Who Should Be The Biggest Loser in 2010

The biggest loser needs to be the mainstream media.

The American people usually make good decisions when given the unfiltered facts. In the case of the 2008 election, the media was so committed to an Obama presidency and so opposed to a McCain presidency that Obama could have said, "I hate Jews and will support Hezbollah," and it would never have been reported; or Obama could have said something equally bizarre such as "I will bankrupt the coal industry and the cost of electricity will skyrocket under my administration" and it would not get reported.

(For those of you who get your news solely from the three major American networks, BBC, or the Associated Press--or, more accurately APObama--the last comment was actually aired by the new media on the weekend prior to the election, but the mainstream media was absolutely silent about it.)

Mainstream media has squandered its stewardship of the important, almost sacred trust given to it. All that Americans want from the media is the truth, but mainstream media was determined to keep the truth from interfering with an Obama election. Anything that would threaten an Obama presidency was buried as deeply as possible. Meanwhile, mainstream media scrutinised every possible negative on McCain and Palin.

As flawed as the McCain campaign was, it could have won the election if the media had been honest.

We'll not go into detail at this point. My point is not to demonstrate mainstream media's bias, but rather to call for its destruction.

Rush gleefully points out that Standard and Poor's rated the New York Times' stock as "junk" on the day that it endorsed Obama.

While the LA Times was withholding a video tape of a gala event fetting a Palestinian Terrorist which both Obama and self-professed Pentagon Bomber Bill Ayers were in attendance, its company was laying off 10% of its employees.

Mainstream media as an industry needs to die. As many of us as possible should dig up our news from alternative sources. Mainstream media flexed its muscle and proved that it could deliver a president. The American people need to flex its own muscle and deliver a deathblow to a morally bankrupt news media industry.

The biggest loser in 2010 needs to be mainstream media.