Barack's minions in the Fourth Estate: the most dangerous part of all

A gentleman, very close to me, a 70s publisher of a high-budget liberal college daily (he was 20 at the time) and later the proud holder of golden handcuffs who was maybe headed to a major publishing job in one of the big dailies, left the industry because of people who run the major dailies...and those who wrote OpEds. They were crazier than pet coons.

But then, back then, he sort of was too. I'm glad he got over it. Once he made $500, as the joke goes, he became a Republican.

Today's media has evolved into a force of nature brought about by imagery and imagination reinforced by words. That is all there is to it. Add some music and you're off to a new reality. If it worked for Hitler; it'll work for you.

What makes them so craven, so callow, and unrealistic? Why would they come up with an idea that their own country, known for its goodness to them as well as to others, is such a horrid place? Because they've had to relinquish nothing. They've given up nothing. They have no stake in this country. Moreover, many of them are part of large group of people who are here for the very reason to disrupt things.

Look around you. We are not in a recession or a depression, yet we sound and act as if we are.

We have 98 percent of our homeowners still living in their homes, yet we are to think that we have millions upon millions, ala the Great Depression, living on the streets.

Because there are scads of press people and the world watches, Senator Obama has got away with saying that America tortures people. No one has called him on it. He says it as if he is an official representative of my country. How dare he. Yet the Fourth Estate, who is charged with protecting my democracy from reckless accusatory fascist speech, does nothing. We dare not for if we do our politically correct media will cast us as bigots. Fascists that they are.

We are told over and over that this war which many of us approved of was illegal. It has yet to have been shown that it is indeed illegal. And the press and media continue to allow spokespeople from different persuasions to perpetuate this lie. The fact is it is a legal war.

We must remember what The Fourth Estate by definition is meant to do: protect democracy, not to protect and or practice fascism tactics which has been and is on display before our very eyes--yesterday, today and tomorrow--until Prince Barack returns to the United States.

The whole world is seeing and some are even commenting on said disgraceful display. Following is an example of someone who still has critical thinking abilities.

Read it and weep (from laughing at all of the sycophants of whom will be written en masse decades later, "they were so corrupt they knew little of reality and others outside their realm.").

Then pray real hard that Rupert Murdoch and other freedom lovers like him don't die. Copy and paste.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/gerard_baker/article4392846.ece

Thanks for the read.

Hillary runs away with O'Reilly and the fork runs away with the spoon

I sat all morning visualizing these two who--without their aides knowing--made arrangements to meet later in the evening to watch The O'Reilly Factor.

There they linger in their stolen moment, a quiet rendezvous over drinks in the booth in the corner in the back in the dark. He sips a Coke (he doesn't drink alcohol--a good thing) and she slams a double Tanq on the rocks with three olives--a great thing. Good taste, Hill.

They gaze into one another's eyes. He's smitten; she is too. She adores tall, lanky men called Bill. He likes that brain of hers especially since Pennsylvania. (That's why she needs the Tanq.) Who knew? After all her years of O'Reilly/Fox avoidance Hillary and those big publishing types like Murdoch must get each other now. Good. It's about time. There's hope for lower taxes yet.

If it weren't for all those children and the two spouses , not to mention the morals ...maybe in a different time and place these two may have been today's clean alternative Bill and Hillary.

When I finally snapped out of it I sat down to write this post and finally with that imagery in mind the long awaited Hillary-O'Reilly interview began.

Senator Clinton, NOW you've found your voice!
What have we here. Finally a substantive discussion that every mainstream news outlet can eat their hearts out over. She's one tough woman. Tough. Tough. Why. I'd love to talk to her. She reminds me of someone very close to me.

My non plussed husband demands, "Well, hell, Andrea. Why doncha' just vote for her!?"

"I would," I casually answered, "if she'd get on the Republican ticket with McCain as Veep and keep moving center. In fact, I started liking her when she started talking dirty about Iran last weekend."

(smirk)

My husband left the room in a huff. Poor dear. He hates these election years.

Congratulations, Mrs. Clinton. You've broken through to women like me: we who thought you thought we were beneath you.

Keep this up and maybe some of the rest of us who are trying to be ourselves can break through to the other side too and be honest about what we really think without a bunch of people pushing us this way and that to say this and that to make everyone on earth happy but ourselves. (Some of us do that, whether we admit it or not, you know.)

You obviously were enjoying being yourself today, Senator Clinton, and it was refreshing. I may not vote for you (the tax and abortion thing) but I sure have seen a side of you that is admirable and extremely likable. In another place and time we probably would have been friends.

Ironically, it may be women like me--older white women--who could put you in the White House. Women like me who never had an scintilla of power in our lives. Hmmm. I'm getting a headache from all the...well, headiness.

This Bill brings out the best in you.

Thanks for the read.