Useful Fools

I turned on my TV to watch the local news on the NBC stationforgetting to turn it off before NBC nightly “news” came on. Once again I was reminded of how worthless major network “journalism” is.

Many important events are happening in the world. There are many threats to America and our way of life. Americans badly need to be educated about the complexities of these events.

Instead, NBC chose to focus its “investigative reporters” on preventing a General from receiving a promotion, because four years ago a gay serviceman was killed in his command.

Is this is an important issue? The only real issue here was spiked long ago - the question of whether the military should tolerate gay soldiers in the first place! But that is not what NBC is investigating. Instead, they are going after the general for his claim that “homophobia” didn’t exist in his command, and for not adequately teaching “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell!” The article was specifically slanted towards condemning the general. It never addressed the impact of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy on the military readiness. It never examined the specific incident, whether it was typical, why it happened, and what to do about the issues of gays in the military.

Once again a major news network, rather than addressing critical issues, is pushing a very narrow leftist agenda (gays in the military) during their main broadcast, and smearing a military leader during a time of war.

Is it any wonder that conservatives distrust the mainstream media!

Thanks goodness for talk radio and Fox News!