Posted by
Aaron G on Tuesday, August 05, 2008 5:56:28 PM
I received this email from an acquaintance of mine today. He's not a very political guy and he doesn't pay much attention to the media. But to most Americans, when it smells like a fish and looks a fish well....
I watched the news tonight and they were doing a story on how the South is handling the possibility of a black president. The name of the story was called "Southern Discomfort" and they interviewed different people of age, and race. Basically they got the son of the author who wrote "Deliverance" that was turned into the Burt Reynolds movie. He went back to northern Georgia to interview people and see if things had changed since his father wrote the book. Basically he interviewed 3 white people and 1 black person about the upcoming election and the South in general. He basically painted the South as a stereotypical disgruntled, bigot, racist, confederate loving. backwoods culture who hangs onto the past and hasn't entered the 21st century and who still lives in the 19th century chanting "The South will Rise Again". After watching the interview, you could see where they had cut and edited the story to spin how they want the South to be depicted.
Frankly, I am getting really sick of the news. Night after night, its the same stories and the same agenda. Next time see how the news goes. It may sound something like this: Top story - the economy - "Gas prices are up, people are losing their homes, recession has been here for the past year, people don't have money to spend because all of their money is going toward skyrocketing gas and food costs. It's their employers fault, it's big oil's fault, it's the president's fault. The Earth is melting, if we don't do something the globe will explode, the sky is falling, how will we cope? Now to Politics - Obama, Obama, Obama (McCain who?) Can't wait till November because then the economy will get better, the Earth will cool, the "senseless" war will end and all of our problems will be solved.
Truth:
1. Government can't help us. They can't even balance their own checkbook, what makes you think they can balance yours?
2. Don't buy the hype. The news is full of crap and only wants ratings. To get those ratings they think they have to scare the public in thinking that things are terrible and that maybe the next night things might be better when the public tunes in again.
3. Obama can't save you. Less government is better government - Am I beginning to sound like a Libertarian?
Anyway, thanks for letting me rant.
Kevin
This guy is a pretty good representation of the average tax paying, God fearing, xenophobic American that's catching on to Obama's empty rhetoric and the MSM's complicity in it.