"Your job, as journalists, is to tell the truth. That's what you claim you do, when you accept people's money to buy or subscribe to your paper.
But right now, you are consenting to or actively promoting a big fat lie -- that the housing crisis should somehow be blamed on Bush, McCain, and the Republicans. You have trained the American people to blame everything bad -- even bad weather -- on Bush, and they are responding as you have taught them to.
If you had any personal honor, each reporter and editor would be insisting on telling the truth -- even if it hurts the election chances of your favorite candidate.
Because that's what honorable people do. Honest people tell the truth even when they don't like the probable consequences. That's what honesty means. That's how trust is earned.
Barack Obama is just another politician, and not a very wise one. He has revealed his ignorance and naivete time after time -- and you have swept it under the rug, treated it as nothing.
Meanwhile, you have participated in the borking of Sarah Palin, reporting savage attacks on her for the pregnancy of her unmarried daughter -- while you ignored the story of John Edwards's own adultery for many months."
Obama scares me. He really does. And the fact that people will go so out of their way to get this man into office scares me more. People's credit cards are being charged without their consent for thousands of dollars for OBAMA FOR AMERICA. Lies are being told and fostered by those who we are supposed to be able to trust to get to the heart of the matter. Poor Joe the plumber is being torn apart because he asked Obama a tough question. Because Obama said what he did, the "spread the wealth" comment, Joe is being ripped apart. I just don't understand how people are so quick to accept that Obama will not continue to be the man that he's been in the past. He wouldn't have gotten as far as he has in this race if he kept his old associations, but can you really believe that Rev. Wright was a Amecia-lovin' holy man for the last 25 years and all of a sudden has these awful things to say when Obama gets the nomination? If that was the case, you would think that more people would have left that church besides Obama, but it seems that others were well aware of Rev. Wright's positions.
Obama wants to look to the past to discredit McCain, but he gets affronted when anyone uses his past against him. Just makes you think, what's he hiding? Well, not much, it's just that people choose to not see what's in front of them.
I promise I am really trying to keep politics out of this blog, but it's hard. This is a big election, and either way we go, it's going to have a huge impact on our futures. I can only hope that if Obama gets elected, that I am wrong about him.
I promise the next post will be MUCH more exciting.
4 comments:
When shall we expect your next post ;)
no worries, I've liked McCain since the primaries against Bush... I feel like God will have a lot to do with this election, and I'm frankly not too worried :)
I have to play the Devil's Advocate in this (I haven't fully made up my mind yet, btw) by giving you this link:
[ http://www.complex.com/blogs/2008/10/14/the-most-racist-moments-of-the-2008-presidential-race/13/ ] ...
and say of all the bad things said about Palin and her family, there's been an enormous amount more about Obama - being an Arab, a terrorist, Muslim, being sworn into congress on the Koran, being a communist... all of which are untrue.
But again, there's been a lot of bad on both sides. And it's despicable what elections have turned into. But I agree with the sister and say I'm not too worried either. =)
sorry for the long comment. I live in Madison now so I've got to get politically riled up. =)
are you mad at the bias of the media, or Obama?
and, don't let anybody fool you- the blame for our economy is spread faaaar and wiiiiide- not to one particular person or political party. it's not nearly that easy.
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