The Occasional Observer

I'm sure most of you have seen this, since it's been out on Drudge for a few days now. The headline of the you-tube clip is, "Ted Turner says he can't pick sides in the War on Terror." His actual words were as follows:

"There are a lot of things about this war that disturb me, and one of them is...the attitude that was well expressed by our President...[that] either you're with us or you're against us. And I had a problem with that, because I hadn't really made my mind up yet..."

Upon reading that Teddy T wasn't sure whether to support his countrymen risking their lives abroad, I have a confession to make: I wasn't angry. I should have been outraged, but I chalked it up as just one more example of liberal America-loathing, moral equivocation, and political "gotcha."

Having seen the headline 4, 5 or 6 times, it finally started to sink in. This was the warped mentality that was the founding inspiration for one of our major MSM news outlets. The entire CNN network, which bangs the anti-GOP drum 24-7-365, was built on the foundation of Teddy's America-hating. I know he'd recoil at being called an America-hater and probably fancies himself a good citizen. Unfortunately, his idea of America has little to do with our historical culture. In his world, millionaire yachtsmen sell-out their countrymen, cooperate with special-interest group shills to hold taxpayers hostage, and force secularism and defeatism down the throats of their fellow citizens. It's the bizzaro America that has taken root in the last 40 years, and is now bearing fruit in the American left stating aloud that losing to Islamists is just as good as winning; preserving our way of life is not morally superior to surrendering.

Those of you who read this blog know that I am no blind supporter of the current President's foreign policy, but make no mistake: the President wants victory. Ted Turner isn't sure if there's anything worth fighting for. There is a big difference.

Why people like this get to serve as the filters, deciding what is news-worthy for the American people, is beyond me. Why real patriots can't infiltrate the news industry, and speak truth to moral equivocation (to use some dKos language), escapes me. Here's hoping for a better press down the road, and the marginalization of crackpots like Ted Turner.

UPDATE:

Michelle Malkin, goddess of the conservative blogosphere, weighed in on Turner's comments here. She focused on Teddy's distate for patriotic symbols, and hit another column out of the park.

If you've ever read any of her books, as well researched and fact-oriented as they are, Michelle would be the perfect person to give an investigative reporting show, if there's a network gutsy enough to stand up to the liberal establishment. I don't know if she'd be willing to give up the flexibility she has now, but I can only imagine what she could do with 30 minutes a week on the tube.