Obama, Clinton, Arugula and Mindless Entertainment While Rome Burns - TheCharlieWarnerReport

Guest blogger Michael Weiskopf writes:

Last Friday, Obama fed the media machine a sound bite that they have milked for five days with no immediate end in sight..Okay, so the talking heads are just doing their job...what a commentary on the state of public discourse and the game that politics is. Patraeous and Crocker testified last week but that wasn't where the prime time ratings were, nor where the highly charged emotional issues that drive ratings and sadly, elections as well.

On the Sunday morning talk shows, only Bob Schieffer ignored the Hillary Bosnia, Obama elitist story and attempted to have some kind of meaningful discussion with Gates and Pelosi on the war.

The question of whether Obama peaked too early or whether his recent loss of momentum and the resulting pile on of pundits is going to ruin his candidacy has yet to be answered..but it is a pretty good bet that the politics of Willie Horton and the Swift Boat strategy is what is driving a desperate Clinton campaign and regardless of success or failure, the democrats are on the brink of blowing it again.

More than 1.5 billion dollars will be spent on this election before it is over....the media industrial complex is the winner as long as the process continues. As long as meaningless incidents and "insensitive statements" by any candidate are distilled into entertainment continue masquerading as news, thoughtful voters yearning for meaningful discussion of issues of real consequence are the losers.