Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Journamalism

My local TV News this morning did its obligatory he said/she said version of the Obama school speech "controversy", first showing a few seconds of a group protesting their district's decision not to air the speech live, then sticking a microphone in front of an elderly woman (heh, she was probably around my age) who said that she just thought that there was something "sinister" about "it". That was it, end of story. On to the next thing.

We appear to be flat in the middle of the Atwater/Rove Age of Hyper-Partisanship given full throttle by George W. Bush and there's no way to turn it off. Indeed, it seems that political defeat just stokes these guys up. I honestly don't know where we go from here.

UPDATE: Helen would know what to say to that woman who found Obama's address to school children "sinister."

1 comment:

Mike Thomas said...

The "sinister" comment lady was the local leader of the San Antonio Tea Party. Notice how they first quoted a representative of the local Democratic Party (Carla Vela) and then for a response went not to the local Republicans, but to the Tea Party nutjobs.
What does that tell you? The Tea Partiers have pretty much taken over the Republican Party today.