Democracy is not ascendant. It is not dominant. It is beleaguered. The extent to which young people have been drawn away from public concerns and given this extraordinary range of diversions makes it very likely they could then rally to a demagogue.
I know I am more of a "doomer" than most readers here. All I want is for everyone to pay close. attention. I want to be wrong about the tsunami I see coming. In this case, I want to be a kook.
I spent a lot of time joking around on this blog. "Obama Scriptures" etc - because if you lose your sense of humor - you have lost it all as far as I am concerned. But this next sentence is deadly serious: The American Media is doing real and lasting damage to the American republic by refusing to report on Senator Obama in a balanced manner and they should be held to account.
We have already seen what the overwhelmingly pro Obama and sexist media did to the best candidate during the primaries. The same unwillingness or inability to objectively question and report on Obama in a balanced manner is still occurring. The lack of an independent press is as dangerous to a free country as voter fraud. CNN and MSNBC are the biggest culprits. Newsweek is an Obama rag at this point. Time is barely better. The New York Times continues its descent - most notably by refusing to publish John McCain's response to an Obama piece they did publish. This is not Stalinist control of the media. It is simpler. The delusion Obama promotes among the "educated" class in America fits perfectly into the World view of many of those who call themselves "journalists." No one is stopping investigations by Time or Newsweek into William Ayres or Rezko or the Alice Palmer affair or a thousand other questionable parts of Obama's past. It is not being done because the journalists and their bosses don't want it done. They like him. Fine. This does not excuse journalistic malfeasance. The media is shameful. It has been for a while. But we are not talking about Natalie Holloway or Paris Hilton or O.J. These examples of media over indulgence did not affect all of us. The media kid glove treatment of Obama matters. We have every right to know what he has or has not done. Who he has associated himself with. Frankly, we have every right to look into his wife's past as well.
His idiotic trip overseas is over. In the U.S. it is called a success by our media.
This article fits nicely with the Youtube below - Obama's broken promises to the indigent in his own district. Any sane person can see a pattern. Add the broken promises on FISA, public financing, and his backtrack on his own constituents regarding Exelon and nuclear power (Warning: link to Huffington!!!) and many others and what emerges is a self serving dilettante - not the man the media adores. It is testimony to how far the American media has sunk that blogs should be pointing this out - not the New York Times.
