Propaganda in America: The 2008 Presidential Campaign

It seems that journalists these days are no longer concerned with presenting the news as news, but are seduced by all the ratings and flash that sensationalism can give them. Gone are the days of the great reporters … the Cronkites, the Jennings, and the Brokaws. Today’s the new day of commentaries and commentators who put their own two cents into what should be unbiased, hardnosed reportage of political views and viewpoints. And as a result we, as a nation, are being deprived of making up our own minds about issues that critically affect us as a whole. We have been raped by pollsters, politicians, and pathetic reporters who undermine our intelligence as a nation and who treat us like lap dogs, feeding us tidbits of news they choose for us with the flavorings that they select.

From the pussyfooted questions debate hosts presented to the Democratic rival, Barrack Obama, to the lack of equal coverage of the Clinton and McCain campaigns, it is blatantly obvious that the reporters on most, if not all, television channels have projected their own version of propaganda for Obama in his run for presidency. When Clinton that said she ran from the plane during her trip to the war zone, the media blasted the inconsistencies across the airwaves as though she were caught in the most heinous of lies. Yet, the same media downplayed the “Not God Bless America, God damned America” speech of Obama’s beloved pastor. What a bunch of manipulators!

The 2008 campaign has been riddled by the twisted versions of our less then professional “journalists.” At the very least, a journalist’s job is to inform the public in an unbiased fashion about the stories going on around them. They failed us miserably. Worse, though, they take us for being ignorant fools who cannot, or should not, control our own very opinions and thoughts. They put themselves in charge of our minds. If we accept and applaud their treatment of this campaign so far, then perhaps we are the ignorant fools they think we are and we do, indeed, need someone to think for us.

Once Obama’s pastor vomited his words of hate against America, whites, and Israel, Obama quickly tried to argue that because he attended this Church he didn’t really believe in what his pastor was saying. It stands to reason, however, that anyone who attends a Church regularly, baptizes his kids in its Order, and embraces the venomous orator, that he surely follows the beliefs being professed. What kind of an intelligent person would sit still without objecting or completely leaving the Order under such circumstances? Anyone who is not intelligent enough to know the difference of when to stay and when to leave when such hatred is bring preached is of questionable presidential quality. Yet, the media spent a speck of time on this enormous blunder that both Obama and his pastor have dramatized in our presence, then moved rapidly on to downplay the enormity of this type of hatred — matched only by the preaching of fanatic Muslims — by latching on to a Robinson endorsement of the anointed Obama. Robinson, himself, is undoubted lured more by the possibility of getting favors from Obama’s camp – such as an appointment to his cabinet, perhaps? — than by making an endorsement strictly based on his evaluation of the candidate’s merit.

And through it all, the media runs the show. They tear apart candidates they disfavor, ignore ones they argue are a waste of time, and put others that they are charmed by on a sanctioned pedestal. These are the anointed ones. And, in the meantime, they play with our future; mess with our minds; insult our intelligence; and laugh their way to the bank. We as a nation are screwed.