GOP: “Jump!” --> Media: “How High?”

Item 1: The mainstream media in America has grown increasingly absurd in their obsequious acquiescence to any subject Republicans claim as important. The latest were the comments by Senator Majority leader Harry Reid in 2008. At the time, as I’m sure you heard, he spoke about Obama’s light skin and lack of “Negro dialect” as factors that could help him win the Presidency. Oh my God! He should quit! How could he say these abominable things! This is even worse than when Trent Lott said we would have been a lot better off if a staunch racist and segregationist had become president. Huh, now wait a minute . . . is this a good analogy? I think the GOP might be on the road to failing the standardized tests they love so much. Reid makes a Real Politik comment in support of a Black candidate for President, that probably holds some truth. Lott says the country would be better off with a racist. Me thinketh the lady doth protest out of her asseth: www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2010/01/10/reid_gaffe?source=newsletter.

Item 2: Last week ex-presidential and New York Gubernatorial candidate Rudy Giuliani goes on CNN and spews a line of bullshit that is hard to believe, arguing that there were no terrorist attacks under Bush, but one under Obama (www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/01/08/us/politics/AP-US-Terrorism-Giuliani.html). Is he that stupid? Is the media? Well, no one challenged him as he forgot the moment that made him a national superstar or the shoe bomber’s failed attempt, that huh, sounds pretty similar to the we’re talking about now. How daft is the media today? Do they even listen to what their guests are screaming at each other? Do they care? Here is what Host George Stephanopoulos said: ''All of you who have pointed out that I should have pressed him on that misstatement in the moment are right,'' he wrote on his blog. ''My mistake, my responsibility.'' I think maybe it’s time to bring back the “Stop the Insanity” loon Susan Powter, though her insanity should be fully focused on the most inept set of pundits and reporters in history. These clan makes Judith Miller seem like Edward R. Murrow.