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Living in the Twilight Zone
The Georgia Patriot
November 7, 2011
Ever since I can remember, (some friends may argue I can’t remember what I did
yesterday), I have had a reoccurring dream. It usually starts as any normal day
then something so obviously and horrifically wrong happens and I’m the only one
that notices. I try to conform, at first, followed by my shouting from the
proverbial rooftops trying to get someone to realize the injustice, only to be
deemed crazy or overreacting to the events of my dream. As I sat and watched
the news on Sunday, I could only pray I was still dreaming.
Granted, my man Herman had a horrible week. It’s really hard to defend
something that may have happened over 15 years ago. It’s kind of like fighting
a war where you don’t know the enemy … or the cause, for that matter. We all
witnessed a total feeding frenzy on Herman Cain. He had to be hiding something.
After all, someone said they were uncomfortable with something he may have said
over 15 years ago.
I would bet money I said something offensive to someone 15
years ago. The difference, there was no money to be gained by uttering those
powerful words, sexual harassment. To me, unless Justin Beiber turns out to be
Herman Cain’s love child or someone has videos of Herman dancing with someone’s
panties on his head, I don’t believe it. I have followed his career and
listened to him for too long to believe this is any kind of pattern. Sorry
media. There will be no lynching tonight.
That‘s not even what went horrifically wrong in my Twilight Zone weekend!
Again, sorry media. We all expected you to try to make this a juicy story. You
are so predictable these days. Facts don’t matter. Well, 30 seconds of facts
followed by 20 minutes of speculation.
What totally blew me away was the
coverage of Saturday night’s debate between Herman and Newt!
What?
There was a
debate?
Yes, and it had about 20 Oprah style AH HA moments…..
It was an hour
and a half of total brilliance and discussion about how to move America
forward. Real numbers. Real details and an honest conversation of where America
is and what it will take to move it forward. It even started out with a basic
explanation of entitlements with easy to understand graphs so that the audience
had a basic understanding of the facts.
After witnessing what I thought was the
most brilliant hour and a half of television since the whole political cycle
started, I woke up Sunday excited to watch the media coverage and the pundits
discussing the issues raised.
What did we get?
Virtually nothing.
All the press
reported was that Herman had anger issues with the liberal media and they proceeded to jump back on the harassment issue in
the Q&A time after the debate. Granted, FOX had Chris Wallace to discuss
the debate, although he admitted he was watching football and didn’t see the
whole thing. Yep, that’s when I hopped up on my proverbial rooftop and started
screaming.
I have come to the conclusion, the media doesn’t really want peace and
prosperity in America. They really don’t want these problems to be solved. That
would be bad for ratings. So here I sit on the rooftop screaming. There is a
bit of a difference in this living nightmare. I do see a few others on their
roof tops too.
The view is much clearer up here.
Here is the link to the debate if anyone cares to watch it and join me on the
roof.
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fshar.es%2Fb9P5v&h=XAQEycwBSAQEL0wc8YcDkF80c9O6fFptPPgbYX84tFBLDzQ
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