Free What?


Free What?

If questions still linger about our free press,  they have all been answered through this slanderous media lynching of Herman Cain.  Whether one is Democrat or Republican, liberal or conservative, America must finally recognize that along with education, our news and informational sources are now in the governmental tank!

War used to be truth’s most feared adversary.  Senator Hiram Johnson, way back in 1917 said, “The first casualty when war comes is truth.”  This became the subject for Phillip Knightley’s extensive essay entitled The First Casualty.  I mention this solely for the need to prioritize the need for truth’s essential worth in reporting the news.

During the days since my last presentation, where I tried to make light of an anonymous question of  “gesturing,” news reports have upped the ante for Presidential campaigning.  Now, we have a face and a name, along with unpleasant charges from supposedly a quid pro quo offering by candidate Cain.  While reports center upon this unsubstantiated charge, many questions remain ignored by our army of investigative reporters.

As a curious bystander intent upon maintaining election integrity, bells and whistles chimed for me with the accuser’s hometown of Chi-town.  What a coincidence!  Also, it seems that Ms. Bialek imitates our federal government’s spending habits as she seems to live at a level not commensurate with her income.  This, along with her fickle work record and her 1991 personal bankruptcy action, should arouse curiosity as to her current living quarters being in the same building as Mr. Axelrod, of the Obama Administration.

After failing to ignite a public condemnation from charges of improper or harassing “gesturing,” our media sleuths have now located Ms. Bialek, after fourteen years, who now feels the need to set the record straight and be desirous of a confessing Mr. Cain.  Ms. Bailek’s ability to quell her nagging conscience for those fourteen years is remarkable in itself.  I remain curious as to just what caused her sudden reformation?

Ms. Bialek asks America to believe that based upon some previous and inconsequential meeting, she flew to Washington and reserved accommodations in the hopes of contacting Mr. Cain for possible employment?  This, on the surface, seems to be an expensive long shot.

Her description of what took place combines fantasy and romanticism into a well rehearsed presentation which just doesn’t quite jive with reality.  Her version relates that Mr. Cain “upgraded” her room to that of a suite and that they enjoyed drinks prior to going to another location for dinner.  Excuse me but if all this were true, and given that Ms. Bialek is not some naive school girl, either she is a fabricator or she is an extreme fabricator.  Who in their right mind would go to dinner with the expectation that the evening would end after desert?

Given Ms. Bialek’s background, from both a financial and personal perspective, possibilities abound that notoriety and some future payday may play heavily into her sudden need for Mr. Cain’s accounting.  Despite all these circumstances and inconsistencies, how is it that not one media pundit hesitated with their anti-Cain venom?  It now seems that the pedestal reserved for Ms. Bialek is all for the ruination of America’s first black conservative presidential candidate, pure and simple.

Our nation’s media sources and individual talking heads have shown their intentions and exhibited a vendetta styled assault upon what many view as Obama’s most serious threat.  Obviously, this comes from Mr. Cain’s equal racial footing and subsequent appeal to the black voter.

While this type of journalism may well define the demise of what was a “free press,”  it is the typical American reader and  audience viewer who needs to recognize this for what it is.  If not, then we have truly lost our desire and need for seeking truth.  All without having a war to fight.

Jim Bowman, Author of

This Roar of Ours

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