From American Thinker

May 04, 2009
A Wind Blows Against The Political Spectrum
By Lee Cary

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Excerpt:

So from FOX we get the signature format of battling talking-heads shouting at each other, a fair and balanced format populated by the fairly unbalanced.

On CBS we watch groupthink panel discussions — live chat rooms for the commonly persuaded. The most popular transition from one expert to another is “Yes, and furthermore…”

MSNBC offer us a steady diet of vitriolic sarcasm dished out by acidic critics.

Most of us are not partisans. Our main skin-in-the-game is our own skin, and that of our loved ones.

For now, we’re trapped. Like an audience chained to its seats, we’re forced to watch constant, and consistently bad, political theater. An opera where the actors sing off-tune. The words don’t match the action. The plot is muddled. And a tone deaf orchestra without talent plays off beat.

Meanwhile, in the words of George Orwell, “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”

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