I read two papers this morning & in almost every article they both reprinted from sources such as the AP, Wash Po, LA & NY Times every single one went into excrutiating detail giving the ad lines (McCains ads at least) without even mentioning that the basis of several of the ads are not factual. I mean, we've had eye witness national traveling press (Andrea Mitchell) say Obama wasn't intending on making the GI visit in Germany a photo-op yet the press still dutifully repeats the ads lines without mentioning what I would like to think is something very important there.

Obama's ads conversely were glossed over. In trying to explain the point of his ads, surprise, surprise, they used Republicans to give their take on it all.

The MSM is no longer the fourth branch. Now it's definitely in the tank for one political party and that can never be a good thing, no matter which party the Media Corporations choose. I think part of that problem is the concentration of media under a limited number of corporate entities. We no longer see any independent thought or local viewpoints. It's all seemingly dictated from above. And to their dishonor the writers & talking heads are either dutifully obeying orders or are in on it too. I suspect the latter. I mean, here you have every single one of these blabbering idiots (the press, not the politicians...yea, I know it's hard to tell the difference anymore) making well into 6, 7 & 8 figures...they are part of the current regal class. I think they like it and want to keep it that way.

In little more than two decades we've gone from a position of energy independence to one in which almost half the oil we use comes from foreign countries, at prices that are going through the roof. Our excessive dependence on OPEC has already taken a tremendous toll on our economy and our people. .

. .To give us energy security, I am asking for the most massive peacetime commitment of funds and resources in our nation's history to develop America's own alternative sources of fuel --from coal, from oil shale, from plant products for gasohol, from unconventional gas, from the sun. . . .

These efforts will cost money, a lot of money, and that is why Congress must enact the windfall profits tax without delay. It will be money well spent. Unlike the billions of dollars that we ship to foreign countries to pay for foreign oil, these funds will be paid by Americans to Americans. These funds will go to fight, not to increase, inflation and unemployment. . . .

For fun can you guess who gave this speech.