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President Eisenhower warned this nation of our over dependency of the "military industrial complex" over fifty years ago but no one ever really took his warnings seriously. Note...this warning came from an individual steeped in military and poltical experience and wisdom. There is ample evidence the reasons behind the Watergate break-in/coverup was to find out if the Democrats had any knowledge of Howard Hughe's illegal cash donations for military contracts to the Nixon campaign (and Nixon personally) and to avoid any "October suprise" from occuring in the fall 1972 presidential election (in which the paranoid Nixon was leading in the polls thanks to a series of dirty tricks hoisted upon democratic candidates). Since Nixon was forced to resign the Republicans have developed and nurtured their think tanks in an all out effort to not only win back control of the levers of government power but to literally destroy any Democratic candidate in their way by all means possible. Part of that strategy (besides trying to wrap all Democrats as immoral in their personal lives and soft on everything from crime to national defense and equating it with a demeaning definition of liberal)is to constantly beat the drum that the press is and always has been slanting to the extreme liberal. Combined with todays corporate takeover of cable news shows and talk radio it is no wonder todays press works overtime to keep from being labled and demonized by the right as being "liberal" (after all who wants a Carl Rove calling your boss to complain about a secret about yellowcake deception being revealed). With newspaper circulations dropping and more people getting their news from television talk shows and radio it is no wonder this Orwellian administration can slip so much over on the American public especially when one considers the "fairness doctrine" was thown out over 15 years ago. Too much opinion speculation by our current news outlets (T.V. $ radio)are being accepted as fact and news agencies have found it more economical to parrot what they are hearing reported by others while cutting their own investigative departments. Our only hope is the few who do in-dept reporting, the internet, occasional leaks, and other nuggets of truth prevail in the short term to pull us through this darkest hour of quest to keep a free, unfettered, and informed press. Otherwise history will never be able to report when truth actually died.
