I hesitate to “borrow” from my own post, but I replied in similar thought processing to Bernie Chapin’s piece. Roger you hit the nail squarely here, but I think it’s high time that someone…anyone…truly puts some issues in the crosshairs…and I believe that the Palin Pronking effect, which has the polls jumping like a Springbok in heat…is the perfect opportunity.

As a final piece of preamble, please forgive me a bit of personal “rules making” here. I will NOT call the alphabet networks, the national dailies, the wire services, the national weekly magazines, Hollywood, or CNN….EVER….by the names that they truly enjoy as their “labels”.

To my ear, “Mainstream Media” or “Elite Media”…are compliments quite undeserved…and absolutely inappropriate. These partisan hacks do NOT represent the mainstream in any way shape or form. They oppose the mainstream.

And, despite their haughty, arrogant, pedantic and smarmy self-aggrandizements…there is nothing particularly elite about the fraud they perpetrate, and their one note echo chamber style of distorting the facts. These morally wayward hijackers of our information stream are on a path to extinction…and should be. They are the DEADWOOD MEDIA.

Our information stream must be trusted to give us facts upon which to make critical decisions as a national, self-governing collective. When opinion is secreted, shrouded and selectively sorted and then served as fact, it’s a fraud in the inducement to act upon an issue of national importance.

Worse, when facts are intentionally distorted, and an agenda is undertaken by the “umpires and refs”…the supposed OBJECTIVE ARBITERS …then the game is clearly rigged and our most important FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS…must be to “unfix the fix”. The integrity of our information stream is not to be trifled with because no reasonable, rational decision could be made based upon crooked refs.

Clark Hoyt is the poster child for all that is wrong in the Deadwood Media. Smug and smarmy, he is incapable of identifying the creeping necrosis metastastizing in the body of his failing institution. It takes a particularly noxious blend of cowardice and narcissism to wag your finger and schoolmarm the backlash against your “rigging and fixing” the game.

Leftists are so arrogant as to believe their own propaganda, that everyone who doesn’t agree with them…is too stupid to see their open and obvious deceit.

They have dominated the information stream for so long, they have controlled the “message” for so many decades…that they have fallen victim to their own fraud. It’s been too easy. It enrages them when they get called on it. And they have two responses…denial and retribution.

That “message” is the Leftist Credo. Look for America’s flaws, look to Euro-Socialism as an answer, look to enemies for reasons why we are to blame for their misfortions, look to corporate America for greed, look to Middle America for ignorance and wrong thinking, look to academia and Hollywood for moral guidance.

I say…shine a light on them now. NBC (the National Barack Channel), CBS, ABC, NYTimes, Newsweek, CNN…it’s time to bring the issue into the sunshine…COLLECTIVELY…and in a HUGE way.