Where's the Liberal Press Now?
Pasadena Star-News, 20 June 1993
Pasadena Star-News, 20 June 1993The political bloodsuckers on your editorial pages did a wondrous
job of journalistic assassination on President Clinton the last
few weeks. I point out articles by Donald Lambro and Debbie Price
as particularly obnoxious examples of brainless media piling-on,
one of them mouthing tired old conservative clichés, half-truths,
and lies about the economy, and the other calling the President
"a liar" or "a clown". Whatever happened to
the good old liberal press now that we need it? It's not there;
the truth is that the press went knee-jerk reactionary a long
time ago, somewhere around the Teflon days of Ronald Reagan.
Where is the balance in this country? When do we get back to a
centrist view of issues; when do we stop raping, pillaging, and
frenzy feeding on anyone who tries to bring about constructive
change simply because it IS constructive change and not the status
quo of two or three decades ago? Most people would like to look
forward to the future, but present day conservatives look forward
only to the past.
Conservatives and Liberals. They're both bad! The difference,
though, is that the liberals have been properly chastised over
the past two decades towards a semblance of moderation, while
the conservatives who got us into this God-awful four trillion
dollar debt and allowed the breakdown of the country into squabbling
"me-first" interest groups are long overdue their come-uppance.
Bill Clinton is a centrist, trying to fix the problem, while hyenas
of the conservative dominated press try to tear him down. My only
real concern with Bill Clinton so far is that he hasn't kicked
enough conservative butt. He seems to have recently become more
successful at it, however, and I applaud the activity.
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