Whether it is on the left or the right, mainstream or alternative media, it isn't about delivering facts any more. It is more a carnival side show, a slapstick shtick that relies almost solely on hurling insults and delivering barbs against the other side.
It's cathartic to make fun of Sarah Palin and all the other low-hanging rotten fruit on Fox News and elsewhere. Some people have made a very tidy sum of money doing exactly that on TV and the Internet. But what has that cost us in our political dialogue? Instead of talking about financial policies and the way to move forward with some kind of compromise in place, it looks more like an audience watching a cage of monkeys hurling feces at each other in a scene cut from "Idiocracy".
We've blurred the line between news and entertainment, between commentary and facts to where you cannot recognize the differences any longer. Are you not entertained?
