Karl Rove's detailed and tedious explanation of the timeline on the Valerie Plame affair during the Bush years makes it is more clear than ever before that this was a witch hunt that amused the media and thrilled the lowly Democrats but that served no purpose of national security or civi order. It was gotcha, and from the first it was directed at the White House just because George Bush had won re-election and this bedeviled him. Rove's enemies were self-promoting partisans, and good for them (so is Rove); but to pretend there was anything but animal spirits and sniper fire is to pretend that Washington is modest about its obsessions. Witch hunts are diverting in a city of overpriced eateries and bad weather.
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We're all aware of the double standard in the American media. We're all aware that they willfully engaged in anything that would serve to hurt the Bush administration. We know that they did anything they could to get Barack Hussein Obama elected. Their single most effective strategy was to turn Bush into an ogre. It worked. Bush became toxic. In a two-party political system there is only one alternative.
I happened to be in India during most of that time. If I hadn't been able to access various radio talk shows via the internet, I too would have thought that Bush was evil incarnate. The only media that makes it outside our borders is liberal media. Time and time again, people would ask me what I thought of America being in the grips of the most wrong-headed, stupid and incompetent administration in human history.
When Obama came on the scene, everyone (in India and elsewhere) believed that America had been restored to its former glory. And they still do. Indians are not so much affected by what happens in America. True, many of their sons and daughters are now finding themselves out of work and have had to return home. But all in all, any personal hardship suffered still seems to get blamed on the previous administration. And that appears to coincide with the template the liberal press is pursuing in America today.
Unlike overseas, where no alternative voices are heard, Americans have gotten wise. Major print media has seen tremendous declines in readership while liberal cable channels have seen significant declines in viewership as well. They would like to give the impression that these trends are merely due to the inevitable upsurge in the usage of net-based media. This is of course bogus. There are only three reasons why the MSM has suffered such stunning public rejection: CONTENT; CONTENT and CONTENT.
All kinds of polls are allowed about presidential approval ratings, congressional approval ratings; consumer confidence; etc. The poll I have yet to see is the poll that measures media approval ratings. Though, one might say, that cratering subscription figures tell us all we need to know, it would still be nice to have it out there unambiguously in black and white: Media approval numbers rank lower than Congress’.
If any blame can be assigned to the sorry state in which we now find ourselves, it must be assigned to the media in this country. It is they who have played the skewed hand in all of this. Democrats will be Democrats; Republicans will be Republicans; liars will be liars; corruption is corruption. It is up to the media to sort it all out. They have failed us.
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Peterkoelliker only tangentially addresses the video presented here, but he is spot on about the media. I keep waiting for the press to have that enlightened moment when they "get it," and go on the attack of the Obama Administration as they did the Bush Administration. Both Presidencies contributed mightly to the undoing of America, but in different ways. The Fourth Estate should play an important role in maintaining the Republic. So far with Obama, they have been not only absent from their assigned duties......they have been a partisan contributor to the destruction of the Nation by their dereliction of their duties.
I'm waiting for the media to begin their Bush-like atttack on all that is wrong with Obama. But I'm not holding my breath!