Melty piles of rancid butter goo...

[abbandono]

It is absolutely unforgivable that our network news organizations will devote an entire hour of time to showing a partisan political event without any rebuttal or followup analysis.  It amounts to little more than a 1-hour infomercial for the Republican Party.  The only analysis I saw as I flipped from network to network was crap like "Arnold Schwarzenegger is showing here that he's a better politician than an actor" and "The first lady was very effective when she got personal."  Where the f*ck is the journalism?  Where is the fact-checking?

 

And, yes, I know, this same kind of crap went on during the DNC as well.  It's only now that I've reached my absolute frustration point.

 

If they're not going to have a post-speech rebuttal (as they do every single year for the State Of The Union address), then they should use those infernal "crawl" spaces at the bottom of the screen to provide real-time fact-checking and rebuttal as the speech is happening.  I kept tallying up error after factual error in those speeches (and again, the DNC had its share of errors as well, which should have been pointed out), but none of them got a mention.  And don't get me started on the logical fallacies.

 

People protest Fox News for being so partisan to the Republican Party despite claiming to be "fair and balanced", but guess what?  None of the others are "fair and balanced" either.  Balanced doesn't mean giving the two largest parties in the country free infomercials...it means giving all parties equal time, and challenging them all to substantiate their position with verifiable facts and sound reasoning.

 

I'm sure the networks will argue that giving each of our leading parties an equal amount of unchallenged time is balanced enough, but that's bullsh*t.  That's like saying if I leave a pound of butter on one side of a scale out in the sun, and I come back two months later and put another pound of butter on the other side of the scale, the scale is going to balance.

 

Grrrrr.