Manns Medium

Listening to the expert pundits and journalists on cable news, it appears that the recent attacks by President Obama on what Mitt Romney has been allowed to say is being viewed as tainting the oath of office or staining the office.   Some say that the recent vitriol regarding Rev. Wright, Food Stamp President, not an American at heart, birthers, high school and college transcripts and so much more are Tea Party backed and a “dog whistle” to those who harbor a deep resentment of the first African-American president.   I say that if that is truly the case, then the same must be said by the media as well.   Simply put, the reason behind many speaking of the whistling is that those doing the whispering are doing so without regards to the facts.   It is also combined with distortion of what really is happening but what about the media and friends of the media.   Politicians distort the truth and many viewers rely on the media to ask the questions and demand clar...

Anyone who follows politics but may not be a fanatic should know Senator Dick Lugar and how he was never afraid to compromise for the betterment of this nation.   He had the letter “R” beside his name but he was not as divisive as all those who now have that title.   Talking about someone who stuck to his principals but could find way to move this nation forward without compromising those principals, there was none better than he. All this changed when Richard Mourdock plainly spelled out that his and those who backed him idea for bi-partisanship means Democrats coming to their view.   Image the entire Federal Government working toward voters’ depression, revoking women’s rights, dismantling the Department of Education and so many other scary ideas.   We will no longer have a government for and by the people but a government vying for the needs and wants of their largest money donors. The saving grace is that the Republican/Tea party may have really over ste...

Ever since this president was sworn in, there have been those who will stop at nothing but to oppose anything and everything that he says and does.   It is not so unexpected but it still is bewildering.   The newest media frenzy is over the anniversary of the death of Osama bin Laden and decenters are given a microphone and all the time they need on every channel to roar.   The sad part of it is, many of them may have more at stake than this media mass are interested in finding out. John McCain says that the Obama Re-election Team was wrong for politicizing the death of bin Laden but many refuse to remind people that John McCain ran on having the knowledge and expertise to find and “get” bin Laden.   So was that politicizing it then or does McCain get a mulligan?   Ed Gillespie repeated close to this take but I do not remember him stepping to the microphone and declaring it off-limits when George W. Bush and Dick Cheney was going around bragging about ke...