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Conspiracy theories are a lot of fun. From the second shooter in Dallas to reports that The ONE was born in Kenya and is not a United States citizen and therefore is ineligible to be the First African American President of the United States, they run the spectrum of political views. Most such theories are crap but they serve a purpose. For while sometimes a New Mexican weather balloon is just a weather balloon, there are occasions when what is reported as truth is nowhere near reality. Conspiracy theorists keep us on our toes and help remind us to question everything.

In these days when the main stream media has surrendered its mantle of investigative journalism to become the town crier for the current administration, we all need to seek alternative sources for conflicting and often truthful reporting. With reports indicating that a large percentage of young adults are getting their national news from John Stewart and Stephen Colbert it is no surprise Press Secretary Gibbs feels the need to try his hand at stand up on a regular basis. He must be pretty good at it. He has seasoned journalists rolling in the aisles to a point where they are incapable of asking a probing question regarding the unprecedented rate at which the government is putting its grimy fingers in to every aspect of our lives. That guy from Harold and Kumar must be doing a bang up job behind the scenes slipping Gibbs little throw off lines.

I’ve long been concerned over the rumored revival of the so called fairness doctrine; also known as the Hush Rush bill. This piece of unconstitutional legislation would demand equal time for both sides of an issue on talk radio shows. Forget the fact the most Sunday news shows tend to be stacked three and four to one, Liberal versus Conservative. In the case of This Week with little George that ratio is only fair considering the resident right thinker there is the sage George Will. I think they might want to get a few more minds on the left to even the playing field.

About this time some of you will be shouting, “what about Fox News”. Ok, I will give you that one. To paraphrase the aforementioned Mr. Will, Fox News seems to be singled out because it is like a discordant chord in an otherwise harmonious symphony. When every other news outlet speaks in terms so sycophantic that their teleprompters have the seal of the White House on them, Fox sticks out like a straight guy at one of Sanjaya’s house parties. With odds like that, you’d think the fairness doctrine would ease some of the conservative laryngitis by providing a cough drop of balance. Unfortunately, the control of this fairness will not lie in the opinions of a free market but in the biased prism of a government official. This won’t be good.

Where hope springs eternal, evidence that no matter what our government decides, the will of the people will win out. Case in point: Iran. News reporters were asked to leave the country when protests started in the wake of the recent election of the Players club jacket guy who hates Jews. As the Maxwell Smart cone of silence of the leaders in Iran descended on its citizenry and television station and newspapers closed, every day people began to Twitter and Facebook and YouTube their way to publicizing an country wide uprising. Evidence of violence by the government against the protestors shows a ruling party willing to do anything to remain in power. This repression would have gone on in seclusion were it not for Al Gore’s greatest achievement of the internet.

I don’t know enough to comment on how well or how poorly our President is handling the situation as the United States relates to the happenings in Iran. I do know enough to comment that, those of you who wish to remain free need to take every opportunity to make yourselves heard and do our best to lift our own cone of silence being lowered, not yet by government fiat but, by a willing media who might do better to do their research on Facebook.

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