We’ll Be Liberal With An Accent
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.