I didn’t know what cable news television was until I took
our state utility truck in for repairs during the late 1990s. Up until that time I’d always watched news on
my rabbit ears 19 inch TV. Dealerships had big screens in their waiting
rooms with something new to me – cable television. Oprah, Judge Judy, and Dr. Phil were big at
the time, but I didn’t care anything about that fluff except I liked the way
Judge Judy took no guff from those who appeared before her. Cable news was longer and better covered and
it was glamorous. Case in point: FOX
News and its stable of blonds. It was a
time when men were men and women were actually attractive. I remember Gretchen Carlson, a pioneer the
employment of beautiful women in cable television. Rupurt Murdock knew what he was doing. Of course, that’s sexist, but sex sells.
On the other hand there’s MSNBC: transgender this and LGBT that. I have enough trouble getting past the
“talking with hands” mannerisms, let alone wondering if Rachel Maddow has an
Adam’s Apple. If I want to find out what
the red brigades are up to, MSNBC is the place and it’s actually fun because
they follow the socialist and communist playbook so closely. (I did a blog post on Halloween at MSNBC) Is
there anyone there who’s not a militant atheist? Who’s the almost-white chick with the braids? Stop waiving your hands and
talk slower. Those of us from the
Hustings can’t understand what you’re saying.
Perhaps we’re too simple. All we
get is that you hate white men, come from an oppressed minority, interview
wretched like-minded leftists, and get a big fat paycheck for doing it - probably
from an old white man.
CNN and Anderson Cooper are getting better. At least he has a nice looking haircut and
doesn’t tell us he’s a homosexual all the time.
Who cares? Not all the world is a
Bruce Jenner telling the world to “look at me.”
Thank you very much. Currently,
I’m sticking with Bill O’Reilly because he doesn’t hide what real people think
like the other cable channels do. Real
people know the country is irretrievably lost because they have eyes and ears
and a memory. I wish Hannity would ask
real people real questions in one of his town-halls.
He’s got the bad habit of asking only celebrities and experts. Of course, you can argue cable news isn’t
real reporting in the tradition of Walter Cronkite or Edward R. Morrow. It isn’t.
It’s entertainment and we must pay the price.
