5.25.2005

No Longer Even Pretending

I happened to watch both NBC Nightly News and part of Lehrer News Hour tonight and - through story after story - I noticed that everything was presented this way:

    * How conservatives want things to go
    * How things are going
    * How moderate Republicans may differ from that
    * Why this isn't making Mr. Bush happy (and that seems to matter most)
    * How much the nut wing doesn't like moderate Republicans differing from that
    * What the nut quotient will do about those moderate Republicans
Notice anything missing there, like:
    * Democrats
    * Anyone else who's not a conservative, a Republican?
    * How this affects MOST Americans?
    * Why this is a bad idea?
They're not even pretending that anyone else other than a small section of extreme GOP matters anymore. I find that not simply disappointing, but downright scary.