Soap Box

There was a time when we worried more about what the media printed and broadcast but now the problem is just as serious about what they do not print or broadcast.

Large swaths of meaningful news are short shifted, colorized or completely omitted, so much that if the mainstream media is your only source of information, significant events come and go and you'll never hear about it, or if you do, the view you were presented with is so one sided you never get a clear picture of the story.

I saw a piece on ABC Evening News the other night that was basically a commercial for Obamacare. They had found a man whose only source of insurance was obtained under the Obamacare system and it was touted almost as if it was the savior of the common folks, they even showed a picture of Obama doing one of his benevolent smiles.

Even though the man said that he had voted for Trump and would do it again, the ABC folks were determined to make it a story about how wonderful the Obama administration had been for the country.

Of course, there are going to be cases where Obamacare benefited some people, but flip the coin over and also tell about the millions who have lost all of their medical coverage because the insurance companies are pulling out of the plan.

There happens to be two of those people in my employ who this happened to, they lost their Obamacare plan and had to come back on to our company policy.

The first ten minutes of the network evening news is usually spent nitpicking Trump and his administration's day trying to make the trivial sound significant and the significant sound trivial.

One of the biggest travesties of the Obama administration was when four Americans, including an ambassador were murdered in Benghazi.

Although the exact words "stand down" may not have been used, there were orders given that day for troops who were in the air, well equipped, who and were not allowed to land and rescue the people at the embassy.

If the media had dug nearly as hard to find out the facts in Benghazi as they have on their feckless search for some supposed Trump-Putin connection they would have found that out and by now the whole sordid mess would have been exposed.

But there again, this could have far reaching and high up implications, there are very possibly some media darlings involved and does the media really want to dig up anything this devastating on them?

One of the most horrendous crimes I have ever heard about happened less than two hundred miles from where I live in Tennessee.

It was the rape and murder of two young people, involving mutilation the pouring of cleaning fluid into bodily orifices to remove DNA and inhuman torture that took place over a couple of days.

I found out about this from a source outside the state.

Why had the media downplayed this story to this extent?

It was black on white crime that didn�t fit the media's model for social justice.

This is neither fair to the white community or the black community, human beings are human beings and when they act like depraved monsters they should be exposed as such, race notwithstanding.

Only the truth can set us free.

How much of it are we really getting?

What do you think?

Pray for our troops, our police and the peace of Jerusalem.

God Bless America

� Charlie Daniels

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