Yellow Journalism

Today in every state thousands of people turned out to protest high federal and state taxes and ever increasing government spending. These protests turned out far more people than any anti-war protest had in the past four years but because the message was against what the current President is trying to do and what many states are doing which is frankly popular with the legacy media it was mostly ignored and often mocked.

MSNBC, NBC and CNN and even the White House Press Secretary mocked the people who turned out to protest the way their money is being used. We cannot ignore that the bailouts began under George Bush but President Obama for all his bluster about the mistakes of the previous administration during the campaign has not changed direction and in fact has increased spending and federal intervention in private industry.

The release of a Homeland Security report suggesting the danger of increasing “right wing radical” organization activity and the dishonest media coverage of these protests in comparison to all the attention and importance they assigned significantly smaller anti-war protest activities is not a coincidence in my opinion. This is a coordinated effort to paint anyone opposing the current state and federal trends in this nation as nothing more than wing-nuts that at best are to be ignored and at worst may be “dangerous.”

This has the appearance of a coordinated attempt to silence the message by unfavorable media coverage and mockery of US Citizens by appointees of President Obama. In my view this falls far short of conspiracy but it really smells like political coordination by much of the legacy media and the White house to mock taxpaying citizens who are exercising rights guaranteed them by the constitution.

This is just another in a recent string of very troubling events by federal or state governments. If any anti-war protests during the Bush Administration had been this large and this wide spread it would have been the lead story for weeks as smaller protests usually were. A few dozen people camping in Crawford Texas was national news for weeks if you recall. It is very difficult to look at the difference in coverage and not see the bias proudly on display now. Any illusions left that we had fair media in the United States ought to be reconsidered.