That Crazy Liberal Media

It's not that I don't have time to blog, it's just that so much of what goes into blogging is eluding me. I'm keeping up with the news but it's draining. There's just so much stupid out there. I have the same complaints about the media everyone does.

So much striving for balance - which obscures truth.

There is either true or false - there is no "well that's your opinion and this is my opinion." There is only truth. The ongoing, never-ending, mainly manufactured ideological struggle between "right" and "left" is infuriating.

I try and stick to Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann - Chris Matthews on Hardball if I have the time. But I get so very tired of the fake outrage debates.

Now that the older ones are dying off, MSNBC seems to be trying to grow their own new rightwing pundits, They have rightwing pundits in training on their various "news"/talk shows. They have to keep the shit stirring. It's what pays the bills.

It's not really news. It's just something to keep our attention in between commercial breaks. I'm sure there's no nobility behind MSNBC allowing Rachel Maddow to host a show there. They recognized a financial hole and they filled it, that's all. It's like in the 90s when Michael Moore had a show on the Fox network. It made them some money for a while. Rachel and Keith are making MSNBC some cash, for now. More power to 'em. May it continue. But I remember 8 years ago when people were afraid to speak out against Bush Cheney war plans for fear of being called unpatriotic or worse, MSNBC's Dan Abrams would have someone like Margaret Cho on to interview her about the peace movement. And he'd look into the camera and roll his eyes, as if to say, "...What a loon! Can you believe I found someone who doesn't agree with President Bush? She must be fucking high." We were all just a joke to you then, MSNBC. I'm sure we still are today.

No, I don't have much faith that MSNBC has any more scruples than Fox News Network or CNN. Happy to see they're pandering to my liberal bias in order to sell Tide detergent, though.