The Dementia of the American Popular Media

On 8 January 2011 some worthless maggot tried to assassinate the congressional representative for southeastern Arizona. She survived, although in her current state she will be in recovery for such a long time that the Democrats, her party, will need to replace her.

Six others were killed before bystanders disarmed the assassin. Among the dead were a nine-year-old girl and the chief Federal judge for Arizona. And then there was the mother who shielded her daughter, the representative's page, from the assassin's bullets and yet lived.

And yet, we hear relatively almost nothing about the other victims, living or dead, in the popular media. It is rather shameful, I think. The judge was by far the more important official; the page's mother was truly a hero; and the child's death would have gotten more attention under other circumstances.

But no: The popular media has concentrated their focus on the representative. Why is that? Yes, she was the assassin's intended target. But I think the real reason is that the representative is a woman. And not just a woman: The representative is one of them — whoever they are.

Worse, the popular media has found an unlikely cause of the attempted assassination — overheated political rhetoric — and a mouthpiece in a low-grade local official. The media monkeys are using these to chew away at the First Amendment, forgetting that the First Amendment is responsible for their jobs.

And let's not forget the plugs for tougher gun laws, whittling away at the Second Amendment. Are there any more parts of the U.S. Constitution those ignorant berks would like to chop away at?

The assassin himself is a wannabe skinhead; but skinheads are so common, so un-newsworthy, I suppose. So the popular media blows the assassination from a local issue into a national one, evidently to keep their careers going, certainly to keep drawing those paychecks, while providing the pretext for others, one day, to deprive the popular media of their careers.