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link Hispanics not motivated for 2010 election – Washington Times.

The racism accusation is a favorite device used by liberals when trying to gather support from immigrants from opposing conservatives during elections.  Anyone paying attention to the rhetoric knows the opposite is true, that the people supposedly championing racial equality are the same ones treating ethnics as homogeneous blocs. 

While that may be true for a specific segment of the voting population in the US, namely blacks, according to this link,  http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/10/obama-approval-gallup-blacks.html, it’s unlikely that most people necessarily vote along racial lines.  In the case of Latinos, many of whom are escaping their homelands of Mexico or Cuba in order to improve their economic circumstances, personal finance and well being are more important to them than solidarity with  their ethnic brethren.  If they just wanted to hang out with their peeps, presumably, they wouldn’t have taken the trouble to break into the U.S. 

It’s actually insulting to all minorities that just because someone in office is of their race that they should automatically receive the group vote.  It’s always been amusing to me that “Person A” deigns to represent the Asian community, or the Latino community or the Polish community.  Imagine if someone were put forth to represent the White community.  Chris Matthews would be foaming like mentos in a coke bottle. 

Getting back to Latinos, or all ethnics for that matter; they all have one thing in common in their arriving to the U.S., the ambition to make something of themselves in one of the few, if not the only nation left in the world, where you can succeed based only on your hard work.  Most people are driven by the desire for a better life for their family than observance of any group cause.  In that respect, this parallels the desires of most of the larger community.  When you think about it, that was the essence of the founding of the country in the first place 300 years ago. So if politicians are going to pander and lie to the people, at least lie about the things that affect everyone.  Everyone basically wants the same things, jobs, freedom and of course the classic and elusive pursuit of happiness.  Well, most people.

So when the headlines read that Hispanics are not motivated for the 2010 election, maybe, just maybe that’s because the present administration’s policies aren’t viewed favourably by them… as individuals.  People aren’t monolithically stupid because of race.  Bad policies for one are probably bad policies for all.

link CNN’s Piers Morgan Vows Format And Other Changes To Beat Fox News Competition: Promises “I’m Going To Be There To Win” And “It’s Time To Kick Some Ratings Butt” – Deadline.com.

A big As if on this story.  It’s possible that skewed entertainment may find an audience somewhere, but unless there’s hard objective news, our hero Piers Morgan will be voted off after season one.  Actually, it’s an ongoing curiosity that the competing channels to Fox News offer the kind of programming that they do.  The U.S. is a conservative nation, yet the public networks are populated with liberal mouthpieces, some of whom are borderline insane.  Anyone with a rational bone in their body can see that a guy like Keith Olbermann is just an outburst away from a fitting with the long armed jacket.

It’s a miracle that Larry King still managed to hold onto his show for as long as he did.  I can only suspect that the fossils who cared to watch him had actually died and left their TV’s on during his show, leading  the Nielson people to mistakenly count them as actual live viewers. 

The record so far for CNN is not good.  Over the past year, they’ve offered shows that were intellectually dishonest, like the recently axed Rick Sanchez and the equally flaccid Christiane Amanpour, to the intellectually vapid, like the Joy Behar show.  This is what they consider to be tapping into America’s interests and sensibilities.  Americans are quite different from Europeans and even from Canadians.  They do not like to be told what to think.  Virtually every network and cable outlet except for Fox has been pushing the same tired propoganda over the past few years.  Obama is a genius, Palin is dumb.  Democrats are sympathetic, Republicans are wing nuts.  People can pretty much figure it out for themselves  and if they determine that the truth is quite the contrary, all credibility is gone.

Consider this.  Bill O’Reilly and Glenn Beck, two of Fox’s star opinion purveyors actually have a tour in which they go around the country…just talking.   These are two pudgy, grumpy  middle aged guys.  And the shows sell out.  The message they convey is so compelling that people would pay to see them.  I cannot imagine any personality from any of the other networks who have that kind of drawing power. There’s an epiphany here  for the CNN’s, the CBS’s, the NBC”s and the ABC’s of America, people want to hear honest, positive things, not “progressive” agendas.  At the moment, Fox is the only source for objective news.  The rest may as well be part of The Colbert Report.