I don't think the Internet has done anywhere near the damage to the way people, particularly Americans, see things in 2008 as has the Bush/Cheney administration.

Remember, when these 2 morally bankrupt individuals were appointed to office by the Supreme Court in 2000, the American people first had to face the new reality that the United States could no longer call itself a democracy. That was a pretty big pill to swallow - the ending of our democracy! Then, George W Bush, with the majority support of his so-called fellow "Christians" in America, decided to unilaterally attack and murder the innocent people of a soveriegn nation that had never, ever even REMOTELY threatened the United States - just because of their strategic location in the Middle East and their oil! Not content to simply bomb and mass-murder these people, Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld then decided to reinstate the policy of torture at Abu Ghraib against these innocent people that his father's ex-friend Saddam Hussien had instated.

To watch as crime after crime occur, from outing a covert CIA agent to wiretapping Americans illegally without warrant, the American people have witnessed their homeland, which before Bush was the most respected democracy on the planet, the country that upheld the highest ideals and respect for law, disappear is something that has deadened many American's views.

If the current governor of New York had an affair and the American people aren't shocked, the author of this article believes that the American people have become desensitised by the Internet.

WRONG!

Just because the mainstream media refuses to discuss the obscene crimes against humanity, the Geneva Conventions, and the laws of this once great nation committed by the Bush administration over the past 7 years, that doesn't mean they didn't happen and aren't happening curently! The "shock" of mass fucking on the Internet pales enormously to the moral bankruptcy of George W Bush and Richard Cheney that the American people have witnessed happen in their name since 2000!

By calling small-town Americans "bitter," Obama has deepened a long-standing rift in the Democratic base.

No he hasn't.

Not only is the premise of this piece a 100% lie, but only within the national media (or the imbeciles who watch FOX, read Drudge, and listen to Limbaugh) is this manufactured narrative even remotely valid.

As with the media generated "controversies" of Rev Wright, Louis Farrakhan, bowling, muslims, etc., etc., ad naseum, this is reactionary media prejudice (not just against blacks, but against anyone non-Republican) that the true effete, champagne & caviar elitists (ie Republicans) accuse all non-Republicans of.

It's tired. It's reckless. It's driven by the corporate media (who worship the GOP even when they are hated - as George W Bush and his corrupt, lawless party are - by the American majority). It's based on nothing. And is repeated over and over and over in every election cycle regardless of the players... It's not even worth getting angry about. It's to be expected. Which is why the national media is so scorned by the overwhelming majority of the American people.

Another issue with the government’s need to hire military propagandists to lie to the American people under the guise of “objective military analysis”, has been the grotesque slander done by these same colonels and generals to those opposed to attacking and occupying Iraq.

I recall during the run up in early 2003, Col. Jack Jacobs was on MSNBC saying definitively that the reason Scott Ritter was opposed to going into Iraq was because he was on Saddam Hussein’s payroll. Of course, there was no challenging that outrageous lie by the infotainment hosts on MSNBC, and as ethically devoid as Col Jack Jacobs is, he is still pontificating on MSNBC on what “America” needs to do in Iraq, Iran, etc.

Has John McCain (or Peggy Noonan, or George Bush, or Dick Cheney) ever gotten misty-eyed over the speeches of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and what kind of country he helped us to become and how it changed everything? How about Rosa Parks, or The Tuskegee Airmen, or Harriet Tubman, or the men and women who died at the hands of vile white racists? There's gold in that history. And Barack Obama carries it in his bones.

The day thinly-veiled racist screeds like Noonan's, where longing for the days of John Ford, the wisdom of Charles Lindbergh, and (undoubtedly) voiceless blacks and minorities, are finally seen as coming from the hate-filled soul from which they derive, we will have overcome one of our worst lingering mindsets in this country. The White-Euro-Centric-is-Best philosophy espoused by people like Noonan and Pat Buchannan.