Reply #10: I'm Also Worried About A Perry Candidacy

[Vogon_Glory]

I also worry about a Rick Perry candidacy. Not so much because Perry's policies haven't been absolutely horrible--they have been, but because of his likely treatment in the corporate media. I am very much afraid that the arrogant, lazy, pretentious @ss-clowns who populate the newsrooms of newspapers, broadcast, and cable media will give Governor Goodhair the same sort of frequent-liar free pass they gave George Dubya Bush. They'll fall over themselves to lap up his public relations puff pieces and right-wing propaganda while paying just about as much attention to his awful record as Texas Governor as an ADD six year old would give to a space shuttle pilot's launch briefing. When the occasional progressive succeeds in battering their way past the walls of their Beltway Ivory Tower to ask them why they haven't bothered to publish or even research Ricky's political record, they'll shrug their shoulders and write off such concern as "liberal hysteria."

The Founding Father intended that the Press was to be an additional check on the arrogance and pretensions of elected officials in the US. Unfortunately for us and for the American media, the "lame-stream" media has failed MISERABLY to provide any scrutiny or oversight of any right-wing elected or appointed official.

:grr:

:argh: