IS THE MEDIA ON OUR SIDE?

There was a bit of an uproar last week when a top executive of CNN , Mr. Eason Jordan, was heard commenting on the fact that American troops were intentionally targeting journalists, and American journalists in particular. He was immediately challenged on this statement and then spent the better part of two days trying to deny what he had said. He was forced to resign, but this does not change the fact that the once interesting and unique news giant, CNN, has become a wounded leviathan of liberal nonsense.
The time has come and gone for CNN, where such vaunted icons as Hollywood sycophant Larry King rules and commentators and newsmen who may not have a particular bias are not wanted anymore. The upstart Fox News has become a leader in news and while it purports to be “fair and balanced”, we all know that this merely means conservative thinkers are in charge in their news rooms as surely as liberals control CNN. This is alright because truthfully if any is watching the news and cannot tell the difference between advertising and reality then they should probably be watching something else less taxing on their minimal intellects.
I remember when CNN first began broadcasting Crossfire, with Tom Braden and Pat Buchanan: Braden the wise, old liberal and Buchanan, the feisty conservative . They were something new and interesting at the time and for all of their differences they had some things upon which they both were very fervent. One was that they both loved America. Braden had fought in World War II and Buchanan had served in the Nixon White House for a time and saw what he believed was the media’s attacks against American policy which caused the people to turn against the Administration and led to the loss of Vietnam, when we pulled out in 1975.
One of my favorite shows was when they had David Duke the new Nazi leader or wolf in sheep’s clothing as he ran a political campaign and tried to win office by convincing white men that they had every right to blame everyone else for their woes. Both Braden and Buchanan tore into to him and showed him for the Nazi hidden underneath the mask of respectability. Duke did move around for a while longer, but the wind had been punched from his sails and he never reached the pinnacle of success again. This was thanks to to men who disagreed on nearly everything except that sometimes for the good of our country we have to work together.
We are another juncture in our country and instead of people learning the simple lesson that when we are all in danger we must put our petty and even our serious disagreements aside until the danger that lurks is gone. We must put aside our bitching and moaning until we end this battle with forces who want us dead. Not just liberals dead or conservatives dead, but they want all Americans, and truthfully probably all Westerners, Easterners, everyone else who does think as they do.
Get It, Got It, GOOD! Now let us show them that CNN, Fox news, Americans all, we will not allow ourselves to be divided and destroyed without one hell of a fight, whether it be with words or weapons, we will prevail or we will take as many with us as we can, so that we can leave this place better than how we found it.
Daniel Carvel Kepler