It really is shame what some “News” organizations will pass off as news these days. I mean, really a shame. And the real problem lies, not in the fact that they do it, but that it isn’t a surprise when they do. It’s expected behavior now, for CNN, MSNBC, and FOX (faux) News to report on Britney Spears’ haircut, and Paris Hilton’s < insert alcohol related misstep here >, and the up-to-the-second whereabouts of Anna Nicole’s corpse. Thanks in no small part to the Associated Press.

It’s insane. :run:

And it gets even worse when you throw in the grand-daddy of insane topics - politics. It is amazing that politicians can get away with e-molesting minors for years when we know about the drugs that their brother-in-law’s mother’s cousin did, including which nostril they ingested it through. Somehow, and through some fault of my own… I know about bush’s college parties, I know his daughters’ criminal records, I know the occupations of countless parents of politicians and I know how their parents came to the United States, what obstacles those long-dead people had to overcome, and probably how they died. Why do I know all of this, because someone, somewhere, thought the information was news-worthy, and decided to spend part of their short life on this planet writing about it.

All of this has led to a well prepared media that is ripe and ready for the circus that is Democratic Presidential Hopeful Barack Obama. I swear, I now know more about Obama’s family genealogy than I do about my own. This morning, both CNN and Fox had a story posted on their front page with this headline: Obama’s White Ancestors May Have Owned Slaves 1 2

Oh really? That might be interesting… wait… no… :whocares:

The truth is, I shouldn’t know this. I really shouldn’t know this stuff, because it doesn’t matter. Nobody should care about this. This stuff is posted as news about a man that is running for the highest office in the country. Apparently it is pertinent information that serves to make your decision a more informed one when you vote next year. Only one problem, it doesn’t. Nothing in these kinds of stories tell you anything about how he will lead the country.

You can’t possibly glean anything from that information that would tell you about his tax proposals, his budgeting ability, his military strategy, his energy/environmental/business/health care policies, his propensity for lying, his hunger for power, or his ability to get things done. The only reason this man is being scrutinized is because he’s running for President. But why, oh why, are we scrutinizing his ancestors? If you are going to dig deep, please give us something that will truly inform the public, and make their decision at the polls an intelligent one.

For, if this is the subject matter that voters are armed with when they make their decisions we are truly in dangerous territory. Seriously, if this is the kind of information that you base your vote on, if this really does help swing your vote in one direction or another, if you actually use this kind of story to make your decision, then do the country a favor… Please don’t vote.

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