Does it strike you as odd that according to the mainstream media (some of us use the term lamestream media) all or at least most republicans/conservatives are less than bright. Let's review, Ronald Reagan wasn't smart, Dan Quayle was downright stupid, President George W. Bush was dumb, the list goes on. Now Sarah Palin is a mental lightweight. At the same time President Obama subjects us to verbal gaffe after verbal gaffe and somehow he is intellectually brilliant. Then there was President Clinton who could lie even under oath and yet the media respects his words of wisdom. Vice-president Biden is so wildly inaccurate that even the mentally challenged Sarah Palin wiped the floor with him in the debates and yet he is interviewed by the pundits as though you could take anything he says seriously.
Shouldn't we expect some balance, if impartiality is too much to expect, from our news media. Isn't that why newspapers have an editorial section for opinion and a news sections for news? The newsmedia has lost so much credibility that many people go to a comic, Jon Stewart, or Rush Limbaugh, a commentator?, trying to glean a bit of news from among all the silliness, ranting and raving. Then we have the interview extremes of gotcha questions (i.e. Katie Couric) or fawning questions (Barbara Walters) neither of which help one understand either the issues or the person being interviewed.
I feel as if I'm in an alternative universe -- beam me up Scotty, there is no intelligent life down here. If you want more on this subject there are several good books, however, Lewis Carroll in "Through the Looking Glass" or "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" would probably be as useful.
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