I guess they figure now that it appears that the race is in the bag for their Messiah, they can tell it like it is.

How gratifying and admirable …— we have watched Obama and his machine get by with offering no substance about what he truly represents and , criticism being declared racist before it is out of the gate…the press complies…particularly ABC who is unashamedly working for his election.

We can all just declare it ‘unfortunate’, but I believe it is far more damaging to our country and deserves a blaring spotlight on who was complicit and why. This is REALLY the story of this campaign…including Obama’s lack of integrity in allowing it to happen.

This is undermining our entire culture and democracy….call me a racist, a right-wing whatever if you want, frankly I don’t care anymore. These labels are MEANT to end any in depth conversation. I find myself among many, many Americans who are questioning our basic institutions….newspapers, tv news, financial institutions, politicians journalists, school systems, religious institutions.

At a time when the financial world crisis is frightening all of us about our future, the last thing we needed was a press that blatantly undermines our Democratic process with news that biases the elections that will determine our very future.

Thank you Mr. Malone for your honesty…but where in hell have you been?

Personally, I’m filling my pockets with rock salt just in case I step in front of a bus; after reading this I’m pretty certain that the sidewalks in hell are at least a little icy.

Or maybe that’s just a great story that I was sold at the liberal university that I attended…. With the huge J-school….

Ahem.

OK. I’ve lived awash in bias so long that I’m holding out hope for a return to a brighter past that was virtually gone before I even tuned in. I’ll admit it. (I think I was 12 when Cronkite retired.)

Also, point well made about biased media throughout our history. Goodness, read the Federalist Papers if you want a glimpse at the vitriol that was slung at the Founders…by the Founders!

I’m still hoping for that little freebie broadcast on airwaves-Fox, and I promise to subscribe if you get the rightie rag published!

(OK, and college football. I do like the football. But that’s so few months of the year, and my boys aren’t always televised, anyway.)

But I digress.

My secret wish is that Rupert Murdoch will turn “Fox” (broadcast) into a cleaned-up, boiled down “Fox News” at certain hours. (Even just Hannity & Colmes…no Geraldo, no Greta, thank you. I can even do without the bold fresh piece of humanity.)

But until that happens, I, like you, will only tune in to the “big 3″ or to PravdaBS or NPravdaR for a glimpse at the whitewashing. (Or for must-see events like debates, conventions, and election night frustration.) Then it’s back online I go, so that my blood pressure doesn’t spike higher than Olbermann’s sarcasm.

(Oh, and one last, somewhat related thought. Couldn’t they have kept Sunday Night Football Olbermann-free? I mean, would that have been so hard? Didn’t someone know that I would react to that kind of like if Osama bin Laden was weighing in during pregame? Anyone ever heard of an Olbermann detector like a carbon monoxide detector…to keep what is invisible but toxic out of my home???)

Acording to McCullough’s John Adams, newspapers in the early days of the republic were just as biased and unprincipled as they are today, except there were some advocating for both sides. I have my doubts that a truly “down the middle” reportage would thrive (although it might survive) against rabid partisanship. Our society seems well attuned to adversarial relationships, from the sports fields to the courtrooms. the papers do need to at least be reasonable, however. That is no longer the case in the MSM.

Or I could be wrong.

The thought of something that is worth the ink it is printed with being as broadly distributed as the USA Today, though…that gave me pause, and a smile.

But would we have all those pretty graphics and dumbed-down articles, too?

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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press…

Now, try to figure out how to improve on a free press, even one as one-sided as ours. There really isn’t any way to do so, as long as it is possible for “anybody” (rich enough) to publish a paper or buy a radio station or TV airtime.

Nonetheless, with great power comes great responsibility, and the US press has failed its responsibilities miserably. The amendment mentions “freedom… of the press,” but it says nothing about an honest press, and there is the rub.

So I call upon the richest and bravest among us on the right to establish a major newspaper with a Conservative bias, and I challenge the rest of us to buy the da– thing. If Nueharth can do it with USA Today, shouldn’t he have some competition?

The NYT is going broke. Surely there is one Conservative who has enough money to step in and take it over. Even the Wall Street Journal has leftists producing the news articles–Ruppert Murdoch, DO something about that, and you will have a newspaper worth reading that will challenge USA Today for circulation and profit.

Fox News is far from good, either. As someone above pointed out, they don’t initiate any of those investigative forays into the Democrat World either. They just report the hypocrisy on the part of the others.

They ALL fail because they no longer report facts or the news they’ve dug up, they simply report what Dem’s and Pub’s are saying about each other. Even my local rag has run some articles trying to identify truth and fiction in local political ads. And those articles are almost as biased as the ads themselves. They just can’t help themselves as they put positive spin on Dem ads and negative spin on Pub ads.

Recall that the same agencies have rated other useless debt as Triple or Double A so to be rated as junk by these same agencies means the NY Times bonds are worth less than used toilet paper.

Last night, Matthews made a huge deal about “Is Ted Stevens’ corruption trial going to hurt Republicans?” I was screaming at the TV. At least we let Republicans come to trial!!!! No respectable Republican supports what Stevens did!!!! The Democrats still have what’s his face from LA sitting there with no censure and virtually no news coverage. His butt’s probably frozen from the frozen cash he’s got in his wallet.

Fox news is a little better, but they seem to do a lot of celebrity news and they follow other coverage, just less biased. They don’t seem to start news stories, where are the legions of reporters making a comprehensive story line of Obama’s life.

Last night, Matthews made a huge deal about “Is Ted Stevens’ corruption trial going to hurt Republicans?” I was screaming at the TV. At least we let Republicans come to trial!!!! No respectable Republican supports what Stevens did!!!! The Democrats still have what’s his face from LA sitting there with no censure and virtually no news coverage. His butt’s probably frozen from the frozen cash he’s got in his wallet.

Fox news is a little better, but they seem to do a lot of celebrity news and they follow other coverage, just less biased. They don’t seem to start news stories, where are the legions of reporters making a comprehensive story line of Obama’s life.