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I concur with the proposition that the ideologically-driven, politically corrupt media have manipulated the generally apathetic and politically ignorant voters but I part company with Mr. Cassell when he portrays Colin Powell as, in effect, being some sort of political Messiah that could have 'saved' America. I saw General Powell as a left-leaning populist, at best, and far from politically conservative. I simply do not share Mr. Cassells' enthusiasm for Colin Powell as a Republican presidential candidate, then or now. I doubt I'm alone.

Still, the media do sway public opinion and many a president has been elected with heavy media support. However, America is still a democracy and the presidency is still in the hands of the people. If they choose to remain uninformed and effectively mesmerized by some unprepared, undistinguished, achievement-free socialist phony like Senator Barack Hussein Obama, it is ultimately their own fault. Unfortunately, if Obama is elected president, we'll all have to live with the sad results of their egregious error.

Too bad John McCain is only a bit less unacceptable to most conservatives. Thanks, GOP. I'm voting for an Independent for president because my state always goes Democrat in the Electoral. My vote won't change that, so why vote for a candidate (McCain) that I don't really like or want and have to wearr an industrial-size clothespin on my nose in order to vote for him? Makes no sense. Cassells' disgust with and animus toward the media is both palpable and justified but we have only ourselves to blame if we allow them to manipulate us. Today, Americans do have alternative media, including this website, and there is simply no reason the 'mainstream' media should wield so much persuasive power in an election.

Frankly, Obama's barely-even poll numbers (with the lackluster McCain) are encouraging as they demonstrate that many would-be voters are unsure and hesitant about Obama, as they certainly should be. That's encouraging. The dinosaur media is steadily losing it's grip on popular opinion and while it hasn't completely dissipated yet, it is weakening. Let's hope that continues...right up to election day and that the endless Obama hype from the media backfires because Americans don't much like being told who to vote for. If they did, we would have never had Presidents Nixon, Reagan, G.H.W. Bush or the current Commander-in-Chief, George W. Bush. Think about it.