I second your motion! :)
When I sat down to take a breather today, the television was on NBC, probably because I had been listening to the Olympics coverage earlier in the day as I was preparing lunch. I wasn’t fast enough (must be losing my quick reflexes in my 'old age' :) to hit the off button before Brian Williams squeezed in his obligatory two cents worth of leftist propaganda news intro. It seems that the top story today on NBC (and no doubt ABC, CBS, MSNBC, and CNN) was Cheney's hunting accident and the President's cover-up.
Williams began his harangue with the arrogant and incensed question, 'What did the President know, and when did he know it? Why was the shooting hushed up until the day after it happened?' (I'm not quoting him verbatim, but pretty darn close.)
Even though I am excruciatingly aware of the major networks' long-time leftist agenda, I still stood there in disbelief. It would appear that they are intent on sinking to new lows daily.
A countless number of other genuinely newsworthy events could have been the headline story today, were it not for the fact that leftist politicians, and all of their cohorts in the media, are incessantly searching for 'evidence' that the Bush administration is corrupt. And on days when no such evidence is forthcoming, they seek to magnify offenses as minor as jaywalking, in the hope that, if they pile up a sufficient number of jaywalking offenses, the American electorate will decide that this administration, and republicans in general, are corrupt. It’s like the American democrat party's version of Chinese water torture, if not history's most blatant example of the pot calling the kettle black.
Apparently, an unfortunate hunting accident, and the fact that the administration chose not to inform the self-righteous press immediately, represents just one more 'offense' that they feel obliged to add to the corruption list.
It’s interesting that the fact that a former American Vice President stood on Saudi Arabian soil today and accused the American government of committing 'terrible abuses' against Arabs, by indiscriminately rounding them up and holding them in deplorable conditions.
Over the past few years … for the first time in American history … two former Presidents and a former Vice President have found it necessary to brutally criticize America's current government. And not only do they do so on our own soil, but they choose to travel to enemy soil and and hurl vicious accusations at America's leadership.
All such accusers are democrats. And all such accusers are criticizing policies and behaviors that they would be applauding, if those policies and behaviors had been authored and enacted by leaders of their own party.
The democrats' thirst for elitist power now clearly far exceeds their sense of political decency and their commitment to preserving America's sovereignty and security (part of the Constitutional definition of treason includes adhering to our enemies, giving them aid or comfort).
The madmen of our era who cloak themselves in the mantle of a violent 'religion,' combined with the insatiable lust for power on the part of much of the past and present leftist ruling elite of America, may well make the elections of 2006 and 2008 watershed events that will lay the groundwork for either the demise of the democrat party or the demise of the republic.
Which of the two falls will depend upon (1) how genuinely informed the American electorate is, and/or (2) how well-oiled the voter fraud machines in the big cities are.
But none of this is deserving of headline news status. After all, the Vice President accidentally shot a hunting companion, who will recover completely. Finding out when the President was told, and why he did not immediately call major news outlets, is far more deserving of the attention of the electorate than the fact that major American leaders (among them, two ex-Presidents, and one ex-Vice President, whose counterfeit allegiance to this republic ended when they left office, if not earlier) are regularly committing treason on enemy soil, during a time when that enemy openly and violently threatens the very existence of their homeland and their countrymen.
~ joanie ....