Today's embodiment of evil

When she's not cruelly accusing a distraught mother of a missing toddler of committing the crime, a mother who is innocent and kills herself shortly after the nationally televised interview airs, I can only assume Nancy Grace is frightening small children or perhaps kicking puppies. Confirmation of her evil was found this weekend when I saw her show at a bar with no volume. Closed captioning and no sound made this woman even more horrifying, if that's possible.

I can't quite pin down what it is about her that makes my skin crawl, but I do wonder how she's still a CNN anchor. Saturday night's show was an entire hour on who we should blame for dead professional wrestlers. This crazy woman wants a Congressional investigation of wrestling. Seriously. Look... if they're taking illegal substances, that's a matter for law enforcement, not Congress. But that's not even my point. My point is that this shit is what passes for news, a full hour of it in fact. Television sucks.

We don't need no education

Why is it that given two of the most egalitarian media content sources in history featuring content provided entirely by the near countless users, youtube and wikipedia, some conservatives claimed "liberal bias" and created their own conservative versions of each site? I don't know of any special liberial version of such sites.

Why is it that the ranks of the home-schooled are dominated by the children of very conversative (and Christian) parents?

Why is it that I often see a conservative book club advertised on the web, but I've never even heard of a liberal one?

A conservative Fox News pundit, Bill O'Reilly, often claims that he's really standing up for the views of the majority of Americans. If he's correct, how is it that the purported liberal minority apparently controls almost all sources of media, education, science, and information in general and the supposed conservative majority must strive to insulate themselves from it?

If we claim that media people, educators, and scientists have a liberal bias, aren't we saying that many of our smartest, most well-informed people have a liberal bias? If that's the case, how is it a bad thing? Intelligent, well-informed people aren't to be trusted? Does that mean we should listen to uneducated, uninformed people instead?

I'm so confused.