WE Decide What's Fair And Balanced!

First, it was Fox News's Major Garrett with his ballsy, "What took you so long?" comment aimed at Obama in reference to his hesitation on addressing the situation in Iran. The worst part? Our very favorite SoS Hillary Clinton practically begged Obama to address it in the first place; credit given where credit is due. All of a sudden Dear Leader is "shocked and appalled" at the violence in Iran, yet was quick to jump on the Communist bandwagon with brothers Chavez and Castro when it came to Argentina.

Now, we have far, far leftist Helen Thomas of the Hearst Corporation and Chip Reid of ABC News grilling the unbearably boring and speech-impaired Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on the "heavily controlled" media. Gee, ya think? Media control is nothing new, and it doesn't take rocket science to figure out it leans to the far left. What I do wonder, however, is if this instance of "lashing out" is not a form of media control in and of itself.

Has anyone here ever heard of democracy? You know; freedom of speech, Constitutionalism, freedom of choice, people's votes matter, etc. Obsolete stuff, I know. An issue has been brought up about this by a colleague of mine about whether this wasn't set up by our very own administration in order to fool the people into believing there was still freedom of speech in the media. We all know how far left Helen Thomas leans; who would've thought this woman would have said such a thing?

Put on your tinfoil hats, folks, but you have to wonder what's going on here. Since when have you heard of any sort of real dissent being nationally televised, and better yet, broadcasted for everyone to see? At first, I was both shocked and elated to see this little old woman make such a big splash. However, after my colleague's comment and upon re-examination of the video, I think he makes a very good point.

Since when are we to trust anything the mainstream media shoves down our throats? Are we all falling victim to a classic case of confirmation bias, and since it falls into line with our own ideology; we believe it? That's up to you. I urge you to think out the box on this one, you may find yourself thinking twice...

Mark Sanford Cheats On His Wife - Who Cares? Since When Have Politicians Been Honest?

But firstly, what governor, in their right mind, goes missing for seven days without so much as an alibi? He should've known he was in the spotlight for daringly not accepting stimulus money, the least he could have done was announce where he was going and why. Public figures tend to cover their tracks before they end up disappearing; especially politicians.

All in all, though, who really cares? Are there any politicians that are decent? Who are they? Where are they? The only credit I can give Sanford is that it didn't take too much coercion for him to come out with the truth. I also think it was fairly sickening that he did this over Father's Day weekend; a slap in his family's face. Most importantly, however, he has brought extra shame on the state of South Carolina. Sanford was a possible presidential candidate for 2012, but knowing how those kinds of things go these days, his adulterous and amoral actions may actually prove to help him!

Here's a video of Mark Sanford being a politician...




Yea, people are surprised...and stuff. Yea.

The only thing I can be mad about here is the stark contrast between the way Democrats like John Edward and Bill Clinton were treated compared to the way Governor Sanford has been lambasted. As immoral and audacious as what he did may be, the same people who were saying that Edwards' and Clinton's affairs were "personal business" are the same ones who are crucifying Mark Sanford upside down and cannibalizing him. Did you really expect anything different? Sanford is treated this way because he's a straight, white, male conservative, make no mistake about it.

We're not witnessing anything new here, and I'm genuinely sick of hearing about it. A politician cheats on his wife; big whoop. He's annihilated in the media because he's a conservative. Yet more surprising news! Sadly, little issues like this, as well as Jacko's death, are the main things the American public insists on concerning themselves with while another enormous bill is passed under the door that is going to hit the majority of Americans very hard.

Smokescreens, lies, adultery, media hypocrisy and more shady antics from Washington? Color me surprised.