Richard, you seem to be becoming just a little too formulaic in your posts. In each and every instance, you take a single-instance event and in the final summation, attempt to show in overly-flowery prose how it is symptomatic of a greater decline, conspiracy, etc.

Back in the days of Morse, operators could be recognized by their “fist”. A few posts ago I did a text cloud analysis of the speeches of McCain and Palin. Others did those of Obama. Not surprisingly, the clouds were different. Sooner or later everyone develops a “style” that is a reflection of the author’s thought patterns. Signals intelligence exploits the fact that a leopard can’t change his spots. Of course, not everyone likes a particular style and the normal remedy is to go elsewhere. One of the nice things about the Internet is that you don’t have to visit a site, unlike network TV where you had to watch one of a few channels. There are millions of others.