Tuesday, January 29, 2008
What's a raging moderate?
In my case, a raging moderate is someone who is fed up with the political state of this country. Over the past generation we have become dominated by extreme right wingers on one side and extreme lefties on the other. Both sides seem interested only in what is in their short term best interest rather than what is right for the country. Media outlets like O'Reilly and Limbaugh on the right and Air America on the left have had a lot to do with causing this. But the American people themselves are mostly at fault. The rise of a zillion cable channels followed by the blogosphere has allowed every possible point of view to be heard. In may ways that is a good thing. But it also has a terrible downside. Too many folks get their news fix (or think they are getting it) by tuning in Bill O'Reilly every night. Lots of others turn on Keith Olberman and rejoice as he blasts "Billo" every night. People, neither one of these shows is news. They are both opinion!! Whatever happened to getting the news from a reasonably objective source and then making up your mind?? There is entirely too much of first developing a political point of view and then filtering every current event through that point of view. There isn't nearly enough of listening to both sides carefully before making up one's own mind.
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