Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Speechgate

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Another manufactured controversy! You know, there's a real connection here with yesterday's post. Talk about undermining Americans' belief in their own institutions of self-government! If I were a conspiracy theorist, I'd start wondering if all of the news media weren't part and parcel of that disgraceful Republican strategy (not just Fox, I mean).

But no, I don't think it's deliberate. I just think it's just a combination of journalistic incompetence, combined with the mindless search for a mass audience, television's "lowest common denominator." But it does our country no good at all.

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