Let's face it, no one is objective. As stated ad nauseum in the earlier blog, what a newspaper, broadcaster, commentator -- whatever -- what they choose to publicize and how they publicize it are both pretty subjective value judgments.
The whole idea of objectivity in journalism was only invented less than 100 years ago. And it's pretty much an impossible dream, maybe something to shoot for. But I'd rather know the biases up front and listen to both sides, instead of listening to one side and hearing them claim it as the one and only "Truth."
I must say, too, when what Anita (pup-tent-on-her-head) Dunn said that Fox News was not a news organization like CNN is.... My initial reaction was something like "Right!" Actually, after watching Susan Roesgen stumping for the Comrade at the Chicago Tea Party last summer, I've entirely discounted CNN as a reliable news organization. Fox News is nothing like CNN.
Actually, the local news from the Chicago affliates of all the networks -- with the obvious exception of CNN -- aren't that bad. What sucks are the national broadcasts that come from the networks. They are so terribly biased they can't even see it. It's like they're color blind and keep insisting that yellow is green because that's the way they see it. Yet they believe they have a lock on "Truth."
All of their friends agree that they're right. They can look stuff up that supports their views. So they must be right. And apparently they don't look much further, are incapable of considering another perspective. No imagination or no brains?
I can usually predict what liberals are going to say because I understand their point of view, crazy as it is. (That's why I ramble about their psychology, even though that's pretty unprofessional.) But liberals haven't got any kind of clue about conservative views. Although they think they do.
Like, liberals believe:
- All military people are warmongers -- not true, most military would rather do anything else but go to war;
- Rich people are all greedy and inconsiderate -- not true, they fund all the charities in the US, for one thing, and give us all jobs, for another;
- All blacks are socialists -- not a chance;
- And all women are preoccupied with their breasts -- size, tumors, nursing -- and with their family's health. I think men are more fascinated with breasts than women are, and women do have to make most of the doctor appointments. However, apart from that, I know as many women as men who eat junk food and smoke.
Look at the facts. I mean actual facts. Organizations exist that tediously sit and count how many news stories an event generates, who runs the stories, and if they give it a positive or negative slant. Fox News comes up all the time with a real balance of positive and negative for both liberal and conservative politicians and issues. Just about all the other news outlets reflect a liberal bias. Dig around in this report from Journalism.org, surveys conducted by the Pew Trust.
So what it comes down to is that the Comrade and the Merry Marxists don't like the hard questions. They have no answers. They seem to think it's good enough to say, "I won the election." Or, "It's all George W. Bush's fault." And with that attitude, the win last year will be their last (fingers crossed).
Look at the Comrade's face some time when he's in front of an audience soaking up the cheers and applause. He looks like he's in the throes of sexual ecstasy. Entertainers aren't that emotionally needy, or at least they know better than to let it show. It really gives me the creeps.
Thomas Jefferson once said that Lafayette had a "wolfish appetite for fame." I think the Comrade is the same way, only a "wolfish appetite for praise." He can't deal with criticism. He can't -- or at least he won't -- even answer any real, factual questions. He spins out his campaign slogans and we're all supposed to just lap it up.
Honestly, I'm starting to think he's a little wacko.
And as far as interviewing people at the White House goes... What for? It was bizarre watching Axelrod and Emanual on two different shows on Sunday, both delivering exactly the same message in almost exactly the same words. You can get the same information from a press release. Why bother going through the motions of phone calls and setting these people up in a studio with a microphone? Fox does it, anyway, I suppose out of a sense of fairness.
But my God, the White House's Communications Corps is positively frightening. It's like something out of "1984." These people don't have any minds of their own, no original thoughts, no spontaneity, no souls. They're like a bunch of little cookie-cutter paper dolls. They drank the Kool-Aid.
Like, what was that movie? About the pods coming from outer space and taking over? "Day of the Triffids"* or something like that? Even the re-make of that movie -- or the first re-make, anyway, the one with Donald Sutherland -- was good. And the argument from the pod-people was the same as the argument from the White House: "Stop defending your humanity and individuality. Just give up and give in. You'll be much happier if you just stop thinking and let us control you."
Of "The Stepford Wives." The White House is like that.
The White House apparently stopped thinking a long, long time ago. They had campaigns to run. Almost a year after the election, and they're still campaigning. At least they found their niche, I suppose. Let's just put them in a big auditorium somewhere and let them campaign while the rest of us try to live real lives.
*Correction -- Not "Day of the Triffids," but "Invasion of the Body Snatchers." The Donald Sutherland re-make was on later in the day I wrote this, but I didn't know it was coming on. Watched it again for the first time in a few years. For a minute there, I thought it was a documentary about the 2008 presidential campaign.
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