Re: What Documentaries Influenced You Most and Why?

[David Roth Weiss] "Fox News, which brags about being fair and balanced, is perhaps as unfair and unbalanced as its gets. At least Michael Moore isn't a total unvarnished hypocrite."

Fox News is as far right as it gets and is little more than right wing party line rhetorical regurgitations. But from where I stand, I watch CNN and MSNBC and see the same left wing party rhetoric and...

Man, I'd love to have some free time in the near future to lay out a case wherein you show the extreme right wing machinations of Fox's Bill O'Reilly contrasted against the extreme left positions of guys like Lou Dobbs, Chris Matthews and Keith Oberman.

It would almost be too easy...it might therefore get boring quick as no one likes to see their idols reduced to the predictable idealogues that they are.

This country once had statesmen and people who tried (however poorly in their humanity) to do something beyond what had been done before. Now, we don't get statesmen, we get politicians and propagandists sitting as news anchors and purported "journalists and commentators," while the reality is far more banal -- no matter what channel you watch. It's why I watch the BBC News (which is also far from balanced) and the English language news from China. It's clearly a propaganda tool but at least it gives me a window into another part of the world that almost never gets discussed on American newscasts.

Only liberals think that Fox is propaganda but CNN is not. Conservatives I know can make compelling arguments as to the leftist slant of CNN and other news arms. Me, I see it as as whistling on the deck of the Titanic. What we need is a rescue party but we get the two party system instead. Both sides are like two fingers pointing at one another, and if either side got what they wanted, we'd all be screwed. As the X-Files said, the answer is out there. It's just that it was chased out of Washington long ago.

Man, I will be glad when this political year is over. Wake me up when it's finished, okay?

The increasingly apolitical and aspiring libertarian,

Best regards,

Ron Lindeboom

Remember: Burt Bacharach lied. What the world really needs now is an undo button.