After watching a huge national disaster on the Gulf Coast, a propensity to golf while the world falls apart, a dearth of press conferences, a slew of risible verbal faux pas, a year of ramming unpopular legislation down the peoples’ throats, adopting and accelerating all of the aspects of the current War on Terror Man-Caused Disaster that were considered so noxious three years ago (including every single element of the Patriot Act), and watched epic corruption up to the White House Door, I thought  “When will our media – which was so punctual about “investigating” each of these things before 2009, get on the stick.

Victor Davis Hanson says have no fear!

Somewhere around the millennium, a new style of aggressive, public-interested, and astute reporter began sermonizing in print, advising on the Internet, and lecturing us on television. At the time I mistakenly assumed that reporters were too often partisans who were creating new, almost impossible standards of probity in order to embarrass conservative opponents: they wanted Republican scandal first, news second. But now, I see that they were simply laying nonpartisan new ground rules for the Bush administration so that they could later prove their integrity and professionalism when a member of their own faith would come into the new crucible of public examination. There was never, you see, a hate-Bush media. So we will shortly see that now as they unrelentingly turn their scrutiny on Barack Obama and his legion of ethical and competency lapses.

Onward and upward!

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