We elect the president and the vice president, we also elect the senators and the representatives who all go to Washington. We also elect our state and local governments.
This is what the democratic system is supposed to be all about.
We elect the people we trust and then we expect them to perform as they promised to perform and in the meantime keep our interests in their sights.
The fact that the majority is crooked and the only thing they care about is themselves is unfortunately par for the course. That is why there are elections every two or four or six years when the bad apple can be thrown out of office.
What this country didn't elect is the media, the fourth estate.
The media comprises the written and electronic media through which they can voice their opinions.
The media also comprises self styled patriots who claim they care about what happens and they also claim the public has the right to know everything.
This is all bogus and false.
All the media cares about is to sell news, with the emphasis on the sell. On a slow news day they get panicky, when something happens they get elated.
They have absolutely no morals. If they could create news they would, regardless of the consequences. Today's news is tomorrow's history.
An earthquake in Haiti is the same news as the upcoming Academy Awards.
Right now the media decided to get rid off the current Governor of New York State, David Patterson.
Patterson never wanted to be the governor. He was lieutenant governor under Eliot Spitzer who resigned in 2008 and then Patterson took over.
He is blind and also an accomplished politician as well as a law school graduate. No matter how one looks at it the man must be brilliant to succeed to this level.
The fact that he is not a great governor is not his fault. But now the media decided to get rid of him. There is nothing he can do right now that they wouldn't find fault with.
They are dredging up things that are unimportant compared to the rest of the garbage that occupy power in Albany, the state capital.
There is no newscast on TV or radio where they don't say disparaging things about him. The media is in a frenzy, whipping up sentiments against this individual.
He must feel like the man in that old TV show The Fugitive. He can find no friend anywhere, everybody is against him and they all out to get him.
Thanks to the power of the media at the end he will very likely resign. Then what? Where will they turn their attention to?
Nobody should underestimate the power of the media. They are unscrupulous and they know no boundaries in the search for salable news. They do not represent the public they only represent what they can sell.
This was just my outburst as I can see the View from the Bottom.
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