A Truly Sad Day

Michael Jackson died yesterday, but that's not why I'm saying that it's a truly sad day. I understand that it is sad news for a lot of people who are his fans, and especially for his family and close friends, and I do feel for those people. But what is truly sad about all of this is the media coverage.

The passing of a celebrity of Jackson's stature is certainly newsworthy, and is going to be a big story, no question about it, and when there is something new to report, or something important to add to a previous report, that is a legitimate thing for the media to engage in. If that was the nature of the reporting of this story, I would have no problem with it at all. Unfortunately, that is not what I have seen. I have seen very little real news regarding the singers death, and virtually nonstop coverage of his life and all the times that he's been in the news in the past, and the seemingly endless line of Celebrities who think that they must put out a statement regarding his death.

I would have sighed and shrugged all of this off if it had been a slow news day, but therein lies the problem, it wasn't.

As I sit here, the Islamo-Nazi regime that runs Iran is brutally murdering their own people in the streets, shooting them, chasing them down and beating them with fists and with clubs, and kicking them to death, and, even more horrifyingly, in some cases, slaughtering them with axes! All because they had the courage to stand up and demand that the elections be honest! And the strongest response from our President so far is to tell them that they aren't welcome for hotdogs on July 4th after all. What he should be telling them is to stop it now, that we will not stand for it, and that if it continues they face a serious risk of the United States Marines knocking on their door and kicking their sorry butts all over the country! Maybe he could leave off the threat, but certainly he needs to be saying the other part.

Also today, the US House Of Representatives is debating the so-called "Cap and Trade" energy bill, which is much better defined, as Mark Levin calls it, "Tax and Kill." What it amounts to is a new tax scheme, so massive that it will kill jobs and brutalize an already strained economy, with absolutely zero impact on pollution and so called "climate change." The fact is that it will probably make pollution worse on a global scale, because companies won't be able to afford to continue doing business in the US and will go to places that will allow them to operate. Places like China, where they don't have anywhere near the pollution controls and standards that we have in the US.

And furthermore, the debate of the Healthcare still rages on, and other than a few hosts on Fox News, there has yet to be a serious story in the media explaining the facts of what the Democrat proposals on that front would really mean to our nation.

There are only three things, all of which are far more weighty and pressing matters than the death of Michael Jackson. As I said, I feel for his family, I really do, and am sad for them, and agree that this is a big story, but it is by no means the biggest or the most important story of the day.

If this is what we have come to, it is a truly sad day indeed.