Obfuscation? Oblivion? Why is our media "elite," as well as congress, more in left field than ever -- this time over the baseball shooting, which has consumed media for days while the sinister Senate concocts one of its most ruthless plans to date. "It's rhetoric," they decide, missing the reason for yet another of countless US gun tragedies, and decide to provide each House and Senate member with a gun.
The shooter, according to CBS' Scott Pelley, was "homeless." But that's not true. Yet what other kind of person, traditional media reasons, would dare such a thing. Certainly not a man who left his Illinois home while Mitch McConnell and other Republicans were plotting a "health" bill so insidious as to knock millions off of life-saving medications and medical care -- just to give the largest tax breaks ever, even abolishing the estate tax for the upper 1-10%.
Clearly, our congress has spent as little time in U.S. cities as has our media elite (the same elite that were so sure Hillary Clinton would win because they have no idea of what's going on in the rest of the country).
In our cities shootings are so constant and random they receive scant coverage.
Yet the baseball shooting has called attention only blaming "rhetoric" and procuring more guns. Those on Mt. Olympus speculate there could be no logical reason for such a heinous act as shooting elected officials at baseball.
The message is lost as it was in our November election. We're crying out here. So many of us are literally dying. Even the shooter's Belleville, Illinois neighbors understand the rage he must have felt, and it didn't come from a heightened rhetoric: It's what's happened to our lives in this -- country of a trickle-down farce in a nouveau gilded age where a few win, and all are told they'll never lose again: Now there's distorted rhetoric, there's the rub.
The shooter, according to CBS' Scott Pelley, was "homeless." But that's not true. Yet what other kind of person, traditional media reasons, would dare such a thing. Certainly not a man who left his Illinois home while Mitch McConnell and other Republicans were plotting a "health" bill so insidious as to knock millions off of life-saving medications and medical care -- just to give the largest tax breaks ever, even abolishing the estate tax for the upper 1-10%.
Clearly, our congress has spent as little time in U.S. cities as has our media elite (the same elite that were so sure Hillary Clinton would win because they have no idea of what's going on in the rest of the country).
In our cities shootings are so constant and random they receive scant coverage.
Yet the baseball shooting has called attention only blaming "rhetoric" and procuring more guns. Those on Mt. Olympus speculate there could be no logical reason for such a heinous act as shooting elected officials at baseball.
The message is lost as it was in our November election. We're crying out here. So many of us are literally dying. Even the shooter's Belleville, Illinois neighbors understand the rage he must have felt, and it didn't come from a heightened rhetoric: It's what's happened to our lives in this -- country of a trickle-down farce in a nouveau gilded age where a few win, and all are told they'll never lose again: Now there's distorted rhetoric, there's the rub.
