Reply #2: I think you're wrong about the media people

[Warpy]

because I think most of those vapid, blow dried bobbleheads suspect the truth. However, the media are now concentrated into a very few corporate hands, and those corporations want to hang onto their near monopolies. They know Stupid can be counted upon to help them do just that. They know someone else, especially a Democrat, might start enforcing some of those hoary antitrust laws and bust up their good things.

The number of people who don't recognize the emperor is not only unclothed but insane is shrinking every day, and that's due in no small part to those same bobbleheads who are ordered to tell us the economy is wonderful when we know it's not, to tell us peace and democracy are around the corner in Iraq when we know the coffins are coming home here and being set into the earth there grow in number every day. Fewer and fewer of us can accept the fact that a man who allows those around him to steal from widows and orphans and working people all over the globe is a Christian of any sort, even a bad one.

I think the media talkers know this all too well. I think they also suspect that by toeing the corporate line, they're sowing the seeds of their own future irrelevance as they become the foci of public mistrust. I have a sneaking suspicion they're all stashing those fat salaries in the hope they can support themselves for several years while they write the Great American Novel, or open shoe stores, or something, because their careers of telling people the TRUTH will be long over.