I’ve sure you’ve turned on talk radio and heard several men whom I’m generalizing here.  They are 100% Republican (or "independant" Conservative) and demand you be if you are a ‘respectable’ person.  They saying nothing about actually going to local conventions, joining the party, doing political work, just to support Bush 100% and vote Republican no matter what.

Radio ads?  Nope, these masquerade as talk shows, though all they amount to be are hours of propaganda.  (with LARGE commercial breaks)  They do nothing really except spew hatred and divisiveness.  Overall, they seem to paint a picture that if you are ‘right wing’, ‘christian’, and ‘conservative’ you are a worthy person.  If you are an accursed ‘liberal’ you are some LIBERTINE (like DeSade) freak who’s communist, copulates with poodles and shoots heroin into your eye.

Listening to them is pure nausea.  Even IF they are right (i.e.  “leftist” thinkers are misguided, “right” thinkers are good) does anyone really WANT to be like them or live in a country they are in control of?  Scarily, a huge number of Americans listen to this crude propaganda.  When people work during the day, especially physical jobs or driving jobs, the radio is the sole source of entertainment that the boss doesn’t supress.  He might remove the free coffee by ‘budget cuts’ while the CEO at least acquires a new yacht and fills it with a mistress of every nationality, but he never touches the radio.  Choice guides the channel change.  Most ‘popular’ music is nauseating to people who grew up in even the 80’s, especially earlier.  The “oldies” station has the same PAYLIST of the same “top 100” bands every week, which gets boring after three days.  The only variety is to turn on the ‘talk radio’ where it is dominated by right wing blowhards.

I won’t go over all the stuff they do here, just touch on their most important point:  “The Media is Liberally Biased”.  By this, they mean that every source of news (except theirs, of course) is corrupted by “ultra PC leftist hippie freaks” and that they seek nothing less than the ruin of this country and the perversion of our children, oh think of the CHILDREN.  What’s even more bitterly funny is that they then accuse the ‘left’ of lying, quoting Goebbles “A lie repeated often enough becomes the truth”.  Who seems to be the expert on Nazism?

I disagree thouroughly that the media is ‘liberally biased’.  There is plenty of “Political Correctness” but that is only due to the “Corporate inlfuence”.  Corporations exist to make MONEY, which is the only responsibility they are held to.  Things with an ‘edge’ tend to offend people here and there, reducing the overall effectiveness of their mass market appeal.  Therefore, things are made blander to sell to more people.

Let’s then separate the assertion that the media biases towards a ‘leftist’ view.  Newspapers, talk radio outlets, and especially TV stations are owned by a handful of corporations.  Increasingly, the truth seems to be second to what works smoothly for making money and the union-busting, labor exporting, war for profit administration that works hand in hand with it.  IMHO, what little true “Left” that is in the mainstream media after decades of trying is being eroded away.

Been listening to that talk radio and going to dismiss me as some kind of ‘radical’?
Please read through this and ask these questions:

What else, what else?


Lengthy articles would be printed on corporate espionage and embezzling and how it hurts EVERYONE, while horrific ‘serial killer’/’kiddie killer’ stories would only make local news.  (Importance based on SOCIAL IMPACT, yes I dare say this)

Protests (pro/anti war) would be put in perspective.

Last, but not least, the newspapers would be full of encouragement and correspondance for helping people with community meetings, voting drives, education about government, both national and local and also fun facts such as “jury nullification” and it’s importance in our system of government.  In short, the ‘media’ would portray a wonderful world that, not without problems, stood to become a real utopia and that it was for each and everyone to contribute and to share.  Every time I check the news, I see portrayed a bitter, decaying world where it only pays to be silent and afraid

Believe it or not, I'm not trying neccesarily to make a "left" point here.  These demagoges are damaging, not because of their extreme views, but because they seem to try to get people polarised over terms like "left" or "Right".  This ignores that our country is a republic, where it starts with Democracy, but then lets small interests have their say so there is not a 51% tyranny.  When people don't participate in a republic (don't vote, don't stay informed) absurdities, like a 21% tryanny can develop, as they seem to have now.