There are few things more delicious than watching the conservative bullshit machine eat itself. Though they spew the same hateful poison they always have, and still garner huge audiences of like-minded a-holes, the Rush Limbaughs and Glenn Becks of the world have begun to fall gracelessly out of favor with the population at large. Neither of the Neo-con superstars can keep an A-list sponsor for long these days. Limbaugh can’t even buy a pro sports team without a humiliating public rejection. Come on, people! Show some respect for the King of Dickheads! I mean Death Panels for Grandma? The Obama citizenship “Debate?” This is good stuff! Where’s the support? Where’s the love? Well, it’s gone, for the most part, fellas, I hope you enjoyed it while you were knee-deep.
On air, the K.O.D. and friends will blame everyone from Bill Clinton to the Jews that run Hollywood for their demise. But we all know who’s to blame… The queers in the Liberal Media!
Which, in my opinion, is partially true. More accurately, I might call them the “Spineless Weiner Media.” You see, even though the possibility exists that the press in general may be capable of an all-campus political spin one way or the other, it is much more believable that they are motivated by a greater, more dangerous force than some underlying political orientation. Fear. The media, specifically TV and Newspapers, in the last few decades have been terrified to be perceived as aligned with the losing side of an issue. The upshot of this is that every issue raised by radicals on either side of the political spectrum has come to be handled as if it were valid, lest the journalists, media outlet, and mega-corporation that owns all of their asses be construed as biased. How else do you explain a decorated Vietnam War Veteran being badly beaten in a presidential election by a coke-snorting, draft-dodging, business-wrecking booze-hound incompetent? It’s because of the swift-boaters. Because Kerry loves the French. Because Theresa Heinz is a Nazi dominatrix. These nut-ball ideas are simply repeated and amplified through our media because no single journalist in the main stream will cut them down. And really it would take very little digging in most cases.
The most recent evidence of the existence of the news-pussy system is the weakening of the hard-core right’s grasp on talk radio and cable “news.” The conservative loudmouths who bullied the Liberals for the last 8 years are getting hushed like the drunken cousin toasting the wedding party. That’s because the teams have changed and the Dems are at bat. Even though the Whitehouse and Congress possess the majority, and enough political clout to do pretty much what Bush and his pals did at the beginning of the decade, and ram their crazy partisan legislation through, one pork-laden bill after another, they have been largely given a pass, though they’ve been grossly ineffectual thus far. At the same time Rush and Glenn are getting the business and can’t cash a check. Most likely, it’s because now is bad to be a conservative.
Don’t get me wrong - I love it for the moment, simply because turnabout is fair play. But that certainly doesn’t make it right. Ever since the news has become a profit machine for TV networks and papers, the lust for more viewers, more readers, and more SPONSORS has eclipsed the passion for truth and honest reporting. There are still some bastions of journalistic integrity out there, but friends, they are few and far between. And too few of us left that want to know the Truth, even if we won’t like it. The fact of the matter is that every reporter, every anchor, is accountable to somebody. The difference is, that somebody used to be you and me.
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