While tea parties took place across the country, our local and national electronic media were airing really important, newsworthy items, such as: mouse droppings in hotel rooms, what a bed bug looks like, turkey killed by automobile, and outtakes from Dancing with the Stars.It’s not censorship per se. It’s over-amplification of the extraneous. Fill a fool’s head with useless information and the really important stuff is lost in the shuffle. On MSNBC, the anchors and commentators derided the protests, referringto them as ‘tea-bagging’ or as ‘GOP Tea Baggage’, in an attempt to insult the valid 1st Amendment rights of American citizens. Had it been militant gays or enraged blacks, MSNBC would have provided sober, sincere thematics and respectful language to describe their alleged grievances. Instead, they’re laughing in the faces of Americans who carry the freight for everyone in this land of ingrates. 

Hopefully, American exercise their right not to watch MSNBC, NBC, CNBC, CNN, ABC and CBS, so that they, along with the New York Times, the LA Times and the Chicago Tribune, will falter and ultimately fail. And once they do, the true agenda of the Democratic Party and its socialist backers will become more apparent.

Labor unions are starting to collect on their investment in a Democratic victory at the polls, and now it’s time for the mainstream media cabal to do the same. After all, it costs big money to harass Sarah Palin and her family, send teams of investigators up to Alaska and distribute slanderous allegations nationwide. Hollywood has already received its $300 million in tax credits, discreetly buried deep inside the pork-ridden bank bailout bill. Now, it’s the media barons’ turn to belly up to the trough. The New York Times and the LA Times are both losing readership and classified ad revenues. They haven’t been able to make much money online. Conservative pundits attribute this to extreme bias and pandering to the left, resulting in an exodus of subscribers. That’s only partially true. The big problem isn’t readership, it’s reading.

In a twist of supreme irony, the same newspapers that championed diversity and multiculturalism, that tirelessly promoted social engineering and socialist causes, are now reaping their just reward. Americans who no longer feel compelled to learn English are not going to read a newspaper printed in English, or its online analog. Americans who no longer feel compelled to be engaged in the national discourse are not going to read a newspaper, English or otherwise. Americans who have come to live in this country in order to enrich themselves and not participate in public life or public institutions are not going to read a newspaper. And finally, those who might consider reading a newspaper or its online equivalent can’t, because they have been so poorly educated by the very same unions and public schools these newspapers have always supported.

Now that bailout spending has reached an epic $7-plus trillion and President Obama promises another trillion in handouts, the newspaper guys think it’s just as well to stick their hands out. One problem - a government subsidizing only a select few media outlets effectively makes those outlets nothing more than propaganda tools. Not that they haven’t already functioned as propaganda tools. This would just formalize the arrangement.  A government-supported New York Times is as dangerous as a government-funded ACLU. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that those who don’t benefit from the government’s largess will be at a competitive disadvantage. But then, fair play has never been a concern of mainstream journalists and TV news anchors. Just ask Bristol Palin.

The Anointed One came to Washington during the Christmas season, bringing Her Majestic Bad Self and the two kiddies along, searching in vain for a place to stay. First, they stopped at Blair House, but were turned away, because tradition has it that no President-Elect can occupy that House before January 15, long after the Christmas season has ended. The President offered the Anointed One and his family a pleasant home amongst the soldiers, but Her Majestic Bad Self would have none of it. After all, the Anointed One had called the soldiers butchers and murderers, and it wouldn’t do to live amongst them in the holy season.

The Anointed One offered his family the humble apartment where he stayed whenever there was a need to visit the great capital of the land, which wasn’t very often. But Her Majestic Bad Self refused that, as well, saying it was too small and too humble for their new station in life. And the Anointed One let the scribes and the storytellers and the town criers know that Her Majestic Bad Self was unhappy that the President wouldn’t throw the occupants of Blair House into the street so that the Anointed One and his loved ones could repose in comfort, or had insulted them by offering a home amongst the soldiers. And so the scribes and the storytellers and the town liars ran through the streets, proclaiming that the Anointed One and his cherished family had been turned away by the heartless rulers of the city, who were mean and vindictive because their rule was over, and the Anointed One was soon to assume the mantle of power.

And though the inns of Mayflower and Hilton offered them suites, Her Majestic Bad Self would have none of it, for these suites were for the common people, the peons and certainly not majestic enough for the Anointed One, Her Majestic Bad Self and the kiddy-kins. And so they stayed, fuming, in the cold windy city from whence they came. And perhaps, the Christmas season will find them there, instead of the slightly warmer and party-cloudy climes of the great capital. And there will be hell to pay on a holy day.

Barack Obama once promised to put George W. Bush and Dick Cheney on trial if he were elected President. A year has passed since that comment, and nothing more has been said, either by Obama or the ever-watchful and unbiased media cabal. The same holds true for any investigations into Freddy Mac, Fanny Mae, the Wall Street CDO pandemic and the resulting global economic crash. That’s strange. By this time, the media could have surely identified, convicted and sentenced somebody responsible for this mess. The media firing squads would be back in their barracks, cleaning their muskets in anticipation of the next round of public executions.

Instead, there is silence. No one other than a few right-wing zealots have called for investigations into the actions of Barney Frank, Chris Dodd or Joe Biden as they related to Fanny Mae or Freddy Mac, much less other Democratic members of Congress, much less Obama adviser Franklin Raines. George W. Bush has not publicly stated his rage and frustration with Democratic maneuvering that blocked investigations into Freddy Mac or Fanny Mae when there was still time to save the economy. The President hasn’t commented publicly on the various bits of short-sighted legislation dating back as far as the early Clinton years which formed the underlying causes of the most current Wall Street debacle. Maybe he has, and the media cabal has effectively ignored him.

Should George W. Bush have made more noise about the impending disaster that engulfs our country and now the entire world? Did in fact he do so, only to be drowned out by American Idol, Brangelina, reality shows, Big Ten football, crime sprees of the rich and famous, etc., etc.? Will ‘historians’ blame George W. Bush for the economic collapse of the United States of America and its subsequent fall into socialism? Yes, they will. Except, it won’t be worded quite that way. Instead, Bush will be characterized as a foolish, impetuous leader who got us involved in a pointless foreign war, while ignoring the looting on Wall Street prompted by Republican-led deregulation. And it was only with great effort and foresight that heroic Democrats, with Obama in his winged chariot, surrounded by a heavenly host and a chorus of socialists, were able to pull the country back from the brink of anarchy and give everyone exactly what they wanted just by taking it away from the rich. That’s how mythologies are started, after all.