But the Republican President threw these senators under the Hummer, abruptly changed his position on diverting TARP bail-out money intended for endangered financial institutions to the car makers, making any negotiated concessions from UAW leadership unnecessary. Sorry to say, we needed a GPS tracker attached to the President’s integrity.
This often discouraging year now seems more an episode of “Lost” than anything. We have lost much, including truth and honest debate, and factual and complete reporting anywhere in the media, on just about any subject of significance. Like Diogenes in search of the honest man, I watched about four hours of Sunday morning news programs on all four networks on the 14th. The best reporting was about the use of the GPS technology to find stolen statuary. The worst was, well, everything else.
Maybe all of this is as old as that Dragnet episode. Or older. From Mark Twain: “The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.” But the prejudice does seem to grow more dominating, doesn’t it?