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We Own the Truth

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I want to be clear to everyone: questioning policies of our government is not being disloyal to that government. It is exercizing exactly what our founders desired but had to separate from England to establish: the right to free speech. We often interpret that to mean, well, everything, but the founders were considering the tyranny and oppresion of their government, so the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights to the constitution is the most important and those today questioning others patriotism based on questioning actions taken or not taken by our government is a discredit to those that wrote those famous words placed on paper in 1789.

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Saving Face

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As I write this, the ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran that was supposed to end tomorrow, has just been extended by our president, indefinitely because Pakistan, the host for the negotiations, asked for an extension. That’s right, there’s no time limit associated with it and the excuse is that Iran has not made any proposals of their own and the U.S.will give them time to(47 more years, I guess) come up with a response to the U.S. proposals over the kinetic action (not a war) with Iran. This is what’s called saving face.

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The Kettle Calling the Pot

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I’ve been seeing the word grift used a lot lately, online and in the media. Like most things that rise out of nowhere, it looks as if either people don’t know what the word means or they just found a way to insult those they dislike without showing any proof of what they say. For some, I’d easily place them in the first category because, well, some people are just stupid and go along to get along, therefore will bark anything they’re told to bark. The others are the ones that lead the stupid, except in this case, it’s the stupid, leading the stupid. I don’t want to insult morons, but…

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Don’t Do It, NewsNation!

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I was surprised to see recently that disgraced TV host Chris Cuomo had signed on with the newly (last year or so ) established NewsNation news channel (formerly WGN, Chicago). I sat awed at the commercial with Chris speaking directly into the camera promising potential that he’s going to try to be fair. Really? This guy has been a rabid democrat all of his professional career if not for his entire life and yes, people know this to be a fact. Hiding his preferences in some political news story is going to be like a leopard changing it’s spots. Who’s next,. Brian Stelter? I watch NewNation some and I think overall it’s pretty well balanced in its news coverage – not perfect but good nonetheless and hiring Chris Cuomo will do nothing to advance that perception with anyone. If anything, it will do just the opposite.

This Story Reminds Me of Another

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Does anyone recall where they were say in the spring/summer of 2001? Maybe more specifically: May until early September of tht year? If so, do you remember the number one story of those m onths. It was the story that has cable news fixated. I couldn’t turn on my television to either MSNBC or Fox New (the 2 I regularly watched back then) without this one story being on or was ”next up”. It got to the point for me where I mostly stopped watching either of those channels and ytirdf to only watch local news at that time. But that story invaded evn local news, you know, that 22 minute show that covers mostly local or regional news. But there it was. II never paid attention to TV ratings back then but today I would have to guess that story was preeminent because it attracted th most viewers ad of cours, more viewers means more advertising money for the outlet.

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