What has happened to our news media?

Never, in my lifetime, have I seen such blatant pandering to a presidential candidate or a president by the press. Reporters, people who are supposed to be professionals, are talking about being weak-kneed or tingly when they hear Obama speak. Could it be that they are not listening to what the man says, but only how he says it?

I don't know what is going on with this guy, but whatever spell is cast on these reporters... I don't get it. Maybe it is because I'm the type of guy who is not effected by advertising. The commercials that make people cry just leave me wondering what the commercial had to do with what they were advertising. I'm not the kind of guy who is moved by luxury car commercials. I don't buy into senseless symbolism.

Frankly, Obama's speech pattern, which is carefully coached and designed to draw and keep attention, mostly annoys me. I know the intent of the way he speaks. I know why he pauses in the middle of key sentences. Since I know WHY he speaks the way he does, it just annoys me.

"Why does it annoy you?" you may ask. Well, it is because he talks a great deal without saying much. President Obama paints with a wide paintbrush. So wide, in fact, that anything at all can be read into what he has said.

I'm with the old lady in the Wendy's commercial from the 80's. I want to know, "Where's the beef?"

Where is the substance?

Even Obama's first executive order is vague. Sure, he wants to shut down Guantanimo, but HOW? What are we going to do with the people that are there? No other countries want them, not even their home countries. We don't need them in our prisons. What good is our criminal justice system going to do against such people?

The new "stimulus" plan from our new leader is also vague.

I guess there are two ways to be cryptic. You can make a lot of speeches that make people feel good, but never really reveal anything of substance. Or you can clam up, and only tell the people what you want them to know.

What we have now, is W. 2.0. The new, improved version will address this nation a lot more than Presiden Bush did, and in all the rhetoric will say as little if not less than G.W. Bush...

Don't forget, this president is one of the same senators who wanted to keep grass roots organizations from knowing what was going on in Congress. This is one of the same guys who was a senator that wanted to make sure that people lost one of the last places to find out what actually happens in washington.

We now have a president and a congress who are of a like mind. To them, the people no longer have a right to know.

Nice job, America. You've elected another well trained beurocrat.

And you were duped into it. Not by the politicians, but by the media. They were hell bent on doing everything they could to make sure they were part of history. The bias, this time, wasn't about left or right, democrat or republican. The press, as a whole, was literally salivating over the ratings that they would gain out of "making history."

You want to know who the greatest enemy to this nation is? It is not a foreign body, nor terrorists. It is the press. Do you know why President Bush's ratings were so low? It was not anything done by the president on its own. It was the fact that the press, as a whole, aided the enemy in winning the propaganda war.

The media is no longer just reporting the news. They are DRIVING it. The worst part is that they KNOW what they are doing, and will drive this country to ruin as long as they get a good story out of it. They know that the collective mind of the public at large is not real sharp any more. They use that, and they smugly tell us exactly what they want us to know, nothing more, and nothing less, to control our economy, politics, sex drives, and what we buy.

Pay attention people! They are no longer the News. They are a marketing force beyond anything the world has ever seen. And the real victims are the American People.

If you have ever wondered how so many wild-eyed, opinionated, hyper-emotional people ever got on the news, the reason is ratings and profits. Sensationalism and hype are the best marketing tools. Besides, the old guys who just want to give the news are stiff, and boring. They don't want to make history, they don't want to make news. They only want to chronicle and report it. Psh!

Objectivity? Bleh! That's boring, and you can't market "boring."