Who Can The US Believe, In This Time of Change and Corruption?

Mark Foley, North Korea's Nuclear Testing, Senate and House Hearings coming within a month, and yet you almost have to be a rocket scientist in order to figure out who is telling the trust, who is looking out for the people, and/or who is just full of it and out for themselves. In a time when most households have to have two incomes, and are not in a position to sit and watch 2-4 hours of news, search the Web, or do what it takes to be critically informed, what can be done to make an informed choice? Luckily, and I use that term loosely, I am a disabled man and I have the time to look at the news for 4-6 hours a day, do some research and try to make an educated decision on things that are in the world today. You know what I have found out? Almost nothing. Even now, with me writing what I am writing to whomever is reading this, I am writing from a point of view. It is sad, and I am trying to tell the absolute truth, as I know it, but how much do I know? How do you know that you can trust me? Lastly, how do you know that where I got my information from was actually correct? You do not know, and that is bad too. However, I will give whomever is reading this, my best shot, about how the wool is being pulled over our eyes daily, and you can take it from their. Then I won't be selling my points, but I will be selling you what I saw.Starting off, I have seen the news shows (Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, CSPAN, ABC, NBC, CBS, & FREE SPEECH TV), over the last three to five days. I have watched them for about 4-6 hours of programming (like the O'Rielly Factor "Fox News", Democracy Now "FSTV", Hardball w/Chris Mathews "MSNBC", etc...etc...), plus the evening news from all of the major news channels. This is what I have found out. There are basically two to four major news articles and/or interests that are fueling the television and the Internet, when it comes to politics. They are: the Mark Foley "Page Scandal" (where he made lewd comments, emails, and IM's to 16-21 year old Pages/Helpers to his campaign/office in Washington), The War (in Iraq & Afghanistan), the North Korea Nuclear Test and what they have said about it since, and the overall one month until the election talks (for the House of Representatives and the Senate). With these four topics, and these four topics only, being the "News" for the television, Internet, and the printed press, they have knocked off the topics of the Bob Woodward Book (talking about President Bush's last three years, the war in Iraq, and what a screw up his administration is), the Bill O'Rielly talk about the "Secular progressive War Vs. The Traditionalists (spoken in his #1 best seller book, "Culture Warrior"), and finally these four stories have even made Iran, Venezuela, and their leaders take a back seat.So, if you were to watch the different cable news and world news channels, what would you here and where would the slant lie, in their coverage? Over the last two days (Monday & Tuesday--Oct. 9th & 10th), which basically sets the tone for the week in the News (barring any new "break out News", that would bump one of these stories), and I have researched especially because of the 30 day mark of the campaigns, to see where each of the television stations allegiances lie. They have broken down just like this. None are "Fair and Balanced", some are better than others, while then again some are just downright spewing hatred, biased lies, and the truth wrapped in a pretty blanket of deceit.To start off with Fox News Shows & one on CNN "Lou Dobbs Tonight" (from Bill O'Rielly, Hannity & Colmes, Brit Hume, and even "Your World with Neil Cavuto" at 4 p.m.), almost every single show started off with the North Korea Nuclear Test story. They had between five to twenty minutes of the story, people "debating/talking" about it, and then prognosticate what it would have to do with the American people. Then, there was a complete switch of gears to where the "Liberals and/or Democrats" were standing, speaking, and sound biting on the Mark Foley Scandal. They usually had two different guests on to talk about the scandal and were not completely off, with the coverage, but it was all geared towards "What is more important? Mark Foley a "no sex with minors story", or the fact that North Korea is testing nuclear material and the democrats are focusing on something different. Finally, they usually ended up with the Iraq story, grifting over the statistics, not showing a whole lot of any blood shed, and then tying it all in with North Korea, Iran, Hugo Chavez, and how easily it would be for a terrorist to get their hands on the nuclear material. Almost every show was set up this way, which is slanted away from a bad republican outcome, and how the Democrats are weak on defense and protecting our country (some going as far, as to