April 21, 2008
The Facts
CNN announced today that former Fox News commentator and White House press secretary Tony Snow will be joining CNN as a conservative commentator. Snow has bounced around over the past two decades between being a politician and a news man/commentator. The CNN web page announcing Snow’s hiring allowed reader comments. The comments vary widely. Snow is praised, accused of being far right, far left, and an outright liar.
My View
There is no question that Tony Snow is very conservative. While I don’t think he fits into the category of radical extremist far right, he certainly got close to that while employed by Fox News. But of course anyone without a biased view knows that Snow had no choice at Fox News whose politics is dictated by Rupert Murdoch, a person who has broken US laws in his efforts to promote his belief that only the extremely wealthy and wealthy corporations should rule the world.
The real problem with Tony Snow and so many other “news people” and “commentators” today is best expressed in a report by Robert Greenslade entitled “Have Conservative Talk Show Hosts Sold Out the Constitution for the Republican Party?” They have become so political and party-biased that they no longer serve the public interest. And we the people have become so party-biased that we can not see the real truth. We are too busy hyping our party and damning the other party. Even when we do hear a news person who doesn’t play favorites to either party, we seem to only hear those reports where he is not saying something good about “my” party. I often find it interesting that unless a person is continually damning a particular party that person is always accused of belonging to the other party. We just seem to have a real problem accepting that someone can see some good things AND some bad things in both parties. And we also seem to have a problem seeing that neither of the two major political parties serves the average working American. Until we the voters stop fighting each other and come together to stand against the status quo of our elected officials pandering to the wealthy and wealthy corporations, the only that that will change is that we voters will continue our downward spiral. Of course, if you are one of those gullible fools who still think pouring our tax dollars into the pockets of the wealthy so that some of that money will “trickle down” to us, then I am sure you are damning me right now.
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