The Fall of Icarus?
What is not in doubt is that our nation has been betrayed.
I do see abuse of the public trust as a form of treason. I do see efforts to force the untried empty suit named Obama on this nation as a high crime.
I see this as a fact not for any belief that Obama is jihadi himself but for the clear and unmistakable fact that he is the wrong person to lead against that threat.
No matter what our financial markets are doing we continue to be under fire in a war that Obama can't even see.
For our nation to be sold down the river by the media for empty promises from an empty suit is criminal.
Learn the names of those who are making this happen. Never forget those names. Never forgive them.
Remember when we had to read 1984 in high school? It's here.
Heads up, Lem. Another Asheville story to cover.
http://www.citizen-times.com/
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Yep, it's outrageous! BUT...check THIS out! One reporter called 'em on the carpet. Joe Biden just about crapped his britches! Best thing I've seen on the news in AGES! Of course, the Obamanation has now banned and forbidden any further contact with this TV station.
SEE VIDEO HERE
Yes, Malinda, I'd already seen that interview thanks to Fits.
I'm sure the much more thoughtful Lem will have something to say on the topic.
You might want to take down your post, since IT IS WRONG. The Gallup poll info you cite conveniently omits hard numerical data on the relative support for each candidate in the polls but merely states that results are about even. A more recent Gallup poll with real data SUPPORTS WHAT THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA HAS REPORTED, namely that Obama is leading in early voting results assuming candidates vote for their party's candidate. You can find the link at: http://www.gallup.com/poll/11158...ing-Now-
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I know you don't like these results, but facts are stubborn things...
Also, regarding the Fairness Doctrine. Even if it were reinstituted, the MSM would not regain power, since the number of channels in a world with cable and satellite radio is too big to bring back the dominance of the big three networks. Moreover, the internet now allows for so much information that we would hardly notice if talk radio went away. The anti-competitive argument is a canard.
The problem with talk radio, the internet and other free forms of media is that nothing is fact checked as it once was, so systematic bias (e.g., Hannity on the right and Olbermann on the left) is rampant. I do agree that the Fairness Doctrine will not solve it, but more aggressive fact checking and perhaps tougher libel laws might make people think twice about lodging accusations that Obama is a terrorist or a Marxist when it doesn't square with the facts and a clear intent to malign for political gain can be proven. This would take the air out of the rhetoric from people in the McCain campaign in a hurry, and in a more effective way than the Fairness Doctrine ever would. As it stands now, people can live in a world of lies without consequence. This is dangerous to our democracy.
Cable & Satellite is all good, but while in your car...we need radio, satellite or not and I have XM + local. Talk radio at least to me sometimes outweighs music. I choose other times in my life with other people (like another human in my car) like my husband or a friend to sing with 
When I'm alone in the car - I listen to talk.
I'm a firm believer of keeping your friends close and your enemies closer...so I USED to listen about 50/50 to local liberal radio and conservative radio. Guess what? Liberal radio couldn't hang or get advertisers to pay and "poof" they are suddenly gone...no more listen to the enemy...the owners...try as they might...had no income and those stations chose other avenues of "talk" to make us listen.
I also use the internet as a main medium and still there is a need for talk radio. I really don't want to sound mean...I'm NOT...but history and stats prove that liberal talk media has failed miserably, and conservative talk media rates very high. Numbers don't lie.
If Fairness Doctrine was reinstituted, talk radio stations would fail because for every hour NOW that they get HIGH ratings, THEN they would get high ratings only EVERY OTHER HOUR. Nobody listens (not enough to pay the bills anyway) to liberal talk radio.Poll yourselves all you wish...the proof is in the pudding as they say and liberal stations fail at least in talk radio. CNN & MSNBC are still hanging on...it's visual. Not particularly more believable persay to YOU than FOX...but then think...(bet you don't even watch FOX News...) On any given day, they will have at least a fair number of liberals on the news as they do conservatives...Can't say that about the "others"...add 'em...mark it...watch it...it's TRUE!
FOX is the #1 rated news video channel. Conservative radio rates high. I'm a small business owner. I advertise on music channels, TV, talk radio, newspaper, etc.
THE BEST BUSINESS AND THE MOST BUSINESS AND THE MOST BANG FOR MY BUCK comes from customers that tell me they heard my ad on, "yep...you guessed it...a FREAKING LOCAL AM...HEAR ME BROTHER...AM RADIO talk radio channel KKOH AM Reno, NV. We just advertise our company...we have NO POLITICAL affiliation in our advertising...
I have a MAJOR campaign going on right now on a VERY POPULAR (#2 in the city) classic rock radio music station in which we are giving away $1875 worth of stuff. In TWO MONTHS only 125 people have entered the drawing. But yet...almost EVERY NEW customer that walks through my door and I ask "How'd you hear about us?" Almost without FAIL they say on the talk radio KKOH...AND I ONLY PAY FOR SPONSORSHIP FOR A 5-10 SECOND BIT THERE AT TRAFFIC AND WEATHER!!!
My HUGE campaign on the rock music channel plays 8-10 times per day for a whole 60 second (1 minute) AWESOME ad...and in two months...only 125 of 500,000 people!
Numbers just DON'T LIE! 2+2=4 ALWAYS!
