Tonight, we should know the name of the next President of the United States; or the name that will continue to be.
I think that this election cycle has been the worst in my lifetime: there has been more vitrol, hate, rumor-mongering, half-truths and outright lies than ever before. From the outset, the so-called 'negative ads' have held sway over the rational discourse that should be the hallmark for the race to the top office in America.
We've seen a press corps more interested in maintaining access to a candidate than to seeking the truth and presenting it to the American people. Those who say that the fourth estate is dead are right.
Does the Watergate mess really represent the last of REAL reporting in America? Sure, there have been opportunities for the media to live up to it's great responsibilities in sounding clarion calls to those who care to hear them; but, now, the media has become an arm of the democrat party such that they don't even bother to hide their disdain for fair, unbiased coverage of anything.
During the last four years, and even beyond that, the media have simply looked the other way when freedom is supressed, laws are broken by politicians, and fallen all over themselves to make excuses for those in 'their' party. Objectivity is neither sought nor to be desired.
For the rest of today, the media will try to push/pull their candidate across the finish line, even if it requires them to sell their collective souls.
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