Media Fail
Remember Tiger Woods and his many sordid affairs? The media ate that up. It only took two weeks for our media sources to have “investigated,” found him guilty and hung him out to dry. Meanwhile, it has taken months for the media to “officially” report that former senator and presidential candidate John Edwards had a child out of wedlock, denied it…and did both while a major candidate in the 2008 race. Too, remember that it was the National Enquirer that broke the Edwards story wide open. The NATIONAL ENQUIRER. Not The New York Times, which had this profile about Cindy McCain in 2008, or the Washington Post, which had a front-page story about Governor McDonnell’s thesis from two decades or even Drudge, which only last week had a picture of Senate Majority Reid (D-NV) and a story about his alleged facelift as the leading story.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again- our professional media has failed us. However, in the age of the Internet, we have zero excuses. Let’s hold the professional media responsible by using the free market choices we have via the Internet, TV, newspapers, radio and magazines to show them Michael Jackson, facelifts, the Balloon Boy and other non-stories won’t cut it anymore.
Common-Sense Leadership
Apologies for the late post on this topic- I’ve been very busy the for last week. However, last week the Republican governors?seemed to decide on a strategy they think will win them elections next year and, if I may say so, it’s about time. As newly-elected Virginia governor McDonnell said, ?The focus should be on bread-and-butter, kitchen-table, quality-of-life issues…I think that really helped us. We ended up with a two-to-one margin with independent voters because of our focus on the economic problems.?
It’s about time Republicans and conservatives stopped worrying about gay marriage. Economic issues are not only the most important issue facing the country, they are more relevant to most people than two guys living together. Plain and simple. The governors are somewhat ignoring abortion, which is not good- it’s murder, after all- and gun control, but since most Americans are in support of gun ownership, I’m not too worried about that one. Once we get into power, then we can worry about those issues. After all, it’s not about being moderate- it’s about being conservative and appealing to moderates.
