The overloaded mind reels to keep up with Scott Walker, Peter King and Muammar Qaddafi, the Three Stooges of this news cycle producing headline headaches that rattle our media teeth.
Do we have to keep up with debates about no-fly zones over Wisconsin by disloyal Muslim-Americans?
Today’s cacophony recalls days when you could go on an isolated vacation and come back to marvel at how little of importance you had missed by being cut off for weeks.
Do we really need to know every twist and turn of the Battle of Wisconsin? Somehow the state will muddle through, despite its clownish governor, and labor unions will survive needed cuts in budgets and assaults on their legitimacy.
Would we be deprived by not watching Rep. Peter King reduce the House’s first Muslim to tears by stigmatizing an entire Faith? (“Ask not what your country can do for you, but how you can spy for it?”)
Do we need to make the Battle for Libya into a “video game,” in Defense Secretary Gates’ words, with a no-fly zone that might make Americans feel good in their living rooms but drag us into another Middle East mess?
Opinions on these weighty matters matter, but how closely must we follow every twist and turn simply because we can? Would everything get worse if we didn’t?
These questions are prompted by hard words between Higher Powers of the media universe…
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