Several weeks ago, I wrote a story about lincoln logs. Last week, while playing with my 3-year-old grandson trying to erect a lincoln log house, I watched him as he tried to fit the logs together. He kept trying to put a flat-sided log into a grooved space and couldn’t make it fit. I decided to watch him try to figure it out. He struggled with it for several minutes, then threw his hands up and said, “this is serious.”
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The Glaring Omission Of Talk About Freedom In Political Speeches (Issue 75)
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After the flurry of daily news about the contest between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama subsided, it seems a large percentage of the news bulletins is about remarks made about each candidate, their supporters, advisors, friends and enemies.
Quoting from George Orwell’s 1984 “We shall squeeze you empty, then fill you up with ourselves.”
Someone makes a derogatory remark about a candidate and the news, morning noon and nite, talks about it. Then the person who is the object of the remark responds and that is hashed out over and over on all the news stations. It dies down in a couple of days, then someone else makes some remark about the other candidate, and that’s repetitious news for a day until he responds and the spin begins about his response. Over and over in the past several weeks it’s the same thing—derogatory remarks about first one candidate, then the other, and their cutesy retorts and repetition.
It’s a race in a game play to see who can get the most news coverage about creative news seeking. The presidential race seems reduced to see which can get the most notice over remarks about him and his response to those remarks. As I’ve tried to keep score, I think Obama is ahead because he seems to have ticked off so many preachers. Like a bunch of teenagers fighting back and forth, they attempt to make news by “distancing” themselves from the remarks made about them and to them. Until the next day when more crop up and the beat goes on.
I’m beginning to suspect it’s all pre-planned for headline grabbing. The old saying, “there’s only one thing worse than being talked about and that’s not being talked about” seems to be the underlying notion behind all this useless, boring news seeking, which is tantamount to back fence gossip.
With an expensive war going on, the dollar being devalued, people losing their jobs and homes, struggling to pay for gas in their cars, aliens crossing the borders, fires burning out of control, severe weather destroying thousands of lives, homes, crops, property, and food prices soaring, the two candidates running for the highest office in this land spend more time bickering back and forth about who’s saying what about whom.
If it were not for the seriousness of the matter it would be downright ludicrous. They are diddling and fiddling while Rome burns.
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Apologies And Bickering Of Presidential Candidates (Issue 65)
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