Reply #49: I take your point ...

[NanceGreggs]

But a big part of the problem here, IMHO, is that the "perception" of who we are as a nation is continually skewed by the MSM.

It's true that almost half of the electorate voted for the senile old man/clueless idiot ticket. But would all of them have done so had the "news media" hammered away at McCain's hypocrisy, or Palin's ethics violations?

As an American living in Canada, I was truly appalled by the outright lies told about the healthcare system here - a six month waiting list to see a doctor, doctors being "government employees", etc. Not a "difference of opinion" - lies, told over and over by GOPers on "the news", without challenge to the veracity of their statements.

It is the "actual reality of things" that is important. Unfortunately, that "reality" has become whatever nonsense is permitted to be spewed over our airwaves.

I don't think Americans look in the mirror and pretend to be something they're not. What they do is look at the MSM's version of things, and accept it as being reality.

I hear it all the time from RWers: If it wasn't true, they wouldn't be allowed to say it on TV.

The point is that so many believe that - and, as a result, believe anything and everything that FOX-News et al puts out.

The Teabaggers are NOT representative of the feelings of an entire nation - but to hear the MSM tell the tale, one would think all Americans are running around with teabags on their heads, carrying protest signs that make no sense whatsoever.

That is NOT who we are - and the MSM saying it doesn't make it so.