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I'm showing my age here a little -- but the Superman TV series, the original one back in the 50's always opened with Superman standing there looking strong while the announcer proclaimed he stood for "Truth, Justice and the American Way."

It all seems so clear to me, why would anyone in the media have any other agenda.

If these media representatives were deep moles, planted by communist handlers, intent on our absolute destruction, I don't think they could do any more harm than they are doing today to our culture, our nation, our country.

It just sickens me through and through.

And, alarmingly, our government is just as bad.

9-11 should've never happened -- and no one has been held accountable.

And now we have amnesty, FTAA, CFR, Patriot Acts, unrestrained growth of the federal bureaucracy, immoral taxation, etc., etc. -- and we seem powerless to correct the course. The tide is too strong to overcome.

>> I'm showing my age here a little

You are not showing your age at all. I contend that the press has always been liberal. Take my namesake for instance ... during WWII the press was all over Patton for number of things, which today would be called politically incorrect. Andy Rooney of CBS’s sixty minutes is one of the last remaining WWII war correspondents that are still on the air - and he was a flaming liberal and biased during WWII, just as he is today. Think about how all of FDR's programs were sold to the American public during the 1930's. Now that was long before what I can remember, but I had family that thought FDR was a left-wing wacko. At the time, FDR was. But compared to the Republican Party today, FDR was a right-wing wacko. The fact remained that the press of that day conveyed FDR's message to the public with a liberal slant.

I think it often boils down that there is a spectrum of personality types. There are people who think, and there are people who feel, or some combination in between. Personally, I think I feel about the correct things in life. (intentionally awkward sentence) Liberals feel more than they think. Take a look at the underlying theme of most political issues today. The theme is something that will help the poor, the crippled, the elderly, or the children. Here's an example, however a little complex. Bush was in Central PA today talking about jobs and no child left-behind at a local high school. The education bit is an issue Bush co-opted from the Democrats. The reporting on this was rather negative. If a Democrat was to give the same speech that Bush gave today, he would be carried out on the shoulders of the media. Here's the rub: a feeling type of speech is incongruous with what the press thinks of a republican. Ergo, Bush must not be honest. That’s a feeling sort of thing, and it comes out in their stories. But look at what Bush has said in the past about education, and look at what Bush has done about education. He is consistent with what he says and does, but he is inconsistent with Goldwater republicans, like me, that would be perfectly content in shutting down the Education Department. When you do have a Goldwater republican talk about education, the press feels that he dispassionate. How can anyone want to deny children education by cutting federal spending on education? That evokes emotion, and once the emotion is out, all thinking shuts down. The thought that people would have to run less money through a Washington bureaucracy instead of keeping their money local, and having more money for the education of children never enters the mind of press, since it was blocked by feeling.

So perhaps, it just boils down to the press feels more than it thinks. Take note, when they do think they are usually wrong. Now that is a dangerous combination.