Skunked in Philly

Here’s one for you: According to the Drudge report, the Philadelphia cops have pulled over a suspicious bus that was chock full of tarantulas, scorpions, skunks, reptiles, and assorted other creepy crawlies. The suspected target for this faunal fare: the Republican convention.

I’m sure I won’t be the only quipster to note that reptiles would probably feel right at home at a political convention.

And so would the skunks in this case, because I can’t help but notice that the convention has been soundly skunked by the media. I don’t follow politics, but the shrill, glaring, and almost rabid animosity aimed at the convention by most reporters is as obnoxiously conspicuous as a fat chick in a T-back bikini.

Two–and only two–points have been flogged during the broad convention coverage. Media Skewed Point One: the Republicans are venal because corporate cash is intertwined with the politicking.

Gee, it seems to me that the Democrats, not the GOP, are in legal dutch for crooked money raising at the national level lately. Isn’t that why Clinton money bag-man Charlie Trie copped a guilty plea for his fund raising crimes? Why yes…it certainly is.
Media Skewed Point Two: Veep candidate Dick Cheney has a “conservative” voting record, and is therefore unfit, somehow, for public service.

This is political correctness run so far amok that it almost gives me the Orwellian creeps. The presumption is that Mr. Cheney should have to “defend” the fact that he’s not a whining, Politically Correct agitator for the gay scoutmaster and welfare mother constituencies. Is PC such the status quo that traditional American values are now “extreme”? Evidently so.

It’s more than a trivial matter of political context. It shows you the awesome power of the media, which forms issues by not only presenting supposed answers, but by specifying the very questions asked.

The more I witness these sleazy and shadowy media machinations, the more I take interest in this election–which is no small point to me, since I hate politics. But the point the media seems to be making is that any essence of traditional American values is somehow shameful. I’m pretty much sick of hearing that point, and if it takes the Republican party to forcefully refute it, then good for the Republicans. I’m no “conservative,” and I don’t mesh with the puritan-Nazi faction of the GOP, but I am fed up with America’s slide into Euro-lefty style statism.

Of course, it remains to be seen if the GOP will have the gumption to muster a forceful assertion of legitimate values, or will simply dilute its will by its “inclusive” tendencies of late. I, for one, would like to see the Republicans give a sharp poke in the eye to all this political correctness. It just might pull a lot of otherwise idle folks off of the sidelines and into the fray, because I can’t be the only one who is fed up with the slippery agenda being peddled by the nation’s lefty media.

And the agenda will no doubt roll on, as the GOP continues to get skunked in Philly.