Forget the terrorist watch lists, I’m almost fearful the next couple of elections will be a bloodbath if liberals and conservatives are allowed near each other. I’ve been away and busy for a while but I’ll chime in on a few of the more recent controversies, statements and curiosities I have running through my head:
-Liberals are still blaming George Bush for many of our present ills. Lest we forget, Bush can’t be to blame for ALL of our present ills although he did little to stem the resentment vote by continuing to pursue his compassionate conservativism. But where the left screams Dubya, I can find just as many conservatives still bemoaning the Clinton years.
- Journolist. So the young, liberal jouralists lambast fox news for bias and scheme to fight back by being more biased. Showing they are no better than their perceived enemy. Except the Journolist is made up of liberal journalists who work for a variety of different outlets. So here’s my question: How is Fox News so dangerous being one outlet when there is now a widespread conspiracy exposed of journalists at multiple outlets pushing the left agenda? Shouldn’t we be more afraid of how tainted a wide plethora of outlets are covering news rather than a single news outlet?
Also, here’s a little lesson from a salty trucker who has no specific training in journalism aside from a stint on the high school newspaper: opinion pieces are not news. Fox News runs a newscast. Find bias in the news, not in the opinions of shows that appear between the news. Fox news has a definite editorial slant when it comes to programming opinion. Anyone picked up any newspaper lately?
And in case anyone should get the wrong impression, I don’t like Fox News. Not because of bias but because I hate their newscasts. Personal preference.
- Breitbart runs a video clip entirely out of context. Bad mistake. Team Obama reacts so quickly to fire, then offer to re-hire, it makes you wonder why the administration is so slow to respond to just about everything else. They took the time to carefully plot out a response to the Israeli raid on the blockade runners. And why is this administration listening so carefully to conservatives? Bush did what he did in spite of a largely hostile press then stammered through a poorly worded response afterwards. He stuck to his guns, no matter how dumb it was to hold on to the position.
- NAACP continues to walk the path to irrelevance. I’d be interested to see the actual impact of the NAACP over time within the black community. I’d likely wager that they haven’t been relevant to black culture since the 1980s or 1990s. If anything, time has done more for the advancement of colored people than the organization has done. From Gen X down to the kids today, most could care less about race as it is not a factor in their lives they consider relevant to their social being if they’ve grown up in am urban setting. Let’s be realistic, the greatest threat to a person’s potential, regardless of his or her skin color is his or her decision making abilities.
- There was a recent report that the trucking industry was going to need about 400,000 new drivers to fill expected shortages. Cited but not fully explain is that 200,000 of these positions are to fill jobs that are taken from current drivers who will fail to meet the requirements set out in the new set of safety regulations and scoring mechanism. In other words, regulation is putting people out of work, creating a driver shortage and will most likely cause rate increases across the board if the shortages are not taken care of. You just don’t seem to hear much about that when Team Obama touts the success of stimulus spending and jobs creation.
