Is it time to kill your television?

What is so depressing today - other than the Dodgers lost both games back east - is that it appears to me that the idea that we have a vibrant and open election process is dead.

The concept that we choose our leaders is history. We have now seen this media/power elite game in 3 consecutive elections - they choose - we are told. The way Obama is handled by the press and the way W was in 2000 are strikingly similar. Except the media is much more overt in its adoration of Obama. Because they can be...
The same process unfolded before the Iraq invasion. We are being coached and cajoled and massaged into an Obama presidency.
Why?
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Is it time to kill your television?