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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush

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To: tonto who wrote (41867)8/26/2005 7:39:01 PM
From: paret  Read Replies (2) of 93284
 
Rotting Away
American Association of Independent Voters ^ | Aug 26, 2005 | Chris Shugart

The ongoing Cindy Sheehan media marathon is but the latest chapter in the continuing tragic-comedy known to some as “The Decline and Fall of the Mainstream Media.” So obsessed have they become in discrediting the Bush administration that they don’t even try to disguise their bias any more. Media rhetoric seems to have entered a new dimension of shameless propaganda that has completely abandoned all pretense of “news reporting.” And they carry on as if no one is noticing.

For three weeks (and still counting), the press has been singing in unison with the anti-war left with an incessant one note chorus of droning liberal angst about the war in Iraq. Even a casual observer would have to ask, why is Cindy Sheehan’s anti-war protest in Crawford Texas such big news? A more informed observer can tell you that the question practically answers itself: Cindy Sheehan is headline news because the mainstream media has decided that it should be headline news.

While many conservatives have been angered by the media’s brazen soliciting of the left wing’s anti-war agenda, it’s illustrative of where the media and their liberal allies currently find themselves on the political landscape. They’re nowhere. Unless you call knee-jerk opposition to anything endorsed by the Bush administration a viable political strategy. Liberals seem to think so.

The utter transparency of the media’s concurrent efforts to assist liberal Democrats reads like an Auto Club road atlas. It’s a clearly charted course that began in 2000 and hasn’t changed much since. Bush is still president, and liberals are still crying about it. Meanwhile the rest of us have to endure the tedious haranguing that the press still insists on calling “the news.” Incredibly, they seem oblivious to what they’ve become: a tiresome annoyance.

Watching the slow but gradual decomposing of the press establishment can sometimes take on the drama of watching a bowl of fruit decay. Monotonous from day to day, but inevitably leading to a rotten end nonetheless.
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