration of Independence for, thus committing treason against the Crown of England.  If they ever help anyone, it's usually people who aren't even the voting public.

    The Amnesty Bill, er the Immigration Bill died today on the Senate floor, again.  All I can say is that it's a victory for the American people, despite what mass media and most lawmakers say otherwise.  Someone must be looking out for us, and I mean neither the legislative nor the executive branches of our government.  A number of Senators have displayed confusion and dismay at the outcry against the bill.  Here's an excerpt from cnsnews.com:

"Sen.
Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) said the influx of telephone calls and faxes
from opponents of the bill had jammed   Senate telephone lines.

Sen.
Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) described the fight over the immigration bill as "a
war between the American people and their government," adding that the
vote on cloture was "about whether or not we're going to listen to the
American people."

Reid criticized the outpouring of opposition,
saying calls and letters have been "filled with prejudice and hatred
and venom." He said he turned one letter over to investigators when it
suggested he should enter a witness protection program for supporting
the bill.

"I know what's been going on out there," said Sen.
Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.). "I know the calls that have been made. I
know some of the threats that have been made. And yet we have a chance
with this bill to really do the right thing."

She said senators
and constituents who don't support the measure "don't understand the
bill." Feinstein urged her colleagues to vote for cloture because "if
we miss this opportunity, there is not likely to be another opportunity
in the next few years to fix this."

    No, Senator Feinstein, we don't support the measure because WE DO UNDERSTAND THE BILL.  You see, we don't like it.  We don't think that it has the best interests of the United States at heart.  It has the best interests of people who are breaking the law and living here illegally at heart.  It has the best interests of politicians hoping to gain a bevy of new, grateful constituents.  However, for those of us who were born and raised here; those of us who don't break the law, but respect it would get the shaft.  Thankfully enough of us are well-informed enough to call you it.

    That brings me to my next topic:  Apparently we the people of the United States of America are too well-informed.  Too many of us listen to Conservative Talk Radio.  I personally love to listen to Rush Limbaugh, Phil Valentine, and Glenn Beck.  I may not agree with every work that they say, but I agree more with what they say than what is constantly spat from print and televised media.  Even Fox News, which is supposed to have a conservative slant isn't really conservative enough for me.  I can't stand to listen to the liberally biased trash that spews forth from them any more.

    Long before Dan Rather was discovered to have made up evidence against President Bush, I knew that televised news was purely liberal.  It's just that it's gotten to be ridiculously more liberal in recent years.  If I want to hear about things that I care about, I'll listen to talk radio and read on the internet.  Now however, several key Democrats want to silence conservative talk radio.  Apparently We the People know too much, and Democrats are now chomping at the teeth to revive the Fairness Doctrine, for radio only.  Here's a clip from the most liberal of all print media, The New Your Times:

"After getting hammered for years by the conservative takeover of
talk radio, Democrats are fighting back on several fronts — from
challenging their foes on air to endorsing the revival of the Fairness
Doctrine, the abandoned federal regulation that once obligated
broadcasters to balance the political opinion they air.

Elizabeth Edwards, wife of Democratic presidential contender John Edwards,
raised the roof on this emerging campaign against conservative punditry
by phoning in to MSNBC’s “Hardball” on Tuesday to debate right-wing
icon Ann Coulter.

Behind
the scenes, prominent Democratic lawmakers are exploring the idea of
more regulation. While some of this is aimed at showing the party’s
grass-roots activists that their leaders are fighting back, it also
provokes a serious debate about the role of government in regulating
public airwaves.

Unless broadcasters take steps to voluntarily
balance their programming, they can expect a return of fairness rules
if Democrats keep control of Congress and win the White House next
year.

Contributing Editor Craig Crawford is a news analyst for NBC, MSNBC and CNBC. He can be reached at ccrawford@cq.com."

    My reaction to that is why don't I just go live in a Communist country where all media is regulated by the government.  Why don't I just let the government control what clothes I wear and how much I eat?  Oh wait, they're already trying to control what I eat with dietary restriction on transfats and so on.  We should all be automatons with no thought or action varying from what the government wants.

    Just the thought of the government trying to reign in control of talk radio and impose fairness in itself is unfair because they certainly won't be doing that to television or print media.  Seriously, for every minute that I have to watch Chris Matthews, Brian Williams, and Dan Rather spew their liberal garbage, I want to see Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Phil Valentine.  If we're going to do this, let's make everything fair.

    That won't happen though.  Our government cares nothing for the American people, and slowly they'll learn as we vote them out of office that unless they take the power of the vote away, we will eventually win.  You can't keep information from the people.  You can't manipulate it to fit your whims.  We will eventually learn the truth, and the truth will set us free.

Hey, ABC, CBS, CNN, and All Other News Organizations, Poll Me! I Don’t Think You’re Accurate.

Every day some news organization comes out with a poll that is supposed to reflect the views of the entire nation. I usually don’t agree with them though. In fact, not only do I now agree with these polls, but I sometimes think that they are used more as a tool to frighten the public rather than inform them / us.

I seriously have to wonder just who CNN, The Washington Post, CBS, ABC, NBC, and even Fox news actually poll because so often the polls don’t reflect Middle America, but only one side of the ideological / political table. If they really polled regular Americans, the results would be more varied than they appear because not everyone thinks that the nation is in a downward spiral.

If average Americans were to be polled instead of people whom the media knows will lean in the direction they choose, things wouldn’t appear as bad as the networks wish them to. That would defeat the sensationalist purpose of today’s media to claim that things are worse than they’ve ever been. They would lose that ridiculous edge of extremes all media has adopted in order to gain viewers.

I would love to be polled on all topics by all of the major networks. I would love to feel that polls are accurate and not just greatly rigged political and commercial vehicles meant to sway the opinions of everyday Americans and frighten them.