I must confess to enjoying this election cycle; wherein Democrats (a party whose platform is unabashedly liberal) have jettisoned the bothersome linearity of doing what one says in favor of saying what one does to a degree that makes the stiff segues to falsehoods by politicians past seem positively glacial. This distinction between theory and application seems, these days, to be minimal and without risk. Perhaps it saves them energy, not actually doing what they say. Very Green of them, very Kyoto-ish.
And yet, their promises hang on awkwardly out there in the Internet, in Google Caches of Shame, forever contradicting their (lack of) action. You would expect some embarrassment on their part; you would be wrong. Blagojevich and his hair is out there jogging with a smile (have you ever seen a jogger smiling?) and when confronted with a media question that actually isn’t rhetorical, Hillary goes into her I-see-into-the-back-of-your-skull look. And Reid, poor fellow, twists the English language into merely horrific shapes to explain himself.
Obama surely must be the ne plus ultra example here, a man reflecting back whatever the voter wishes to see, despite Obama’s record of…well, his record of…something.
It’s not like Republicans are exempt; they too have played their roles. It took the Democrats’ 2 trillion dollar bailout to finally eclipse the Good Ol’ Profligate Party’s spending record after 8 years.
Anyway, I suppose we have a media of sorts to point out such unkept promises – and when I say “of sorts,” I mean hardly at all. The media’s last election cycle performance frankly belonged in the Walletjes Red Light district of Amsterdam; but the tipping did help produce a White House occupant.
This approach by the media tends to leave a bit of a gap in reporting for, say, half the nation. Into this same gap has gone the film industry, matching the MSM in outlook. This outlook results in anti-American films like “Redacted,” “Rendition,” and “Lions for Lambs” that directly share the MSM view of America. It’s a free country (still), so go ahead and make your point of view in whatever media form you wish. But expect that other half of the nation to have their say economically and politically.
Today, you can pick your teeth with Time magazine, and as newspapers are finding out, it’s hard to build a Fourth Estate on Fifth columns.
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