Party start?
Well, I have my recollection of how it started (you may have a
different
recollection, but I don't care <grin>).
As I recall, Hillary Clinton was so far ahead in the polls in the
beginning that even the obnoxious media moderators noticed she never
attacked any of her Democratic rivals but focused, instead, on
attacking
Bush and the Bush gang.
In fact, all of the Democratic candidates persistently said any one
of
them would be a better president than any one of the Republican
candidates.
That sort of camaraderie drove the obnoxious debate moderators
nuts ...
they wanted a fight ... fighting is more "entertaining" than agreeing
is
-- and much more profitable to the media tycoons because the
candidates
would be forced to buy gobs of air time for their ads, and that would
drive up the media's profits.
As the very old saying goes: Follow the money.
So, the moderators (especially the odious Tim Russert, or anyone from
MSNBC or NBC) egged on the Democratic candidates to fight with and
attack one another. They seemed to even question Obama's manhood if
he
wouldn't hit Hillary with a gut-punch. The media people wanted a
Democratic Party brawl, and that is what they got.
I noticed the moderators never egged on the Republicans to attack the
front-runner (whoever it was -- Giuliani, in the early days,
remember?),
but in every Democratic debate it seemed to be the main goal of the
moderators to start fights among the Democrats.
I truly do not blame Hillary and Obama as much as I do the media
(which,
we need to remember, is controlled by Republicans with loyalty to the
Republican Party).
Keep that -- the money and media profits -- in mind next time you see
some media nitwit ranting on about Hillary. "Thar's gold in them thar
hills."
When I wrote, recently, to one New York Times columnist to complain
that
she was unethically using her Times column to vent her personal
hatred
for Hillary and Bill Clinton, she wrote back to me: "It's business."
Yes, it certainly is.
Nasty but profitable business.
I just read a column in which the writer commented that the Beltway
press corps is a national embarrassment.. Reporters and columnists
have
been given freedom of the press -- in our First Amendment -- so the
truth about our government would be publicized. Instead, they give us
the salacious ... the invented ... the myths ... the media "novels"
passing as news.
And all the idiot reporters and political columnists -- acting like
the
lemmings or other pack animals they are -- would follow the pack
right
off the cliff's edge rather than express any opinion other than the
group's "accepted" opinion. Having one's own opinion or doing one's
own
research or even expressing an opinion that the Beltway crowd has
decided against is unacceptable within this clubby group.
If there is a more vomit-inducing three minutes of videotape than the
one showing the entire Washington press corps laughing their heads
off
as GWBush pretended to be looking for the not-yet-located Iraqi
weapons
of mass destruction that so many thousands have died in the Iraq war
for, I don't know what they would be. The Washington press corps
howled
with laughter at The Dimwit Boy King, whom they had helped in his
grab
for extreme power, while he (Bush) made a joke out of the fact that
there were NO WMDs in Iraq -- even though tens of thousands of people
had died or been maimed for life in a war over those phantom weapons.
Truth-telling is the lowest item on the media people's list of
priorities (well, maybe human decency is at the very bottom of their
list) ... fame comes first ... and money second.
All else is a bother to these over-stuffed, overpaid, overpraised,
over-Botoxed, over-hairdyed, over-protected media whores ("working
girls" are far more honest about their products or services than
these
media pigs are).
Follow the money with the American media.
Most of them are, indeed, a national embarrassment.
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