Around The Corner?

The media continually reports as news those that whine about the liberal media. As a result they lean further and further to the right. It takes a simpleton to believe the ultra-rich multi-national corporations that control most of the media would take a self-flagellating editorial stand. Like any large business they prefer corporate privilege over individual rights and protections. Of course they're going to help paint an inaccurate picture of a liberal press. The more conservative they can be to make up for their publicized lie of liberalism, the better for their ultimate bottom line. Like all things cowardly, I mean conservative, it will work wonderfully in the short term. In the long term they will ultimately destroy themselves.

Colbert comes out and calls both the media and the president for their failures with searing satire. Reams them unmercifully. What has the mainstream media come up with so far? "Oh, it wasn't funny." Well, it was to most everybody but them. Mostly they simply aren't reporting it. Their biggest and most repeated justification is that Colbert was unbalanced. He picked on the president too much, and not enough on the press. Another lie -- the press was savaged equally. Denying it, doesn't make it so. The media suddenly sounds just like the white house, stand behind the biggest lie you can make up, until the stupid americans take it as gospel. It can only work so long. Eventually the message is received subliminally and people get to feeling their government and media believes them to be slothful idiots. Once that message has been received it can't easily be taken back. It happens under the covers, and there is no way to quickly turn around that sort of intuition. The question I ask is how close are we to that realization?

The president can walk off in a huff. The press can pretend they weren't really attacked. When the lies and blatant spins are fed to us, the fat-assed sleeping giant couch potato, the constant subliminal message from the rapacious corporate/conservative machine edges us closer to the tipping point. It happens over and over in history. The mind is a wonderful thing, and every lie is perceived and stored away, and once the threshold is broken it can't be put back. The hymen is broached. Pandora's Box is splintered. It is the lovely truth about power and corruption. Just like their poor relations, the petty criminals, every time they get away with something they feel more brilliant and invulnerable.