The problem is, Lancey, as I see it, anyway, Dan Rather and Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings and the rest of the network talking heads live in a bubble of security that they do not understand has burst.
The networks have for so long had a monopoly on the dissemination of the news that the emergence and recent dominance of the "new" media has not yet registered with them. Incredibly, they have failed to recognize that they are obsolete.
And maybe that is understandable.
For decades, Americans got their news after getting up from the dinner table and finding only three channels on their TVs, all spitting out the same news with the same liberal spin. The networks had a captive audience and there was no alternative to their news and no dissent; they were the only game in town. That same news was only regurgitated in the morning papers and the weekly news magazines. It's no wonder they all believed they were invincible - - they were invincible.
But now that world to which they were so accustomed has been brutally smashed to pieces by the "new" media - - talk radio, the internet, C-span, and 24-hour-cable news. It all came on them like a freight train and they don't know what to do. Their panic is palpable and the implosion at CBS is a perfect example of that hysterical panic.
It's all over for them except for the crying.
Good riddance to bad garbage.
I say we get John Edwards to represent us in a class action consumer action against CBS for fraud. I mean, he;s all about truth and justice, right?
And the extremely sad, even revolting outcome of their monopoly (thanks to the liberal breeding ground of the Columbia School of Broadcasting and colleges and universities in general) was the failure to win in Vietnam.
I never knew Walter Cronkite was a democrat, a liberal, a progressive as it were. Never even thought about such things.
Night after night I listened to him give the body bag count of Vietnam, and relate the horrors of the war, and the failure of our ability to fight it....I never knew until a FEW MONTHS AGO that we WON every single major offensive in Vietnam...that our precious troops, in the TET offensive had virtually WON that war at that time-with the Viet Cong losing over 50,000 fighters in a short few week period...
I DID NOT KNOW THIS BECAUSE THE MAJOR NETWORKS WERE BUSY BREAKING THE RESOLVE OF OUR NATION, CATERING TO THE ANTI_WAR FREAKS LIKE JOHN KERRY, AND LYING ABOUT OUR THE COURAGEOUS EFFORTS OF OUR TROOPS (whom they were dissing and dishonoring with every breath from their arrogant news speak.
MILLIONS DIED as a result of our giving up, they died in the killing fields of CAMOBODIA....and Lancey...the BOAT PEOPLE, oh my gosh, the fleeing from Vietnam at the end when we withdrew...the sadness....the DEATH!
Liberals stink.
And the major talking heads today are STILL TRYING to break our nation's resolve to win the war on terror, to STAY THE COURSE in IRAQ, to fund the war with the money required and to STAND BEHIND OUR PRESIDENT.
They want President Bush to be President 'Nixon'.
They believe in a peace that has everything cozy at home even as thousands, hundreds of thousands, and in Sudan, MILLIONS are slaughtered under the arm of tyrannical and mad leaders.
For me, that is not PEACE. If we cannot use this fabulous gift of freedom and spread this gift not only to help others receive this joyous and most important lifestyle, but to ENSURE a better, safer world in doing so...then WHAT ARE WE?
I DISPISE OUR MAINSTREAM PRESS, NOT BECAUSE THEY ARE DEMOCRATS, BUT BECAUSE THEY DO NOT LEAVE THEIR POLITICAL BELIEFS AT HOME WHEN THEY GO TO WORK.
Rant /OFF! LOL Promise-no more long, verbose rants (at least tonight! lol)