Posted on 01/18/2008 10:37:36 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo
Media Shouldn't Make Our Choices
Thursday, January 17 A letter writer complained recently about how Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich is being overlooked by the mainstream media. Mr. Kucinich is being snubbed, and not necessarily because of his leftward leaning. I was in Manchester, N.H. last week working with another candidate, Duncan Hunter, who is being similarly snubbed by the media, and saw quite a bit of Mr. Kucinich doing the best he could at radio row to get some of the media to listen to his stance. I did manage to listen in while Mr. Kucinich gave a very convincing interview on some of the problems with our health care industry, including insurance company fraud. I am sure that his impassioned plea went quite unnoticed on the news later.
I had been convinced that Mr. Hunter's campaign was being blacked out by the media, the same as Mr. Kucinich's, merely because their message was exactly what most conservatives and liberals want to hear. Clear, concise points and stances on all of the issues facing us. But coming away from the election circus in the Radisson Hotel, and spending some time in thought on the subject, I have come to believe that neither candidate fits into the "reality TV" genre that the mainstream media seem to love so much. The mainstream media is really interested in nothing more than a circus, one where the candidates bash each other, take pokes at each other, and generally do all they can to get some "emotional" response from the viewers. We all know who is bashing who each day, but do we really know exactly where each of the candidates actually stands and what each candidates exact solution is? The mainstream media's goal is to keep people tuning in and keep their ratings up, and hence, their ad money. The great disservice that it is performing on the American public, and the consequences it may reap, are sickening.
To think that people who have the power of information gathering and dissemination are only showing us what they want us to hear borders on the criminal.
Folks, I urge you to search the Internet and have a good look at all the candidates and then do your own research before making any choices. Please do not allow your choices to be determined by the "knuckleheaded news executives," as Mr. Hunter so aptly put it. They could not care less who gets elected, and care even less what you know about the candidates.
MARK BELCHER Great Barrington
Especially for undecided conservatives out there.
Our election system is becoming a Britney Spears/OJ Simpson tabloid joke.
I for one wanted to hear MUCH MORE about the major powderkeg of the world these days, the Korean Peninsula, and whether the Bush and Clinton approaches to North Korea have worked, or if they would continue under the next president. But nothing.
Dumbed down is what the MSM wants, and dumbed down is what they and America, are about to get!
A fraternal, "separated brethren" shout out to them this morning! Eagles Up.
Pinging the Korean FR lists, too. Sorry to drag you into it, but it may be interesting, for we are definitely having our very own “Chung vs. The Bad Lee vs. The Good Lee” MSM moment here in America.
Ping!
Sometimes when I see the candidates, I feel like I'm watching a bad late night Chuck Norris excercise equipment infomercial or something
There was a cartoon in the paper the other day with and at the top was “Choices”.
Then came the Republican choices.
At the bottom was a choice (with the box checked) labeled: Get teeth pulled.
Guess who’s name didn’t make the list?
I got an email with the new syndrome on it: it was called “electile dysfunction”. I fired off Duncan Hunter’s summary to everyone on the list and told them there was ONE person that you can chose without holding your nose.
DH-HD
To two of my favorite, long time Freepers this morning.
Seems I'm not the only one that compares the so-called elections to a circus.
You are on target. You are on target. This is a serious issue for our Republic’s future, I am convinced.
Thanks for posting this. B4DH.
Funny you would mention this, as I was just listening/watching to this great video.
Emotion is to many voters the reason for their vote.
http://www.gohunter08.com/inner.asp?z=21
Thompson/Hunter - that would give us 12-16 years of Conservative leadership in the WH - by then, the current Socialist Comrades will be irrelevant...
Oh, believe me, there will be plenty of “EMOTION” to go around in our country in the period of 2009 to 2013 for the American People, if either a Lib Dem Socialist or a RINO win. I for one see even more illegal alien invasion, and that will indeed end in “emotion” unfortunately.
Problem is (and this is a criticism of most of my fellow Americans, not of Congressman Hunter) but quite frankly Americans used to be able to understand this kind of discussion, this level of explanation. I remember this level of talk in the 1960s and 1970s, somewhat into the 1980s by President Reagan. Then, the country changed in ways we would not imagine. The so-called "dumbing down of the sheeple", mostly through the MSM, movies/TV, and academia.
In the America of today, this will go over 85% of the people's heads. It is sad, but it is true. I pray for our country. We are in deep trouble. It is if the whole nation has been intellectually morphined at a time of great national and international danger.
Duncan Hunter gets it.
You get it.
I get it.
Pissant gets it.
But the average American you meet does NOT get it, until something disastrous happens. Which will happen. It will be a suitcase nuke in one of our major cities.
Thank you for the video anyways. He is spot on! regarding North Korea and what we have to do urgently.
All I can do is what one man can do.
Nice to see you out this morning too AIT. It has been along time hasn’t it.
DUNCAN HUNTER BUMP!!
That’s pretty good advice for both sides in my opinion.
The news channels have basicly adopted the rapid clip pace of the movies these days, as if on steroids. Segments with individuals are almost comedically short. Talk radio gives some of the best exposures to candidates that there are.
FoxNews and the other outlets give candidates only a few minutes to field questions. You don’t get much out of it, and come away with the feeling that the news outlet merely wants to use a ten second clip later to show they had these folks on, and real information desimination is somewhere down around fifth on their goals.
An internet search is helpful, but the candidate’s sites have canned stuff that you really don’t know if it’s reality or memorex, oven baked.
Even with all this information, it’s sometimes tough to tell who is genuine and not. The one exception is John McCain. That guy must have a plug in the back of his head, the way he comes alive in television interviews, and it seems to me the DNC has the remote.
Back at you AIT. It would be nice if he could make a good showing later today.
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