What the Last Four Years Have Revealed  Whoever wins today’s
election, the Obama presidency and his presidential campaign
have exposed troubling political and social dysfunctions that
bode ill for our future.  The Final Corruption of the Mainstream
Media  Since Watergate and Vietnam, it has been obvious that the
media are ideologically liberal. But professional ethics and
careerist self-interest still kept at least some reporters
willing to pursue the truth no matter whose partisan ox was
gored. The last four years have marked a transition from
ideological preferences tempered by professional integrity, to
rank partisanship and eager collusion with the political needs
of the Democrats.  The media’s failure in 2008 to vet Senator
Obama with the same intensity and thoroughness that modern
presidential candidates are routinely subjected to was just the
beginning. The indifference to Obama’s unsavory connections to
his racist pastor Jeremiah Wright, the unrepentant terrorist
Bill Ayers, and the sleazy operator To