He said, she said, he said

I did an image search on ‘he said, she said’ looking for a cute cartoon and found this: It isn’t cute, but it made me giggle!

So topical for so many reasons! Just be careful out here in the land of 1s and 0 s my friends. You can *never* be too cynical on the internet!

Meanwhile, it is this kind of naivety that is so on display all the time in this country. Blindly following whatever drivel the “news” stations tell them. Lapping it up without question. The media tripping over themselves to report the next starlet’s life event (hopefully a bad one). Their political coverage is 90% bullshit. Someone misspoke? A candidate who has been campaigning endlessly for over a year now stumbled over his/her words? Well, YA-hoo!! That will fill a whole weekend’s news cycle! Never mind anything is actual *substance* they may be talking about! Tell me, how many air time hours have been spent doing a side by side comparison of the candidates stance on the major issues? Any? How many hours have been spent on Bittergate (Obama) or Bosniagate (Clinton) or ShiaSunniGate (McCain)?

**pause** Ok, I know, McCain has been treated with kid gloves so far since the real battle is on the Dem side, but I wanted to give an example from all three to be fair because this is not a partisan rant in anyway or a rant particular to Obama.

As much as I can make fun of, or be embarrassed by our current White House occupant, the least of my issues with him is his preponderance for verbal bombs. Why the heck are we holding the current three running to such high and ridiculous standards? The media picks up on something, throws their spin/interpretation on it, which sends up a red flag to the opposing campaign and then their media hacks jump all over it and spin it more and then feed lines to their candidate and the next thing you know in a forum that is supposed to be about religion in politics they are asking questions about the latest verbal snafu. If the forum had been held a week ago, it would have been Clinton on the hot seat dealing with her Bosnia statements. Whatever! I didn’t tune into that rather unique forum on CNN last night to listen to them dissect Bittergate again! What a load of crap. Between the two candidates, almost 20 minutes of the 90 minute forum was wasted on that. And look, I have issue with them having a Compassion forum anyway. Let’s be real – it was about religion in politics and there should not BE religion in politics. But I am honestly more frustrated at the time that was wasted! I am frustrated that every posting on MSNBC’s First Read for the last several days has just been this mindless drivel that ads *nothing* to  the campaign.

Both Dem candidates claim to *welcome* the extended contest because it is allowing more voters in more states participate in the debates on the issues and let their voices be heard. Oh really? Exactly which issues would those be? Which candidate has been more tired and stumbled over words worst?

Yeah, this is a simple way to put it but all day long all I can think is “The media SUCKS!”