Cavalcade of Snakes

The already poorly regarded profession of journalism suffered yet another blow with the hacking scandal enveloping the Rupert Murdoch tabloid empire in Great Britain. The Murdoch catastrophe displays a rare level of predation with even the emails of a slain soldier being eavesdropped- hard to conceive that any event could darken an institution so widely held in disrepute- but this did. While what happened in London was glaring and obvious, what happens every day in America is little better if much more subtle. In America, the main stream press is no fair arbiter or even earnest advocate but a dishonest broker who attempts to conceal an activist agenda. Watching the Sunday pundit shows one sees a near constant stream of unmerited credit being given to Democrats and unwarranted blame heaped on Republicans. In some instances, even the sheen of objectivity is abandoned for baldfaced partisanship as is the case on MSNBC. But make no mistake, the side is taken and that side is the Left. NBC's anchor Brian Williams said (in)famously that conservatives see "black and white with little room for gray matter in between". No one much is watching CBS but Scott Pelley seems to veer just as far left as Katie Couric did. On ABC, George Stephanopoulos was an active member of Bill Clinton's team, Christiane Amanpour is married to Clintonista Jamie Rubin, and withered beauty queen Diane Sawyer is web to Hollywood liberal Mike Nichols. All these network talking heads slant the story to put Barack Hussein Obama in the best possible light with no benefit of the doubt ever afforded to members of the GOP. One could reach the stark conclusion from the conduct of "journalists" today that sometimes the devil's best advocate is the devil himself.