Would You Like Fries With That?
Deborah Venable
05/15/11
News
junkies were given a double dip of that sensational crowd pleaser recently –
namely, “breaking news!” First, the out
of the blue release of Barack Obama’s long awaited, long form birth certificate. Then, the shocker of all shockers – Osama
bin Laden, dead at last – with the tag line, “photos to follow! Yummy, huh?
What vastly different flavors in those two dips!
That
was just the dessert served first.
Getting
down to the meat of the matter, though, we find a lot more filler than
substance on both counts. In this meal,
nothing is as it seems. The birth
certificate is every bit as useless as the first internet distributed birth
document released a couple years ago, and the bin Laden story has more holes in
it than a piece of Swiss cheese. Oh,
don’t get me wrong – I believe he’s dead, I just wish the storytellers had
hired a better scriptwriter and stuck to the final edit! Sorry for the continued food analogy here,
but it is almost like being told to eat the menu in place of the real meal!
I
won’t waste a lot of time here on the release of the birth certificate except
to say it is simply an elaborate distraction from the real issue. I am a realist, though, and realize that
Obama, the cart, was put before the horse, the vetting process, and the result
is that we are going nowhere unless it is backwards. (I’m still betting a lot of folks will have to wash an awful lot
of egg off their faces some day.)
The
removal of Osama bin Laden from this land of oxygen breathers is a different
story. This one will keep the analysts
busy for a very long time unless something else happens to sweep the story off
the headlines. The long and short of
it, though, is that bin Laden’s death is a military victory – pure and
simple. Members of our excellent,
unprecedented military were sent to get him and they got him! (They planned while the president slept on
it.) Obama was backed into a corner to
give the order to go get him, and so he did.
Gutsy!
At
this point the main course starts sitting a little heavy on the stomach. The combination of ingredients and flavor
enhancements, the cooking of the whole thing in too many conflicting pots,
well, the smell really – it’s just all spoiling the taste of the thing.
It
was bad enough that the burial at sea story was told with such reverence to
Islamic traditions, but now the pictures of the whole thing, including the
damnable dead body, are off limits to the little people? As the intellectuals ran that one across the
goal line, you can surely bet that THEY spiked the damned football! So now what? We observers are just supposed to settle down in the stands and
order us up another hotdog or hamburger – and would you like fries with that,
m’am?
Those
in charge of what passes for mainstream media and journalism in this country
should bow their heads in shame. Ditto
all the educators in those various fields for the last few decades because they
spawned the lot of them! Political
science and historical re-write educators take your own bows on that one
too. Oh, hell! You all know who you are, so bow your heads
and try for all you are worth to clear your brains of liberal indoctrination
for once! There is no morality in the
drivel that you “teach” so you have starved the youth of the substance of truth
and a real education. In that, there
can be no pride.
Why
the mini-rant in the middle of this otherwise “focused” article?
Call
it spontaneity. Passion, if you will –
the same thing happens whenever I try to digest the daily news. I can be all by myself, reading a newspaper,
watching a media broadcast on television or the internet, or even listening to
a newsbreak on the radio, but I am in constant auditory, verbal dialog with the
“journalists” almost without exception.
I happen to think that I am not alone in this. I’ll bet most of the tea party activists would agree with
me. Some of the things I mutter out
loud are, shall we say, unkind. If we
do ever achieve the Big Brother world of George Orwell, where the screen is
always watching, God help me because I will be one of the first ones hauled off
to the Ministry Of Wherever They Put the Enemies Of the State Run Media.
Those
poor, ignorant folks who still do not see or believe the obvious media bias
need straightjackets and rubber rooms – pure and simple. Latest
breaking
news
from Fox suggests billionaire, George Soros, has his fingers in a lot of media
pies. While this isn’t surprising to
me, (or anyone else paying attention) most of the little people are not likely
to hear about it. I guess old
socialists and communists die like everybody else – it just seems to take them
longer. Meanwhile, they have an uncanny
ability to end up in far too many government education and media positions so
they can keep cranking out the young ones.
As
for the bin Laden story, I’d rather see it dead and buried. Every little detail that continues to be
leaked about the whole operation just endangers the lives and families of those
brave souls that pulled it off, and also weakens what little is left of our
national security as well. Show the
damned pictures of his worthless body and then put this one to bed, boys and
girls – Obama has had enough curtain calls on it!
In the meantime, I hope there are more than a few young
conservatives who have decided that the fourth estate still has an honest job
to do in this fight to regain and then retain our liberties – and I hope they
are utilizing a good truth filter in their classrooms of higher learning so
that they can carry the torch into the next generation.