What we don't know is why the American consumers of
news continue to go along for the ride? Can it be we are no different
from ancient Romans who bought tickets to watch the gladiators have at
each other thousands of years ago; so much for "intelligent design."
Okay, bottom line: the Democrats still don't have one definite
presidential nominee, so what? They have a platform, right? The
Republicans have an escalator. The Dems offer two candidates candidates
both of whom would be a big improvement over the current occupant of
the Oval Office, either of whom would be a reprieve from four more
years of being am-bushed by neo-con wannabe, John McCain.
The larger question is who cares about McCain's policies, after all,
when we have survivor T.V., and a free for view media circus that is
complicit in making the decision about who will lead the Democratic
ticket, in November, largely irrelevant by the time it is reached.
Who cares that a rubber-stamped Republican nominee-in-waiting is poised
in the wings to run away with the prize? Why should it matter if the
majority of voters know only that John McCain is a senator from
Arizona, who was once a prisoner of war? Why would we expect anything
more from a media that was infatuated with Paris Hilton's DUI, and O.J.
Simpson's high profile run from the law?
But, how can we just sit back and allow a presidential election to be
hijacked by the special interests of dumbing down the electorate such
that a presidential contest is barely distinguishable from the
Indianapolis 500, or any inelegant freeway car chase?
This same media that feeds us our daily pablum about the efficacy of
the surge is letting the McCain "maverick" label stick, a label that is
about as current as bell bottoms. Anyone who still thinks of John
McCain as a reformer hasn't been paying attention to his recent voting
history with respect to veterans, and pay discrimination, nor how he's
reneged on revamping campaign financing, as well as ending the Bush tax
advantage for the rich.
Maybe we should all turn our televisions off for three weeks in
protest, and insist that the broadcast media put on their boxing
gloves, and go a few rounds with the heir apparent, so-called
presumptive (read "designated") Republican nominee for president. After
all, doesn't John McCain deserve equal air time? We then can be treated
to a McCain v. McCain debate, and can witness the McCain who was
against Bush before he was for Bush.
Maybe we should read Paddy Chayefsky instead, get "mad as hell," and
return to the days when "you pays your money, you take your choice."
Nowadays, -you pay your money, and you lose your voice. Strange, isn't
it, how artfully selective deception is practiced. Notice how we didn't
hear a peep from the mainstream about why Rudy Giuliani dropped out so
quickly, or whatever happened to Ron Paul. What about how Mitt Romney
can supportsHillary Clinton, or why she's on Bush's buddy list?
What does it tell us about any candidate who shadow boxes with a
sitting president, and passes up the opportunity to challenge her
Republican Party opponent? Can it be because there is little, in
McCain, for Hillary to challenge. With the possible exception of
nominations to the Supreme Court, we can expect little difference
between the presidencies of McCain and Clinton when it comes to foreign
policy — i.e., war. One would be foolish to expect a seismic shift in
the economy were McCain to win the White House.
Obama, on the other hand, has made it his mission to take on McCain
openly, and what he calls a "third term for the Bush White House."
Since we're not given the benefit of watching the Republicans go for
each other's jugulars endlessly on primetime T.V., maybe it's time for
the media itself to step up to the plate, and give the Republican
nominee a run for his money not on the nonsense issues like who his
minister is, but maybe even on how he voted in 2000, as Arianna
Huffington has suggested.
The larger question is — why is the mainstream media complicit in
rigging an election? By hyperfocusing on the infighting of one
political party, the MSM has virtually stifled the crucial dialogue
between the two parties vying for the White House in one of the most
important presidential campaigns of this republic.
By allowing John McCain to bask in silence and, in effect, drowning out
his stand on vital issues that have taken center stage in the
Democrat's debate, the press is effectively engaging in the politics of
disenfranchisement.
It's time for John McCain to do his time in the spotlight, and for the
media to do its job. If it had, the Clinton campaign would have timed
out weeks ago.
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