Aww the mainstream media....you really got to love them. With their total insistence that "the cornerstone of a free democratic society is a free media" ,their constant hiding behind the First Amendment, and their eliteist attitude, they do make life in this country very interesting. We can sit here all nite and list the lies and distortion of facts that make up "responsible journalism" in the mainstream media, but, instead, I listed the most significant. So get out your Jason Bryer pens and your Stephen Glass notebooks and get ready for a bumpy ride through the world of "journalistic integrity". See why those two words are a bigger oxymoron than "military intelligence".....

  Take Tuesday's elections for example. Last week the msm (main stream media) had the Democrats winning the House and making significant gains in the Senate by a landslide margin. Now, following on the heels of the Kerry gaffe and the NY Times report that Sadaam Insane was a year away from having a nuclear bomb, nothing is certain anymore. Oh they are still trying to keep a stiff upper-lip, or maybe a stiff upper keyboard, but their reporting is now shaky, at best. If the truth be known, I think they sound alittle bit nervous about tomorrow's outlook. What if they are wrong? What if they, again, misinterpreted the American electorate?

  For the MSM being wrong is nothing new. Take the last three elections. In 2000 they tried to call the election for Al B.Gore before all the votes were in. Then with egg on their faces, they had to declare that the election was still up for grabs. After all that work they did trying to get Al Gore elected, too. Who could forget the campaign stop in Iowa with Al Gore and the poor, sweet, little old lady who had to collect tin cans to pay for her medications.  MSM response was swift and predictable.  Akin to their annunciation in 1994 that a Republican Congress would cause the death of children and old folks, they again described in lurid detail how Mr. Bush's tax cuts would destroy the elderly.  What a shame when we found out that the little ol lady had a wealthy son who told the country that he had offered on many occasions to pay for his mother's meds but she refused!

  In 2002, they predicted the Democrats would keep control of the senate and Tom Dashle would stay Senate Majority Leader. So where's ol Tom today? Cooling his heels in South Dakota, while his party is still the minority in the Senate.

  In 2004 the msm went into hyper-overdrive. We all remember what happened. The love affair with Howard Dean, until he went ballistic at a campaign rally, then they fell in love with John Kerry, trying to anoint him as the reincarnation of John Kennedy. It was so bad in fact, that, two days after he was elected at the Democratic National Convention, the msm went out and bought millions of bottles of Heinz Ketchup, just to show they cared.  Then there was the way they purposely ignored the allegations by the Swift Boat Captains about Kerry's military record while Dan Rather and CBS gleefully produced erroneous documents about Bush's military record. Heck, it didnt take a rocket scientist to see that those documents were produced on a PC using WordPerfect. Only a bunch of non-journalistic bloggers on the Internet. You remember the Internet, thats the thing Al Gore invented.

  They continue today with their slanted and biased reporting on the War on Terrorism and in particular, the war in Iraq. They continue to ignore the progress made in Iraq and the Iraqi people's steady march to democracy. Cindy Sheehan and her anti-war group are the new heroes of the Republic. Lost in all the anti-Bush rhetoric is the positive economy, gas prices falling, Dow Jones hitting new heights, and, most important, America is safer than it was 10 years ago. More importantly, lost in all the rhetoric is the fact the Democrats have no policies or plans to keep another 9/11 from happening, again.   All they want to do is win, then they'll figure out what to do.  Sleep well tonite knowing that!!!!

  I guess I can understand why they do what they do, tho. The MSM is stuck in a sixties time warp, just like John Kerry. They wander around DC looking under every rock trying to find the smoking gun like Woodward and Bernstein did. They get themselves embedded with US troops so they can find those My Lai massacres and attrocities that supposedly happened in Vietnam. These are the things that Pulitzer Prizes and ratings sweeps are made of.  I guess it must be the instant gratification that a couple of million people believe the lies you tell and are now gonna make you a rich person that drives them.  Sure couldn't be their pursuit of the truth.
  
   I do wonder one thing tho. The main stream media has called it wrong three elections in a row. Is it possible that the American electorate listens to what the media says it outa do, then goes out and does the exact opposite? If that be the case, then the Democrats have set themselves up for one major let-down tomorrow.

   If that happens, it'll be interesting to see how the media spins another Democratic loss.