Add it to the list of reasons we are all at war with the liberal media.
Everyone heard the news story about Tom Selleck stealing water from a fire hydrant for his mega-mansion. They led every newscast with it.
Not everybody heard the real story which came out, namely that his irrigation contractor had bought the water through a contract with the city allowing him to take a measured amount for his clients.
Water from a public hydrant that Tom Selleck has been accused of stealing from in dry California was legally purchased, an official said…”
Jay Spurgin, public works director for Thousand Oaks, said a construction company paid a fee to secure the rights to draw water from the city hydrant two years ago. About 1.4 million gallons of water were taken from the hydrant during that period.
“There was water used during that time, and it was paid for,” he said.
Even a celebrity like Selleck can’t rewrite the media narrative as fast as Trump, or hold the media’s feet to the fire like Trump can. So they smear his reputation, tarnish his good name, and then bury all exculpatory evidence on the back side of their websites.
More and more, these things have me wondering if we would be wise to select a candidate who will be the anti-George Bush – a leader of any quality, good or bad, but an excellent molder of public opinion, driving the populace more conservative, and making the media more afraid to attack conservatives. If you can get both a great leader, and one who alters the public dialog then great, but mold the public before the policy, because once there is a failure of public spirit, the soul of the nation will whither, and then even the most perfect subsequent policy will be useless. We see that in America today, and it was all due to George W Bush’s refusal to criticize liberals.
In some ways the question could be rephrased as, do we want to rule a bunch of apathetic cowards by fiat and coercion, or should we seek a leader who will mold those citizens into conservative patriots who seek to abide by those rules themselves. Clearly George W Bush was an extreme example of the former, and more and more, Trump appears an extreme form of the latter.
What we have seen of late is not a failure of our leaders, so much as a failure of our population, produced by our last conservative President’s failure to present K-selective stimuli to mold our population’s psychology.
Should we address that molding of the populace’s psychology with our selection of leaders, even before considering any policy-based selection?
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