When I was a kid, there were three video news outlets, and they all spouted pretty much the same old stuff, each packaged a bit differently and delivered by well-respected and overpaid talking heads. There may have been an agenda, but I was probably too young and ignorant to notice. But today, all we have is one-sided touts and totally blatant political agendas. Fox comes the closest to “fair and balanced”, but I’m not so naïve to ignore that network’s tilt rightward.
Today at the gym I was given a startling one hour eye-opening reminder of the powerful forces aligned behind the ruling Proglibocrat movement that is destroying America. I forced myself to watch 60 solid minutes of MSNBC, hoping to get a glimpse of the day’s leading news stories. What I saw was a 60 minute, uninterrupted infomercial for Hillary Clinton and her evil Proglibocrat legislator consorts. With nary a break, headlines scrolled across the bottom of the screen, highlighting in bold letters the “stories” the yet-to-shave male commentator/salesmen were touting. Examples included things like “GOP Lawmakers Backing off Trump Bandwagon”, and “Trump Holds Maine Rally Amidst Campaign Turmoil”, and “Allegations Swirl Around Melania”, and “Hillary’s Work with Children Feted at PA event”, and “Clinton Offers Massacre Tribute and Sympathy’, and “Will Trump Fall on Campaign Sword”.
Now I do not wish to tout the Republican candidate here (or maybe ever), but my goodness, what’s happened to the press ? If an innocent person just picked up information from CNN or MSNBC or the HuffingPuffing Post (on-line) or New York Times (print), what a lopsided and contorted view of the world of politics they would be indoctrinated to. WHAT THE HECK !