I commend Harwood for standing up to the absurdity of Wastler’s positions but in the end, he has made a tragic assumption. He has assumed that the PEOPLE who make up the GOP agree with the POWERS that operate in it. The truth is that they do not. The president has approval ratings so low, that it is clear that the traditional neo-conservative positions are simple not tenable any more. The politics of fear are over. Sure, you still have a handful of sheep who think that they need to trade their civil liberties for the illusion of security. There is a small pocket of people who still bow down at the altar of fear and somehow think that the people who have proven incapable of protecting us are the right ones for the job. But even those people might have a change in heart if the mainstream press would simply do their job of reporting all sides and opinions. Either way, the majority of the republican base does not necessarily embrace the neo-conservative message of killing more people. They are clamoring for a variety of opinions so they can make the best informed decision.
Instead what they get is wall-to-wall coverage of RudyMcRomney. Instead what they get is the same opinion, regurgitated over and over again by each candidate. They all want more war. They all want less civil liberties. They all turn a blind eye to the problems in this country while there eyes are focused on what other countries they can blow up. All except one, Ron Paul. He has a different message. He has a message that deviates from the script and because of that, people like John Harwood have mistakenly decided that it is the role of the press to decide whether the people of a party would want to hear and support that message. He has a message that is different from the machine and because of that people like Allen Wastler, think that they get to decide what you need to know and what you don’t. They had a press like that in the old Soviet Union once.
Allen Wastler needs to lose his job because he has decided that objectivity no longer belongs in a free and open press. Beyond that, he brags about it. He openly spits in the faces of those that he pretends to serve. The press used to be about the truth and the pursuit of it. Now it is an echo chamber for the preformed opinions of a few who would ram down the throats of the many, what they feel they need to know. They no longer care if they are persuasive because they already know they are no longer believable. They no longer care to even appear credible because they have decided what the truth is for themselves, regardless of the veracity of it. Edward R. Murrow must be spinning in his grave.
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