I haven’t posted anything here lately, even though I still check the site on a daily basis.
To say that I do not depend on the MSM to get the news, except for Keith and Rachel, is an understatement.
However, when I read Frank Rich’s article, and I like his editorials (most of the time), the last one, he wrote it like a pundit. And I wonder, about the chutzpah of all these people making noise; insultingly comparing President Obama to that ignorant, inept clown better known as Former President Bush.
Where were the noise makers, say last year or for that matter the last eight years? Are these people (MSM in particular), wallowing in guilt and a false sense of responsibility, that they are overcompensating in order to assuage their own sense of culpability?
How dare, in their ineptitude, they compare our President with the corrupted governance of the Bush administration?
Instead of criticizing the minutiae of every action our President and his administration takes, in order to correct the mistakes of the past eight years, why don’t they try constructive criticism and actual reporting of the facts? That is, if they even have all the facts (snark).
This is not to say that mistakes are not going to be made, or a path taken may need to be backtracked, or a new course of action may need to be followed. The sheer magnitude of all the problems facing Our Country is overwhelming. I am cognizant of what a tremendous task is being undertaken by President Obama and his administration, in trying to steer us out of the abyss. I am also very grateful.
Now, I am not suggesting that news, opinions, and editorials shouldn’t be reported and written, they should. What I am saying is that they should have accuracy and respect in their reporting.
As quoted from Thomas Jefferson - Politics and Government:
"A press that is free to investigate and criticize the government is absolutely essential in a nation that practices self-government and is therefore dependent on an educated and enlightened citizenry. On the other hand, newspapers to often take advantage of their freedom and publish lies and scurrilous gossip that could only deceive and mislead the people."
A comment on the above quote:
"Jefferson himself suffered greatly under the latter kind of press during his presidency. But he was a great believer in the ultimate triumph of truth in the free marketplace of ideas, and looked to that for his final vindication."