> There is nothing that will make me watch President Bush's State of the Union speech this evening. We know what the state of the union is, thanks to George W. Bush. It is a mess: foreclosure problems, unemployment, wars without end, our military stretched to the limit, an ever increasing national debt, Halliburton's stockholders getting richer on the blood of our military, the failure of the No Child Left Behind Act, the mess with wiretapping, etc., etc.
> I did not have a chance to change the TV channel at lunch, and so I caught the last part of a report on WSYX, channel 6 (the Sinclair Broadcasting station in Columbus, Ohio). A reporter, Morris Jones, predicted what President Bush would be speaking about this evening. Morris Jones said (I'm paraphrasing here!) that the "surge" was working and that everything was good in Iraq. Morris Jones is the primary Washington, DC correspondent for Sinclair. (You remember how the Sinclair Broadcasting Group participated in the "swiftboating" of John Kerry.) The sad thing is that people take channel 6 and reports from Sinclair as news. It is nothing more than right wing propaganda disguised in a news broadcast.
