I know many of you know what I mean —about outcomes in Iowa.
I could as easily say Whew.
Re either side’s outcome.
Those corn farmers! and all the other Iowans who came out to vote: I swan!
‘Merika is not quite as ameoba-dumb as media portrayed fatuous fans of whomever — by MSM holding NO wing tips or Ferragamos of Candidates to the fire, asking NO ONE, pressing NONE about their speaking, or rather LACK of speaking knowledgably about foreign budgets, current health crises [ are you really glad we spend billions on flu vaccines that are not even 45% effective, just for starters? How about that your Rx meds are made in China with little oversight?]
The media has FAILED to question each candidate about their SPECIFIC plans for r and d for medicine and life quality, what will be done to reach and help the abjectly and perpetually poor [do people elsewhere in the nation, really believe the hills and hollers, the small towns and villages from Appalachia to Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas and more are all prospering now? Hint, the people are living in West Virginia and elsewhere in HIDEOUS poverty, with no medical care, no dental care, no money for burying the dead.] Have the candidates been vetted in depth? They have not.
The media, may be living in a fugue state re the Indian Health Services and budgets, the oil bust, the water pipes across all cities and towns in the US leaching all kinds of c into the water coming into houses, restaurants, office buildings, hospitals. What about that? Oh, Solomon of wise nothing.
And what about the continual influx of illicit drugs that kill, the lacks in FDA and USDA oversight that imperil our people, and especially, old stumping ‘trump’ not even mentioning in his newly found love of veterans– that TENS OF THOUSANDS of vets who have been at war and suffering from severe PTSD, and who have had infractions of the law such as a DUI are being STRIPPED of their medical benefits, booted out of service with dishonorable discharge after having done 2, 3 and 4 tours in the killing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and now Syria. They now have NO medical benefits, NO G.I. bill, NO hope of a decent job with a dishonorable discharge on their record. What about that?
Where the h is the Media? Marshmallow questions, feather bed inquiries, namby pamby confrontations except for Megyn Kelly and the brave souls who have gotten thrown out of trump’ette’s pep rallys. Charlie Rose questioned Sean Penn more diligently re El chapo, and used an over the top aggression– far far more than ANY MSM I’ve heard questioning men and women who have the conjones enough to say they want to be prez. The presidency is NOT owed nor owned to whomever is lobbying for votes to be king/queen of the high school prom. Popularity derby is NOT proof of anything presidential. Quite the contrary.
The presidency belongs, for our nearly 300 million people, to a statesman, a stateswoman who knows governance, meaning a person of action, influence, who realizes they are ‘president’ of the entire nation not just their faves. And to self-govern, meaning to conduct oneself with regard to controlling one’s emotions. Not faking it. BEING it, from the heart outward.
It would have been nice had MSM an idea of not ‘interviewing,’ but questioning, deeply, the actual acumen of candidates with regard to self-regulation and their knowledge of governing/ government, and how they would steer, not their wills, but the wills of the people regarding the people’s needs.
Yet, the outcomes in Iowa seem promising. Tie: Sanders, Clinton. And Trump, not coming out on top, he, the self-proclaimed Winner of Everything, sort of more like the Emperor of Ice Cream.
Stay tuned for more fisking of media for lopsided coverage and preferential treatment tilting far into the clownish, the bullying and the bellowing– and leaving substance on the cutting room floor.
The leadup to the often tiresome ‘noms’ if only because of lack of revelation and lack of hard questioning of all, is not the fourth estate’s finest hour. Not even close.
Many of us would like to see television/ cable media persons who have distinguished themselves by taking the candidates’ depth and breadth, or lack of it, seriously. It will be like oxygen into a sealed room of offal.