A Foray into Evening News

Just watched the Evening News. As soon as the very green NBC launched into a story on the melting ice-caps in Antarctica, I changed over to CBS. Long ago, NBC lost any objectivity when it comes to global warming, as their newscasts more often than not resemble an Al Gore pet-project rather than an objective look at hard news. Sorry, I won't drink that kool-aid, the man-made global warming myth, that is. So on to CBS. Sorry again folks, it wasn't much better here. The story was on the large-scale failure of Social Security to provide coverage for a growing number of disabled Americans filing for assistance. (First of all, the reason for the fiasco is because Social Security is a government constructed pyramid-scheme that is bound to bankrupt itself. The problem is the government and their obsessive meddling. Let the market take care of health care! But I digress.) Back to the story. The implication by CBS was obvious: Bush and his rapacious, money-grubbing cronies have stiffed those in need. To ensure "objectivity," the CBS reporter met up with the nefarious Social Security Commissioner in order to find out why he's denying so many claims from people who are disabled. Poor guy, he also had the misfortune of also being a white male, which doesn't bode well in the world of the attack-dog liberal media. After all, it's usually "women and minorities" who are "hit hardest" by bureaucratic incompetence, especially when a white Republican male is in charge. Then came the pièce de résistance. They featured a transition clip of this villainous commissioner walking down the hall in his office, and as he walked, he passed by a gargantuan picture of George Bush and a grinning Dick Cheney! Actually, it was more of a smirking Dick Cheney. I erupted in laughter for about two minutes. Again, the use of subliminal messaging was uncanny and well, not so subliminal after all, come to think of it. Bush and Cheney are doing nothing to help these afflicted souls, well, no, that's not true. They are fighting a cowboy-style, shoot-em-up "war for oil" while millions of Americans at home are suffering. No wonder I've largely given up on these networks. But it was funny.
"Let'em suffer!"