Supreme Court

Here is what I hate about the whole Supreme Court nomination thing. It's the way everyone seems to have made up their mind early on. That seemed to be the case with a majority of the people involved. I would think that only two or three people really know what happened. So it seems like most people should be saying, "I don't know for sure, but this is what I think happened." I'm fine with that. Instead, people were saying they believed A or they believed B. That was before any hearings, testimony, investigation, or anything.

And why should it divide by political party? Republicans believed A and Democrats believed B. And why should it be divided by what channel you watch? At the end, Fox was like party central. CNN and MSNBC seemed like they were both a cross between being really angry and ready to cry.

It has happened before. The Anita Hill / Clarence Thomas thing was like this, although I don't think quite as bad as this latest situation. The O.J. Simpson case wasn't political, but white people thought he was a murderer and black people thought he was framed. It's the same set of facts. (By the way, he was a murderer.)

I guess it's the same as when fans of two sports teams see a potential penalty completely differently.

I think I'm watching too much news. I'm pretty limited in trying to find something. CNN, MSNBC, FOX, clearly have agendas. If NBC thinks its fine to come up with MSNBC, I don't trust NBC either. That leaves ABC and CBS news. I've been taping CBS news and watching that each day. It only takes me a few minutes. In the 30 minute broadcast there are like 11 minutes of commercials. There is always 5 minutes on some weather event. There is some feel good piece at the end that isn't really news. That doesn't leave a lot. But I'm feeling even that is time I can use better doing something else.

Its not the worst its ever been. Before the Civil War congressmen were having fist fights and duels. Newspapers were definitely slanted. But it does seem like news and bias and incivility is the worst its been in the last century. If I don't watch the news, though, I can't see it. There I've talked myself into it. That's an extra ten minutes a day I've gotten in my life.