say that some Liberals wanted the U.S. to fail across the world).The next group of the media that was a completely different side of things, came from MSNBC, ABC, NBC, & part of CNN. Those channels had an almost the exact opposite parade of "newsworthy items". They almost all (Anderson Cooper 360, Brian Williams, Scarborough Country, Jon Stewart, one of the worst, Kieth Olberman, and the list goes on) started with a five to twenty minute talk about the Mark Foley Case, with special guests, like prosecutors, old Clinton Aids, and Democratic pundits. For the full time, the whole gist of the interviews was that "Republicans/Conservatives" were all in the Mark Foley case, in a cover up. Continuing on, saying that this would hurt and cause Republican voters to either stay home, or change their votes altogether. After the Foley coverage, there was usually a switch to the Kim Jong Il, North Korean Nuclear test. However, the coverage of the nuclear test was completely different than the Fox News and Fox Channel coverage. They focused on how President Bush was at fault for not having "Bi-lateral talks" with North Korea. Also, how if the United States would have been lead, by the republican party (House and Senate), then there would have been a lot of different things coming out of North Korea. The difference in the Nuclear coverage, was slanted about 50% more towards the Democratic side, then the Fox News was towards the Republican side. There was almost a fierceness in the reporting, in the guests, and the debating against the White House, the President, and the overall Republican Party, where it lacked this against the Democratic party on Fox (on Fox, it was more like they were "sneaking their coverage past you, rather than blaming and having an "in your face" type attitude).Finally there was the Link TV, BBC, and the Free Speech TV coverage. Although they do not have the "regular" programming that they bigger networks has, there are a handful of shows that appear regularly and are not documentaries. Democracy Now, Mosaic (a handful of reports of newscasts, that lasts thirty minutes), from around the middle east "on Link & FSTV), and a handful of others like BBC News are completely brutal, in almost a socialist gone wrong experiment. From guests like Solmon Rushde, Ted Turner, and countless others that are way left of center in their political beliefs (and they do not make any bones about their beliefs), the hatred of the Bush White House, U.S. foreign policy, and both the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are more than prevalent in their programming and guests. There is rarely a word uttered, in a good, or even in a marginal way toward any of these topics. They do not have any format, like the other television stations and/or shows do, on how they lead off of their coverage. They just jumped right in, on bashing the United States, the President, any of our allies, and anything that is not completely slanted, if not laid completely down, toward the left and leftist ideals. There is really nothing else to say about this set of channels other than they lean toward Canadian Socialism, Pro-Abortion, no war/pure peace, and stand for just about anything that America is against, and vice versa. Amy Goodman, the host of "Democracy Now", is a feminist on the war path. Who crushes anyone that is in her way, talks over hosts that have her on their shows (like Christ Mathews, on Hardball), and on "Democracy Now" bellows her own beliefs and clouded judgments for all to here. However, she is the first person to ask for money, on their frequent pledge drives, powered by the Internet and far left supporters. Out of all of the things I have described above, the research that I have done, and the "lens" that I am looking through, when I do watch these shows, channels, and speakers (like I do most nights, to keep a good base on what is coming into my mind, mixed with the books and Net articles I read), I can only urge you to do what only one channel urges you to do. The Fox News Channel says, and I will agree with this principle: Do not believe me, look, read, and research for yourself. The times that we all live in are tough, and they require educated decisions. A constant influx of problems, information, and subjects are being pushed at you in a variety of different ways. All of those ways are steered towards you looking at a given point, subject, and/or article from the speaker's point of view. At this moment, if you are reading this, you have read something that is factual. It is factual through what I believe in and think. However, it is up to you now, to go and investigate and make your own decisions, on what I just typed, what the TV just said, and whatever you read, hear, or listen to. If not, then you are just a puppet on the strings of a media, political, and financial master that has no options, but what they give you.