Extreme silliness

Have you ever watched a local evening news cast in a small or smaller town?  There is always some badly dressed guy and some gushy girl and a few “technical” difficulties livening up a bunch of happy talk chatter about the weather and the local sports teams.  The  “news” personalities do this one thing – they try too hard and in so doing they make the news about them.  Their personalities; their perceptions; their self importance.

We have actually praised Megyn Kelly in the past.  Suggested she get the moderator job at Meet the Press.  We were wrong.  We have never been a fan of Chris Wallace.  We think he fits perfectly into the badly dressed guy described above.  Bret Baier?  No opinion, jury is out.  But early returns are not good when surrounded by these amateurs.

 

Put them together?  They are not ready for prime time. 

This so-called debate was not good.  In many respects.  First the platform and presentation – 10 candidates is about 5 too many.  America is not going to elect a one trick pony former Arkansas governor financed by the pro Israeli gang.  And we sure don’t need a former bureaucrat and now governor of New Jersey – a spectacularly corrupt place. (We don’t know which place is more corrupt – NJ or Illinois – but follow up Obama with Christie and you can put a fork in America.)  John Kasich is running a big state well – so maybe he becomes a potential VP candidate but c’mon – on the stage with the top four or five?  Not needed.  If one of the other 10 or 12 get the VP slot – let them debate before the election.  If one of the five falls out and someone else rises in the primaries – substitute.

Next, move away from this Hollywood media run debate platform with the giddy commentators running the show.  Past performances by Candy Crowley and Gwen Ifil should have ended the involvement of the American Hollywood media in big time debates.  They are not up to the job – too biased but mostly just too out of touch with America – too beltway limited.  We all know what ADAD is – adult deficit attention disorder.  This gang has a slightly different disorder – AADD, adult awareness deficit disorder.

A few examples of “voters matter” issues that the giddy Foxer’s never touched:

• How are you going to beat Hillary?  She is laden with baggage.  But you and your ilk never seem to be up to the job.  So, how this time?
• Debt?  Will you commit to not run for a second term if debt is higher then than now?  Is there any principle you have that you will abide by – not even run for office if violated?
• Government does not work.  Tell us specifically what bureaucracies you will close, completely and what other measures you will apply to all bureaucrats to bring their pay, benefits and pensions in line (that means lowering) with other regular, working Americans.  We want numbers and commitments.  BTW, have you ever even thought of privatizing some bureaucracies?   Do you have even one original idea or plan or concept to share with us?
• The EPA.  It just created a horrible environmental disaster out west.  What would you propose to do with the EPA?  How about a few criminal indictments?
• Will you negate Executive Order #10988?  Do you know what it is?  What it did?

Those are a few, off the top of the head.  We could offer endless specifics that are on the mind of many Americans and yet the Foxer’s prepare a list of questions seemingly vetted by the national enquirer.  This is the Republican party nominee candidate selection process – not the Hollywood media selection process.  If you sell soap and soda water, for a living, time to step back.  The situation at hand is much more important than using your “not ready for prime time” anchors to fit in a bunch of contrived one-minute Q and A’s in between advertisements for the crap they sell on Fox.  If the network can’t or won’t deliver a couple of hours without commercial interruption while we try to decide which candidate might be president for the next four years, we, the people, need to boycott the network.

There were two losers during last week’s debate.  Any American seeking to evaluate a possible Republican candidate and Fox.  One deserves being a loser; we the people do not.  We need and deserve a much better forum for our decision making process.  It appears that we are not going to get it mostly because our Hollywood media is a second and third class group of performers, all with AADD.  The ratings bonanza last Thursday night is not about the media, it’s about our desire to find a good leader, for a change.

To slightly paraphrase the Donald – it’s not just the government that is stupid.