The article by Glenn Greenwald made running for election seem like a beauty pageant. My favorite line was, “They thus resolved to shift the playing field away from issues to manipulative, adolescent questions of patriotism, manliness, and personal likability.” Apparently the it is not about voting for who would be the best man for the job as much as it is about who looks like the right man for the job.  Although I agree with Greenwald I think he places the blame almost entirely on the right-wing which isn’t fair.  Everyone knows that the journalists both liberals and conservatives are guilty of playing into the “electability” reporting instead of focusing on the “real issues.” In all honestly I think to the average person a two party political system is more or less a joke. I think the average person is conservative on some issues and liberal on others I find it hard to believe that most people believe in every item on one party’s platform, which is why I think it is ridiculous to hold one party entirely accountable for the problems with reporting an election.

 

I thought Foster’s article was really interesting about how Nixon helped make a book exposing the “liberal Bias” of the media go to the top of the Best-selling charts. I didn’t even know that such a book existed but it now I know why my father goes around stating his belief that the “media is just a bunch of liberals.” It just amazes me that a book like that could make reports so afraid of being called bias that they neglect to do their job.

 

I feel the Bozell article was appropriate attacking the liberals given the prior article by Greenwald we read attacking the conservatives. Still I just don’t see the purpose of each side pointing the finger at the other whining about how the other team is unfairly smearing their name. Boo Hoo! I just want to be like get over it. I think it is inevitable that both parties are going to make ridiculous smears against each other so rather than whine about it, why not just get a good laugh out of it. Yes Obama will teach kindergarteners about sex while McCain gets rid of every single form of contraceptive. Of course this will happen right after the one who gets elected flies to his inaugural speech on a pink unicorn. I mean, come on!