Well, I’ve personally Bush bashed more than most and regard McCain supporters are being utterly out of touch with reality, but in my more diplomatic moments, I reluctantly have to place much of the blame on what passes for the news media in this country. What you guys chronically vilify as the biased, liberal, blah, blah, blah “MSM” doesn’t exist — it’s properly called “the corporate media” and it’s characterized nowadays by sloppy, timid, lazy, and very deficient “coverage” of a small number of news items, and less and less true and thorough investigative reporting. But making things much worse is the supposed “new media” like highly political blog sites like this and Kos, YouTube videos, Twitter and all that — you would be better off calling all this the “boutique media” because of the way it caters to very specific demographics: whether you are an MIT student, retired Marine, wealthy liberal socialite, or Coors gulping redneck, there is a media outlet for you that will make you feel good about your beliefs.
This has made political “debates” pointless and antagonistic. Who caused the financial crisis for instance? If your a conservative, your news sources says it’s because of the Community Reinvestment Act, Democrats who blocked attempts at regulation in 2005, and maybe, possibly, if you’re in the finance business, “FAS 157″ (Google it). If you’re a liberal, you get to blame Bush and his people for not minding the store, and a Republican congress for never actually put out any regulatory bills to vote, and in particular Phil Gramm, now a McCain advisor, for blocked such bills while he was chairman of the Senate banking committee.
So who’s really to blame for all that, then? Well, I’m not going to say, and you shouldn’t be trusting anonymous posters for stuff like this anyway….