Obama can "bring change" all he wants, but I KNOW in my business where the business comes from for the expenditure of my advertising dollar and it comes far and above from a little Conservative AM talk radio channel in a county of 500,000 people.
You say people live in a world NOW of LIES without CONSEQUENCE. AMEN BROTHER! Conservatives are ALL ABOUT consequence.
It's the LACK OF CONSEQUENCE that's been taking USA down. Ask any Republican...McCain might not have been our first choice and he might not ever stand out as one of the "Greats" as presidents go.
However...NO CONSERVATIVE, even one that might lean a little left will EVER believe in "From each according to his ability to each according to his needs!"
BECAUSE...in TODAY'S world like you describe in which there is so much systematic bias, WHY TRY when you can HAVE?
I've watched it, I see it in my city, I even see it sometimes with my employees until I remind them of consequence.
I know half a million people doesn't seem like a lot, but MOST on our "welfare" rolls are indigent, non-caring, non-trying individuals and a good many (55% of owing receivers of hospital care in the county hospital) are in the USA ILLEGALLY!
Crippled people, Mentally challenged people, Birth defected people, OLD people beyond their ability to do have EVERY RIGHT to ANY help they need!
Crack whores, gang bangers, healthy men and women that get a hand UP and when just about to rise above THAT realize that when they DO BETTER will NO LONGER get the Gov't check??? And they choose to do less to keep the check??? Brother...there are FAR MORE of THEM than there are the folks REALLY IN NEED.
THERE ARE MORE PEOPLE IN NEED OF CONSEQUENCE THAN THERE ARE PEOPLE IN NEED OF HELP!
My new mantra is...(since it appears that "The One" is going to win the election...when you're down and out in a few months...)
Maybe next year..when you need a hand up and I will no longer give it to you...I'm gonna tell you to call Obama! He promised you EVERYTHING! He promised you CHANGE!
You'll get change allright, me the lowly mom & pop business owner sitting as an S-Corp (look it up) will get taxed AGAIN up the yazoo and I will no longer be able to afford your $2000 Christmas bonus.
Me, Joe Business Owner will no longer have the money to loan you $10,000 to have dental work done to save your life (yes bad teeth can kill you) and payroll deduct it at $100 per paycheck for a few years.
I will no longer have the ability to give you $50 or $100 just because it's your birthday. I can't see a job well done anymore and just cut you a check for $500 'cause dammit, you just deserve it!
DON'T SPREAD MY WEALTH...let me...I said LET ME...whatever (not wealth) I have...LET ME DOLE IT OUT to the 22 employees that GIVE ME their blood sweat and tears every day of every year while already making ($15 is our lowest per hour salary & $29 is the highest) good money just for doing their jobs!
Don't preach to ME systematic bias! Don't preach to ME Obama's Socialist CHANGE... Don't preach to ME how much better YOU think YOU'LL have it under his rule...
AND BY ALL MEANS...MR. BROTHER AND COUNTRYMAN...DON'T CRY TO ME EITHER...
WHEN OBAMA DOESN'T MEET ALL OF YOUR NEEDS...DON'T COME TO ME WANTING A HAND UP...
Call Barack Hussein Obama...he's the one that promised it all to you...all I promised you was consequence.
Again, dg...with all due respect.
Malinda777, if conservatives believe in consequences, then why do they give free passes to the GOP, which has outspent the Dems on social programs and poured money down a rat hole in the mismanaged conflict we call the Iraq War? I can't see any more consequences in the GOP than the Democratic Party, but McCain is running a campaign as if he's an outsider rather than the long-time insider he is... Doesn't make sense to me.
Also, if numbers don't lie, then show me numbers that say that there are more people in need of consequences than people in need of help. I see a lot of hardworking Americans seeing the middle class disappear through no fault of their own, and I see a lot of Republican blow-hards who think that another capital gains tax cut is a panacea. Who is living in the dream world? Show me the numbers, because I think right now the GOP has lost its touch with reality, which is why they are blaming the CRA for the financial crisis and liberals for the problems in Iraq.
dg,
Your type of thinking is typical of hoe liberals think.
"I see a lot of hardworking Americans seeing the middle class disappear through no fault of their own, and I see a lot of Republican blow-hards who think that another capital gains tax cut is a panacea."
Hmmm.. who the hell created the middle class? Who is the one hiring people from the middle class for jobs?
Have you ever asked yourself why "middle class people" demand/expect jobs/certain level of life just because they think that they have the right level of education/talent ?
I am one of those middle class people myself. And all those questions i asked where rhetorical. You know the answers to those questions just as much as i do. Yes, its them, the "rich people" whom we all love to hate.
I also love the way you threw in the reference to capital gains tax cut as being a panacea - as far as you are concerned, the only people who benefit from the stock markets are rich businessmen, right ? Maybe you should check with the 55% of American households whose members have stocks, IRA's and 401 K's invested.
May be then you will understand why a capital gains tax cut is not a bad idea.
But hey, you are cocksure of your position, so why even have a sane reasonable argument about it, right ?
Welcome to the Obama world where capital gains taxes are going to increase by atleast 50% and possibly even double.
Thank George W Bush for all this, btw.
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