Lazy And Stupid In 2004
By Tom Barrett (11/29/04)
On Fox News Watch this evening Neil Gabler said, concerning the media’s reporting of the recent election, that they were “Lazy and Stupid in 2004.” I couldn’t have said it better. The media just don’t get it.
The whole show this evening was built around viewer feedback. One viewer mentioned the fact that the media is very biased in its reporting. Gabler replied that a recent survey of law enforcement commanders showed that 92.2% of police chiefs and high level commanders believe that the media is biased in the way it reports the news.
Please note that these are not wild-eyed members of some vast right-wing conspiracy. These are the men and women who command the police forces (local, state and federal) that protect all of us. These are not, by and large, political people. The fact that they recognize the extreme bias in the media indicates that something is very, very wrong with the way news is reported in this nation.
Cal Thomas and the other commentators on the show mentioned the obvious: Most reporters and producers live on the liberal East and West coasts of the nation, and therefore the people they talk to tend to be liberal people. The idea that this somehow excuses them from presenting all sides of an issue or debate just doesn’t hold water.
I think Gabler is right. The media elites are just lazy and stupid. Lazy because they refuse to leave their comfortable bars and lounges where they drink martinis with others who think just as they do. And stupid because they think that most Americans will buy their hogwash because it is on the TV or in the newspaper.
These people ridicule anyone who believes in God or who holds strong moral values. They just don’t understand that they are insulting the majority when they make their smug pronouncements. Then they wonder how they got it so wrong in their reporting of the election.
They really believed that Kerry would be elected. Oh, they gave lip service to the neck-to-neck nature of the polls, because as soon as it is clear who will win an election, people go back to watching sit-coms. It is in the media’s interest to create the illusion that the race is close, even if they believe it to be otherwise.
So they were shocked when the exit data clearly showed that it was moral values that decided this election. “Moral values!” they cried. “What are moral values?” They seriously do not know or understand what moral values are, much less why they are important to the great majority of Americans. Even many Democrats voted for Bush because they believed him to be morally superior to his challenger.
I wonder if they will ever get it. Perhaps if they stop being so lazy and get out into the heartland of the nation, they will meet some people who can enlighten them on what morals are and why they will always be more important to most of us than government giveaways and other liberal bribes. Perhaps if they stopped being so stupid as to believe that their way of thinking is the only way, and started listening to the people they purport to serve, they might get it.
But perhaps it’s just as well that they don’t. As long as they keep spouting their liberal mantras and twisting the facts, they will continue to have the same credibility as the disgraced Dan Rather – none. And the majority of Americans will continue to use their God-given common sense and ignore the pompous talking heads whose main goal in life is not to inform, but to spread liberal propaganda disguised as news.
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