Posted on 07/19/2008 1:19:04 PM PDT by johnwcassell
I read today that Sen. Phil Gramm [R-Tex] resigned under pressure from the McCain campaign because the media was having a field day over his comment that America "had become a nation of whiners".
Once again we have allowed these charlatans of television news and print media to dictate what goes and what doesn't go in a presidential campaign.
I mean it was bad enough that we let them saddle us with two of the three worst candidates in history [hillary clinton was terrible too]. A decent man or woman wouldn't dare subject himself and his family to the type of smears anyone trying to run this country must put up with. Thomas Eagleton was trashed because he had once been hospitalized for a mental breakdown. Gary Hart because he couldn't keep his zipper up. Rudolf Guliani took it in the shorts because he had family friction and as for my favorite...the one man who could really lead this country...Colin Powell....we all know what was waiting for him from these evil scandal mongers...after all he grew up poor and Black on the streets of New York.
Without you media swine we would be looking forward to Colin Powell as our President.
None of the above smears have anything to do with the price of onions. They are utterly irrelevant to the issue of who can govern this country in its hour of need.
Maybe after eight years of obama those of us who are left will finally rise up and pull the plug on these evil "opinion-molders". For the very first time we are actually going to have an incompetent in the White House...possibly even an evil incompetent.
The media charlatans who regularly come into our living rooms disguised as newscasters should be held personally responsible for running these constant scams on the American people, substituting trash and glitz for needed public debate. Keeping the Mob excited...keeping them upset and hostile.
MARK MY WORDS.... whether obama wins or loses there will be days of bloody riots across this country as his Hate Hooligans either show Whitey whose now Boss or protest yet another act of Whitey's discrimination.
How did we lose these potentially good citizens? Why did Bill Cosby have to sadly note "whatever happened to Black is Beautiful"? I ask whatever happened to the cooperation and camaraderie we had in the days we campaigned for civil rights?
I'll tell you: the media just couldn't let go. Racial hatred sells. You sell racial hatred you get lots of air exposure. Looting, death destruction and hate....the media loves it...they thrive on it. Obama's spiritual mentor has for many years ended his sermons with "GOD DAMN AMERICA". One can just hear obama and his charmer of a wife saying "AAAAAAAAAAMEN!"
Thank you, media. You've fixed it so we have at least four years of misery and violence for our People to bear coming up.
I accuse you....
President Roosevelt told us "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself".
You traffic in fear...and you should pay....
John W. Cassell
John W. Cassell is the author of seven novels on life during the American Cultural Revolution of the Late Sixties/Early Seventies including Soldier of Aquarius: 1969-1970 . His novel Crossroads: 1969 is being featured in this year's publication of the Arts on the Underground Foundation entitled "Piccadilly Land", now slated for release in London next month. Since retirement in 2006 he has published several editorials in Israel National News and is a frequent contributor to the Amazon Connect Blog.
We are a nation of whiners. I don’t care what Barrack Hussein and his media minions say.
It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.
Reason obeys itself; ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.- Thomas Paine
I agree 100%. That's why Capitol Hill would be more appropriately named, The National Landfill.
If moderate/liberal Colin Powell, who had trouble deciding if he was a Democrat or Republican, is Cassell’s choice for president, then he’s 180 degrees from me.
McCain has thrown so many under his bus that he will soon start throwing the Democrats under it. That is his secret plan to win.
We can only hope that mccain picks a VP who has some spunk and a couple between his legs who will duke it out — he sure as h... wont — we are in trouble
He’s half right, except no candidate running this time around was or is worthy of th office. It’s not just the media’s fault, you can blame the waashington elitees running our parties. They wallow in mediocrity and force the rest of us to share in it.
I guess we’re 180 degrees apart...but President Eisenhower had the same decision to make...and he is my hero.
When are “we” going to fight back?
Wrong.
When is John McCain going to fight back?
When is John McCain going to stand up for the Conservatives who have swallowed their pride and their principles in order to support him?
I haven't. Nor will I.
well I agree with that, but the responsibility falls on all of us. In my lifetime I’ve seen this country TRASHED...it hurts.
I think there is a difference between whining and just being pissed off. I won’t whine, but I’m voting.
While I agree that the media drives a lot of crap and that McCain should have stood up to them, I have to give a big PUKE for having Colin Powell, socialist extraordinare, as a presidential candidate. He is just about as far left as McCain is, maybe more so. Lots of people we could have had but I don't want Colin Powell for candidate, thanks anyway.
I’m voting, just not for McCain.
What is the "we" business? Juan McCain is CEO, Admiral, head honcho, and head monarch of his campaign. Juan AIN'T taking orders from anyone. Gramm left because Juan wanted that way. In fact, on Gramm's way out the door, Juan was heard to bellow, "Advisors, advisors, I don't need no stinkin' advisors."
I sign someone up to replace your vote. Take your ball and stay home.
I have millions of counterparts who agree with me. Will you counter all their votes? I think not.
If you had that many your candidate would have won the primary.
Replace my vote too would ya?
