The last several years have been hard. You get your hopes up, only to have them dashed. It gets to a point where you are afraid to have hope anymore. But once in a while, something extraordinary happens.
A word is spoken, a truth revealed which should have been apparent, and your whole outlook changes. For me, this occured watching Countdown with Keith Olbermann last night.
Hope walked back into my heart.
It wasn’t the facts that he used. I’ve heard many of the same things said on other blogs and discussion groups. It was the passion in evidence. And it worked. I felt that emotion stir in my battletorn psyche. It was hope. I hope. I HOPE!
Example #1: Rush Limbaugh’s appearance on the CBS Evening News. Limbaugh appeared in a segment called ‘Free Speech’. Here is a quote from it (h/t to as always Media Matters for the info):
But some Americans, sadly, not interested in victory, and yet they want us to believe that their behavior is patriotic. Well, it’s not. When the critics are more interested in punishing this country over a few incidents of Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay than they are in defeating those who want to kill us, when they seek to destroy a foreign surveillance program which is designed to identify those who want to kill us and how they intend to do it, when they want to grant those who want to kill us U.S. constitutional rights, I don’t call that patriotic. Patriotism is rallying behind the country, regardless of party affiliation, to defeat Islamofascism. Patriotism is supporting our troops in the battlefield, not undermining the mission and morale.
Where, I ask you is the hue and cry about a conservative commentator on that bastion of liberalism, CBS News? Liberal media? Yeah right.
Example #2. ‘Path to 9/11′ on ABC
What hasn’t been said about this ‘Docu-drama’? It has been called false and misleading by the Airlines, Clinton and advisors , Historians , and even some conservatives . It aims to paint the Clinton Administration as bumbling and inept, so focused on his scandals at home to worry about Osama bin Laden.
So where is the outrage from the ‘liberal media’? The liberals who run Hollywood should be all atwitter about this trashing of the Clinton Administration, and the burnishing of Bush’s record of non-action. Liberal media? Hardly.
And as for Mr Limbaugh, who started this post, he has forgotten that patriotism includes dissent; in fact dissent is necessary to keep Democracy alive.
So in closing, can we finally put to rest that canard of the conservatives, our so called ‘liberal media’?
