Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Fact or Fiction

The topic of objectivity is an interesting one, especially considering the heated nature of some of the debates surrounding President Obama. There are current debates calling for his impeachment(the title of this blog is the link) and little, if any of it, seems based on facts. What I find most disturbing is the propaganda of hate that is being dressed up as fact. When did disagreeing with someone's opinion become grounds for removing them from a job that they earned by virtue of democratic elections?

http://www.obamaimpeachment.org/
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=112098

The "collapsing of the United States" started long before Obama took office and instead of working in a collective effort to restore this economy, we continue to see partisan politics as usual. Similar to the Hatfill case, opinion is being allowed to rule over fact and fairness and with much more dire consequences.

I see no justification for calling for the impeachment of one president because of a question of documents that was addressed before the elections, yet not addressing a trumped up war, loss of tens of thousands of lives, a declaration of victory where there was none, and an economy in shambles. This is what I consider a crime.

3 comments:

valerie said...

This right wing extremism ,is so absurd it almost doesn't warrant commenting on.President Obama was elected with, I believe one of the largest majorities of any president.The American people did not believe these ridiculous fabrications during the election,certainly because we face some hard times and The President has some difficlt decisions to make ,they shouldn't try to revisit those incredulous issues.

President Obama is an extremely accomplished politician, who is faced with incredible challenges.Although nobody can be sure if all his efforts will be fruitfull for this country, this talk of impeachment is ridiculous

Michael Sweeney said...
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Michael Sweeney said...

The mainstream media within the United States now presents information in the form of absolutism. The concept of absolutism in political form is beyond detrimental to the democratic process - it's downright dangerous.

Political opinions are now seldom formed upon the grounds of in depth information, but rather an alignment with whatever absolutist view is being portrayed by the media. The large, large majority of people identify themselves as either democrat or republican, without actually knowing what the true inherent meaning of such an alignment is.

This absolutist method of delivering highly opinionated, highly biased information has created the extremism you've mentioned - in both the left and the right. People now view their opinions as fact, indisputable and empirical.

Bill O'Reilly is not a journalist, he's an extremist propagandist.