The media is not helping in fact the media is making the situation worse.
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I cannot tell you how many times I yell at my tv whenever I see a reporter on tv just blurt out crap and never follow up with any explanation of fact.
Everything has to be balanced. If someone says boo! they have to balance it with boo hoo!! for the other side. I get what Limpballs, Hannity, Beck and the other loudmouths on radio and TV do but the MSM has a responsibility to call them out and not heat up the airwaves with crap that is not supported.
Just take a look at the Sunday morning talk shows with John King and the David Gregory. I stopped watching Sunday shows because it is just a red carpet pullout for repubs and they disingenuous crap.
Check what happened yesterday at Obama's townhall. He said that for an example of how Private and government work together check out UPS and Fedex and that these companies do better than PO. Then I wake up this morning to see reports on the MSM of how Obama made the PO upset.
Why is that important? Why did it need reporting on?
This morning you have Morning Meeting on MSNBC bringing on a crazy, incoherent loon from Specters meeting yesterday to say the President broke his oath of office. He could not even eununciate his words but yet he gets a platform. Then look at Chris Matthews bringing on the fool who was packing a gun yesterday at the President's townhall. He twitched and shuddered throughout the interview making up excuses for why he thought bringing a gun was ok.
How on earth can we expect the citizenry to be enlightened when everyday we are bombarded with crap like this. There is alot of ignorance in this country and the media is to blame for enabling it to grow and thrive.
See this article:
Governor Palin's Crazed Health Care Rant: Blame the Washington Post
As a basic rule, politicians will say anything they can get away with. If an effective politician thinks that he can call his opponent a drug-dealing, serial-murdering gangster, and have the charge taken seriously by the media, then he will do it, even if there is no reality whatsoever to the allegation. The reason that most politicians don't describe their opponents this way is because the media will denounce them as liars, who are unfit for responsible public office.
This basic truth must be kept in mind in understanding the health care debate. The debate has trailed off into loon tune land, and it's the media's fault.
The lunacy was most clearly in evidence in former Gov. Sarah Palin's claim that President Obama's plan would force her to stand in front of a "death panel" to argue for the life of her baby with Down Syndrome. This "death panel" is a complete invention by Governor Palin. There is no twist or turn or contorted permutation of President Obama's plan that would prevent Ms. Palin from providing as much health care as she wants to her baby...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Yesterday the media was all ginned up for a ruckus to break out at Obama's townhall when it did not they said he planted people in the hall.
The media does not want civility it wants rancor, dysfunction, instability and non-debate. This helps the ratings and makes them richer.
This is why I watch BBC.
Only Rachel Maddow, ED, and Keith O are telling it like it is. Rachel is really kicking ass and taking names and her reports should be shown all day on MSNBC.