The Media Giveth And The Media Taketh Away - For The Left It Taketh Away Much More Than It Giveth

I think one of the tragic resent results of having the secular-left or, in fact, our politics associated with the world of entertainment is in the end of the Senate career of one of the best Senators of the past decade,  Al Franken.  It was his antics as a performer which were used to destroy him, proving that Democrats will pay a price for far lesser APPEARANCES of wrong-doing than Republicans will never pay for the most serious and destructive REALITIES of wrong-doing.  

The use of puerile show-biz antics engaged in by Al Franken WHILE HE WAS OPERATING IN THE PUERILE WORLD OF SHOW-BIZ to destroy his very serious, very valuable work in the reality of politics, damage done to him by those who are in the world that mixes news and politics and entertainment - as all of the electronic media inevitably does -  proves that that fake world is bad for democracy.  

Show-biz might have made it possible for Al Franken to have become famous enough to run for the Senate, something that has worked a lot better for Republicans as Reagan, Trump, Pence, etc. prove.  But it was also the thing that made him vulnerable to attack.   I would be surprised if someone as smart as Franken is wouldn't agree with that observation about his political career trajectory. 

My point about the play-lefties of the online media having a huge personal and professional interest in attracting viewers and, yeah, right, readers, is that that is their first interest.   If they were realistic about the candidacy of Elizabeth Warren as opposed to Bernie Sanders their play-lefty audience base would turn on them and start making them un-kew-el, such are the real standards of the mostly white, mostly middle to upper-class, mostly college-credentialed play left that formed in college and which never, ever grows up.  

The new-new-left media is as guilty of playing to their audience as the sold-as-new-left - oh, yeah, right "alternative non-commercial" media of "public broadcasting" and the commercial media do.  They've got more in common with right-wing media in that, only the right-wing media is pushed by oligarchic fascists.  

And that's not going into the worst part of it, the granted permission of it to lie with impunity, something which the media-would-be left adores as much as the neo-fascists who are its most notable beneficiaries. 

File this under "Hate Mail".