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I've Just About Had it with Hillary.

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There are people who follow this stuff a lot closer than I do, but as far as I understand it, ALL democratic candidates agreed that Florida and Michigan’s delegates should not be counted because of what they did with their primary dates (moving them way up).

In addition, ALL candidates removed their names from the Michigan ballot in compliance with rules set forth by the Democratic party. Except for one. Hillary.

A proposed solution in Michigan to have their delegates seated at the convention would give Hillary 59 delegates, Barack 49 delegates, and the 29 super delegates would be able to vote for whoever they wanted. That sure sounds pretty fair to me. But not to Hillary.

I’m tired of her lies. I’m tired of her bending or breaking the rules, the truth and the numbers to try to make it look like she has the lead in popular votes, and I’m tired of her speeches which don’t seem uplifting or promising to me.

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May 6th Primaries and the "News"

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I was interested in seeing what happened earlier today in the Democratic primaries with Obama and Clinton, and one thing that stood out, believe it or not, was the MEDIA. I probably could have gone to xyz.com to get results, and more than likely the updates would have been timely, but perhaps I’m a throw-back to “ancient” times – I watched the news. I mainly watched CNN, with occasional switches to the Fox News channel.

I won’t get in to all the cheap shots that Hannity took (that was the guy who was on when I got home from work around 7:00). 

At one point when I was watching CNN, Wolf Blitzer, who honestly is a guy I know very little about, really rubbed me the wrong way. He was talking to two Mayors from Indiana, and it was very close to the end of the coverage. CNN took a break or switched focus or something, and Wolf said “I want BOTH of you to stand by…”.

This is just another example of how the media in this country has devolved to a state where they feel that governmental agencies OWE them something. I get the feeling that some news teams have grown so arrogant and so cocky that in this case, Wolf Blitzer felt he had the right to tell two Mayors of one of the states of our union to wait for HIM. To be “on hold”, as it were.

Wow. I’m sure that dozens of other people have blogged or written about this, but I have a very scary thought.

How long have the news organizations been making their own news? Are we at the point where News Anchor A will purposely say something so shocking or controversial or biased that News Anchor B has no choice but to report on it? And if so, haven’t we lost the concept of reporting on what actually happens in favor of what news organizations’ SPIN is of what happens?

Gad zukes. What would the founders think of our country right now.

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Fox News is the Anus of Current Events "Reporting"

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At about 5:00 this evening I made a post on Twitter:

“Find myself anxious to tune in to Fox News to see the inevitable idiocy that will ensue after Obama’s speech.”

I was only able to watch maybe 20 minutes or so before giving up. Here are just a handful of lies, spins, and idiotic comments that I saw in just that short time.

“Do you find his explanation that he went to this church 20 years and didn’t know this was going on or being said?” -Sean Hannity

Sean Hannity either didn’t listen to or read Obama’s speech from this morning (Tuesday, March 18th, 2008), or he did and is doing what he always does – lying and just reporting whatever he wants to report instead of what actually happened. This fool just disgusts me.

“Seemed like a politician trying to rescue his career here today.” -Sean Hannity

Hmm. Unless I’m mistaken, Obama is in the lead (by three figures) in delegates for the democratic nomination. What was there to be rescued? 

“A president who isn’t willing to be ruthless at the crucial moment is a terrible president.” -Dick Morris (former Clinton advisor)

Ruthless is defined as follows: “Having or showing no pity or compassion for others.” The president of the United States should have and show no pity or compassion for others? That sounds much closer to a dictatorship than a democracy, and it sure as hell doesn’t sound like the United States of America to me.

Sean Hannity: “Michigan and Florida apparently not going to have a re-do.”

Dick Morris: “Michigan not?”

Sean Hannity: “Well, it’s looking more and more likely that they’re not going to have one.”

Do people actually buy-in to Sean Hannity? A guy that represents his opinion as fact, and re-phrases things to mean something completely different only when someone presses him?

Frank Luntz: “When [Obama] equates his own grandmother with his pastor, it’s very powerful, and I don’t think it was done quite well.”

Anybody who actually heard, saw, or read the speech knows quite well that’s not what he did. And, by the way, Frank Luntz is just a moron. Watch the video about him from Penn & Teller on YouTube.

All of this is just as I predicted in my Twitter post before I started to watch Fox News tonight: Idiocy. But what I didn’t expect was that it would be so downright disgusting. But that’s probably just because I haven’t watched Fox News in quite a while, not because it was any different tonight.

I refuse to watch any more of this sensationalist crap.