Average Americans, not Boyer’s fictitious and marginalizing caricature of some group of Angry Leftists, are looking for the strongest and most impassioned voices because they are impassioned and angry! They, unlike these liberal elites attacking Olbermann, attach emotions to their world views. Their lives, it seems, are in peril almost every day: a bed tomorrow; food in their stomach tomorrow; medicine tomorrow! Do you get that Boyer? You don’t. You don't believe it's possible in America. You don't see it and you don't believe it exists. But if you were there, Boyer, you'd be angry too.
Boyer and My Little Ponie ought to spend a year or two in rural Texas, or New Orleans, or Flint, Michigan. I mean really spend some time there. Have drinks at the bar. Learn a little about the people that make up America. That or get out of politics and live out the rest of their meaningless lives in an ivory tower somewhere making their fascinating points to young adoring audiences. This country is in a death spiral and it demands action.
And if I may allow myself a “special comment” in this, my humble 100th article on OpEdNews: Jealousy among journalists is as common as it is destructive to our collective goals. Journalists frequently see their peers meet success and get bitter or, as the saying goes, green with envy. I’ve seen it first-hand. To these types, only they really understand the world. Only they are the Truth. Only they are the almighty, end-all, be-all heroes of the media world. And there’s no room for anybody else.
In reality, the Left will be stronger when its adherents learn to be more selfless; when Leftist journalists learn to support each other and promote each other. If we allow ourselves to begin sniping each other for want of success, we throw away our future. We throw away our unity. We capitulate to basest human motivations and desires.
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