The media is a bunch of pansy pussies with useless degrees that prove they are too scared to get on the front lines and do something. Or at least this is my assessment of the near total free card the press gave the GOP last week.

When the media got attacked by Palin and McCain they should have defended themselves (Joe Klein did, he is excused from this indictment). There is nothing biased about reporting on things. Instead they reported on whether or not they are biased. This, in addition to being a ridiculous exercise in self aggrandizement as the media now believes that they are the story, is also a waste of time.

Watching the Republican convention was like attending a lecture on logical yoga. I watched with astonishment as Mitt Romney (a governor from my hometown of Boston who while governor championed gay rights, universal healthcare, and the expansion of abortion rights, but now apparently is against all that) a man of unimaginable wealth from the upper reaches of a society none of us could ever imagine of obtaining explained that the problem with government is East Coast elites. I am from the fucking East Coast and I can tell you he is the damn East Coast elite. Mitt Romney is the sail boating, croquet playing, elite clubbing, namby pamby bullshit he spent last week attacking. Apparently my econ teacher is wrong and if A=B and B=C then C doesn’t equal A. Following in these footsteps Mike Huckabee explained that all the issues we have had in the past 8 years is due to “European Ideas.” I didn’t realize George Bush went to college in Europe!!! Yes folks, the RNC proved that at times indifference curves do intersect.

The problem is that for the past 8 years the GOP has controlled the White House and both chambers of Congress. Yes the past 2 years the congress has been democratic, so Palin’s little attack about them being the do nothing congress might have been valid except that they did many things which were either vetoed or filibustered by the Republicans. So the GOP has controlled government, A=B. Then the country went to shit and he all lost our jobs, our security, our rights, and our economy. This was largely due to actions by the government be it an expensive war following huge tax cuts or the PATRIOT Act (yes it is all capitals because it is an acronym for something it is pretending to be). So the government has created our problems, B=C. And there is of course the theme of the McCain campaign C does not equal A. The mind boggles.

Instead A apparently equals liberal government despite not actually being in charge, European ideas, the teachers union, community organizers, and of course the media. Oh the media!!! When will you learn how not to destroy our government despite a complete inability to make any governmental decisions. Forget this notion of liberal media bias. The only out and out biased media source is FOX NEWS. They are the media. They are conservative. But the media has a liberal bias. Again C does not equal A. The rest of the media gets caught up trying to prove themselves unbiased and never actually reports anything.

I heard numerous lies this past week that the media never touched on:

1)      Obama will raise taxes on the middle class. He won’t – he will only raise tax on the top 5% or those making well over $250,000 (basically Mitt Romney and Cindy McCain)

2)      Drilling for oil will reduce our dependence on foreign oil. It won’t — we only have 3% of the world’s oil supply.

3)      Drilling for oil will reduce the price of gas. It won’t — we won’t see any new oil hit our tanks for 7 years if we start drilling today.

4)      Drilling for oil will reduce the price of gas even though we won’t see it for 7 years because the fact that there will be new oil will scare prices down. It won’t because OPEC, which gives the world most of its oil, is a monopoly and monopolies set the price and they do not listen to Congress when deciding this price.

5)      John McCain is for developing alternative energy. Even if he is he has a funny way of showing it, The NYT reported last week the McCain has deliberately not voted the past 8 times for federal funding for the development of more solar and wind power.

6)      Obama is against nuclear power. He isn’t. He is for it although he probably shouldn’t be because one day we are going to destroy a part of out country with that stuff and I bet you it won’t affect Romney’s or any of McCain’s houses.

Basically folks, A does equal C. And if the media is too cowardly to point it out when attacked by the GOP then they are working in the wrong profession.

I don’t mind if the Republicans provide their own alternative vision for the future, especially if they truly want a Party that moves away from the policies of Bush. But I do mind their attempts to rewrite history and blame Bush’s errors on the very people who were trying to stop him.