For decades I read numerous newspapers on a daily basis, watched the evening and late news religiously and basically dripped with information.
But I never grasped the basic picture until I started listening to Rush. Remember we were raised with Walter Cronkite “You Were There” and trusted him implicitly. MG the man reported on the death of Socrates.
Personally, I got caught up in major political events and found the reporting to be utterly false. This made me extremely skeptical of the media, a skepticism which has grown to a pathological hatred.
The thing which bothers me about the Tea Party is its undefined and seemingly unstructured organization. This appears to make it vulnerable to the type of fraudulent crap as happening in the recent Special Election in NY.
I think a lot of people fail to realize the information drought we were subjected to prior to the advent of “alternative media” making it’s debut. And thank goodness it did. Even if you dripped with info, like you said, it was still very limited. Just think, if it weren’t for the blogoshpere, Dan Rather would have had a scoop on W that would have gone unchallenged. It’s hard for a lot of younger people to phantom.
I know one of the keys to a free society is an unlimited free press. It is supposed to keep things in line. But not today, and maybe never has. They are, and perhaps have always been, the hand maidens of the elite. But today people question them. I hold them in very high disdain, along with academia.Both groups seek to infiltrate the mind instead of teaching and informing.
I think the Tea Party will find a more cohesive personality. Keep in mind, it is new. And I don’t care what anybody says...it is a spontaneous grass roots effort by people that do not normally have the time to “protest”. There will be missteps along the way. But I really think the Tea Party will be a force in future politics.
I’m going to show my ignorance and ask which special New York election you are referring to? The one to replace Hillary or the DeeDee WhatEverHerNameis election?