This has been a year to remember Hans Christian Anderson’s, “Emperor’s New Suit of Clothes”. We went through primaries and general elections with tales told and untold. On one side there was a television screen filled with, would be, or want to be presidents. During the endless debates and news coverage much was done to undress the candidates. After grueling weeks of self criticisms, selection was made. Then someone dug up a question and answer sequence wherein the selected candidate fumbled the explanation that about forty-seven percent would not vote for him so it would matter little what he said or did. Suddenly the news media became little children and screamed the rich man has no clothes.
We are being done an unjust service by our print and electronic news media. Four years and on half ago, a few voices screamed that the young, untested, clichéd, speaker talking of hope and change, was exposed for various questionable acts that needed to be aired. How come Senator Obama could sit in the pews of a man’s church but never heard the sermons’ contents? A few people claimed this would-be- emperor had a dirty suit, but it was never televised or printed with a clarion voice. Remember when college writings by our Vice President, in prior years, were found to be Biden’s dirty suit of plagiarism. Is there a collegian of Democrat power brokers and news media? I watched yesterday while someone asked Chris Christie if his weight is, or will be, a problem for his candidacy in 2016. His answer should have been why are you trying to soil or undress this want- to-be-emperor?
Like the people watching the parade in the Hans Christian Anderson fable, our voices in the free press remain quiet and reluctant to ‘scream the emperor has no clothes’. “I will resolve the economy in three years or there will be no second term”; Barack Obama.
Jerry Keer
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