IT USED TO BE SO EASY – THANKS FOR THE RALLY, MR. BECK

I know, it is late and the day has been busy, but it has been a good day and although at times frustrating, it still was/is a good day.

And a few thoughts occur.
They usually do.

Last night we watched the cable coverage of the upcoming Beck rally at the Lincoln Memorial.
The libs were, of course, negative as all Hades, predicting the fostering of hate and bigotry and so on.
What right did such a person as Glen Beck have to do anything, to say anything, on such a hallowed day as the anniversary of the MLK speech?

And all this before the rally had happened.

And then the rally happened. And it was not hateful. It was intense. It was big. It was impressive. It was not hateful. It did not engender divisiveness.

It was a good thing.

And all this put us in mind of fifty years ago or so when we watched such talking heads as Cronkite and David Brinkley and Chet Huntley and a number of others which I cannot recall at this advanced hour and age.

And for the life of me, I do not remember any major ‘anchors’ who were as disreputable, biased, ludicrous, as we see today on cnn and msnbc.

Now I know there are decent folks at the above two cable stations. But there sure are some horrendous liars.

And they maintain their positions because the viewing public likes them. Or perhaps ignorantly believes them. But no, a significant part of the viewing public likes them.

That is even more depressing than the fact that they exist.
They have an audience.

God save us from our fellow citizens.

And now, decision making has become so flaming difficult.
Again, it used to be so easy.

If a bank robber, in the course of robbing a bank, blew apart the spine of a wounded bank guard who was lying helpless at his feet, the choice of a verdict of life or death would be easy.

Whether or not to build a mosque on the site of Ground Zero would be a no brainer.

The idea of a super bug being spread around the world by people seeking non life-saving cures, but rather elective cosmetic surgery would be unthinkable.

Human resource departments not being allowed to screen exconvicts from hiring short lists would be unthinkable.

A President of the United States would never allow his nation to be branded a civil rights violator.

Foreigners visiting the United States would not assert that Americans should not worry about anything because their country is so beautiful – and be praised by a newsperson as being so very wise.

And then today, at lunch, we were treated by one cable network to a film on folks who mutilated themselves for personal fulfillment – graphic films of such – unwatchable, grisley, sick, disgusting – prime time.

And then the ads for sexual performance enhancement – prime time.

Gertrude Himmelfarbe said it: “When the abnormal becomes normal, the normal becomes abnormal.”

We at The Study are very happy with the Glen Beck rally at the Lincoln Memorial.

We need it.