Exactly!
I already replaced yours. Pedro has it covered.
And at least four extended family members too.
Not a problem.
Still, the media do sway public opinion and many a president has been elected with heavy media support. However, America is still a democracy and the presidency is still in the hands of the people. If they choose to remain uninformed and effectively mesmerized by some unprepared, undistinguished, achievement-free socialist phony like Senator Barack Hussein Obama, it is ultimately their own fault. Unfortunately, if Obama is elected president, we'll all have to live with the sad results of their egregious error.
Too bad John McCain is only a bit less unacceptable to most conservatives. Thanks, GOP. I'm voting for an Independent for president because my state always goes Democrat in the Electoral. My vote won't change that, so why vote for a candidate (McCain) that I don't really like or want and have to wearr an industrial-size clothespin on my nose in order to vote for him? Makes no sense. Cassells' disgust with and animus toward the media is both palpable and justified but we have only ourselves to blame if we allow them to manipulate us. Today, Americans do have alternative media, including this website, and there is simply no reason the 'mainstream' media should wield so much persuasive power in an election.
Frankly, Obama's barely-even poll numbers (with the lackluster McCain) are encouraging as they demonstrate that many would-be voters are unsure and hesitant about Obama, as they certainly should be. That's encouraging. The dinosaur media is steadily losing it's grip on popular opinion and while it hasn't completely dissipated yet, it is weakening. Let's hope that continues...right up to election day and that the endless Obama hype from the media backfires because Americans don't much like being told who to vote for. If they did, we would have never had Presidents Nixon, Reagan, G.H.W. Bush or the current Commander-in-Chief, George W. Bush. Think about it.
The problem is that we have a populace steadily de-evolving into an idiocracy. They cannot recognize anything short of the previous 24 hours info cycle.
I KNOW THE ANSWER!!
Never.
We demand Juan name conservatives with proven credentials to top positions in his campaign, who are privy to all his campaign strategies.
Juan must lose Hernandez, the Azatlan sucker attached to his campaign.
Juan MUST denounce Reconquista in all print and brodcast media venues NOW.
McCain must denounce La Raza and announce he will STOP all tax-funding of this demented organization.
Even more criical is losing his handlers---the pukeneos who are the cheerleaders for amnesty.
Juan must denounce Mexican demands that the US Attorney suspend deportations of marauding Mexican criminals on US soil.
Juan MUST repudiate foreign governments interferring in American justice that presages the Third World they are building on US soil.
Then we'll talk.
The majority of people that I talk to, regardless of Party, don’t like either of the candidates. Tragically, America and our future will be the losers.
Great comment Jim...I especially concur with your last paragraph. thanks for taking the time. JWC
The only people we have to blame are ourselves for this mess.
WE turned up our noses and pulled the levers for these people, instead of rejecting them from the beginning.
Now, we all will suffer with the lessor of two evils.
I am sick and tired of reading posts to this board blaming everyone else for our party's condition, corruption, etc. I am angered by the ones who have squawked all along to vote for the republican, even if he is a weak candidate.
Now we complain because there are a bunch of RINO’s in the party...WHO ELECTED THEM!
WELL we have gotten what WE elected to receive.
I am tired of people telling me to swallow my pride and my principals for the good of the party! There is no “good of the party” comrades.
It is the Right of the People to form or dissolve this government of the United States. But before we can do anything we must learn WE are the ones who created its’ present form. WE are responsible for the results.
McCain had won before many states even voted, including my own. Go research, McCain came nowhere near getting a majority of GOP votes. He won’t get a majority in November, either.
GWB benefitted from 4 million+ GOP votes delivered by the Religious Right. McCain will not receive that benefit.
So is that what they’re whining about.
“Racial hatred sells. You sell racial hatred you get lots of air exposure.”
Indeed.
” We demand Juan name conservatives with proven credentials to top positions in his campaign, who are privy to all his campaign strategies.
Juan must lose Hernandez, the Azatlan sucker attached to his campaign.
Juan MUST denounce Reconquista in all print and brodcast media venues NOW.
McCain must denounce La Raza and announce he will STOP all tax-funding of this demented organization.
Even more criical is losing his handlers-—the pukeneos who are the cheerleaders for amnesty.
Juan must denounce Mexican demands that the US Attorney suspend deportations of marauding Mexican criminals on US soil.
Juan MUST repudiate foreign governments interferring in American justice that presages the Third World they are building on US soil.
Then we’ll talk. “
Be sure to ping me when hell freezes over, M’kay?
You best get crackin’. You can also replace my vote, my husbands, and the votes of my parents...along with many of their church friends.
fetch one for me too.
Gotcha covered. Should have next week free if that’s all of you.
He will. McCain / Clinton 08
Wait and see.
What, are you going to meet with the Hillary old liberal girls? *snort*
All that care to speak about it after all this, probably.
Taking the weekend off
“What’s in it for me” has become the mantra. Our “esteemed” politicians appease the population with more government giveaways - not exactly bread and circuses, but it’s the same principle.
you are so right, Brother.
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