The Roar
Media’s Alarming Power
For the first time in my life, an accepted societal cog has caught my serious and now fearful attention. Here, in the land of the free, a charlatan, who enjoys our freedom of thought and expression, has been allowed to move among us with impunity from its unaccountable conduct. For too long, we have been resigned to the machinations of what we have come to accept from “a liberal media.” Today, our leniency has produced a menace with an insatiable appetite.
In hindsight, many refer to the Obama Presidency as a “product of the media.” Their lack of scrutiny, in areas other than just his citizenship, certainly greased the mental process for shedding America’s hangover from our days of slavery and segregation. The public’s exhilaration from finally being able to prove that, yes, those days are truly behind us, enabled voters of all stripes to cast careful thought and debate aside for their passion that America could elect its first black President.
While all this now taking place, it seems ironic that a media questioning of Senator McCain’s citizenship eligibility came to the forefront while they showered Obama with an automatic pass. This 2008 preferential treatment may now seem to be the harbinger of what is taking place with the up and down horse race to this early republican campaign season. Sad to say, those shades of differing treatment have now mutated into an all out assault based on innuendo and “he said, she said” references. This is not the task of a responsible and honest free press.
What we have today is an information source that trades jabs between the glitzy formats of a revolving platform of political opinion and predictions verses the usual hum-drum news casts which often centers on the despicable and/or the macabre. This conclusion may seem overboard but given the hundreds of lifting stories which surface daily, news in general depresses and it now seems to depress for a reason.
To underline this descent from the preferential to the slanderous, try to now shed political loyalties and consider the numerous Clinton allegations, which filled the spectrum from the adulterous to the criminal. Yes, even a rape charge was not sufficient for media curiosity, let alone to investigate. Need we compare then to this present investigative vim at targeting
Cain’s purity? A comparison projects our dilemma.
What is being sacrificed, is the public reputation of a man who, for some reason, answered the call of his country. Now, for just a moment, stop rushing to media conclusions and consider the possibility of innocence. Our media pundits are eager to rid this republican primary of a black conservative with a proven and widely successful career in business and also in his private life. Why? The reasons are obvious yet to be left unspoken.
We often ask the question, when faced with the choice of electing “frick” or “frack,” is this the best out Country has to offer? Well, when an true outsider enters the political fray, the insiders with their establishment power circle the wagons. Their attacks are as vicious as they are unending. What we are now witnessing, and to a degree, buying into, is the complete and vicious ruination of a man who, for all intent and purposes, would never have entered the contest with all these various women waiting to sharpen their knives.
What the various media outlets ignore is that during the time span of this last accuser, armed with her infamous “61 text messages and cell phone calls,” Mr. Cain had endured and survived a Stage Four cancer struggle. I would think this hardly is the setting for any sexual shenanigans. Also, 61 conversations averages less than five per year. The grist for a hot and heavy relationship? It is not!
Ladies and gentlemen , Mr. Cain is obviously the victim and the reasons are quite clear. Let’s rid ourselves of emotion and knee jerk reactions spurred from unsubstantiated sources. Common sense must once again be embraced for if we allow this to affect our support, “Frick” and ‘Frack” will once again be our only reward.
Jim Bowman, Author of
This Roar of Ours