American media: Accept John Kerry’s challenge!

American media: Accept John Kerry’s challenge!

Posted on August 8th, 2011 by Ricky Sprague

Our country is clearly suffering from severe dysfunction. The economy keeps getting worse by the day. Unemployment numbers are sky high. The stock market is falling. Our debt has never been higher. Even under the rosiest scenarios, our deficits are projected to get significantly worse. We are entangled in who knows how many wars against people in the Middle East.

But, at least we can all take solace from the fact that the president still thinks we’re a “triple-A” country, all the way.

There are a number of solutions to the problems afflicting our country. Sadly, many of them are completely crackpot. For instance, Democrats and Republicans claim that we should keep doing what they’ve always done, and our problems will — um, be solved. For the entirety of my life, we have had Democrats and Republicans in control of our government, doing what they’ve always done, and yet, somehow, things have only gotten worse with each passing year. These two political parties have an uninterrupted string of failure on a massive scale, and yet, “the media in America” insists on treating them and their ideas as if they’re legitimate.

This is dangerous, and it’s causing harm to our country.

I’m not the only one who feels that way. Recently, that great statesman John Kerry asserted that the mainstream media had fallen down on its job. He said,

And I have to tell you, I say this to you politely. The media in America has a bigger responsibility than it’s exercising today. The media has got to begin to not give equal time or equal balance to an absolutely absurd notion just because somebody asserts it or simply because somebody says something which everybody knows is not factual.

It doesn’t deserve the same credit as a legitimate idea about what you do. And the problem is everything is put into this tit-for-tat equal battle and America is losing any sense of what’s real, of who’s accountable, of who is not accountable, of who’s real, who isn’t, who’s serious, who isn’t?

Mr. Kerry is correct. For too long, the mainstream media has given too much weight to the ideas presented by Democrats and Republicans. These people have been absolutely 100% wrong about every single thing they have ever done. They are dangerous, frivolous morons who have run the country into the ground. And yet, there they are, offering more alleged “solutions” to the problems that they themselves have created.

The media needs to accept Mr. Kerry’s challenge to take greater responsibility. Whenever a politician or someone in the government states that we need another stimulus, another bailout, we can’t live without this program or our country will fall apart without that, we simply have to start some new war or escalate an existing one, the mainstream media needs to either (a) ignore that person, because someone who has been wrong about everything for the entirety of his career should not be rewarded with any kind of attention, or, (b) point out the fact that these people have been wrong, consistently and completely wrong, about everything they have ever done and said.

America truly has lost a “sense of what’s real, of who’s accountable, of who is not accountable, of who’s real, who isn’t, who’s serious, [and] who isn’t.” How else can you explain the fact that the same people keep getting elected, despite their uninterrupted string of total, abject failure? How else can you explain John Kerry’s presence on a television program, pontificating on our country’s problems? The burden is on him, and those of his kind. Until they can show that the ideas they’re proposing are actually legitimate solutions to our problems and won’t just bring more of the same failure, waste, corruption, and pain, they should be treated dismissively.

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Ricky Sprague occasionally writes and/or draws things. He sometimes animates things. He has a Twitter account and he has a blog. He scripted this graphic novel about Kolchak The Night Stalker. He is really, really good at putting links in bios.