Love Blinders: The Obama Media Trap

I've never been one to believe in media conspiracy. As a young journalism student, I thought the news came first, opinions came second, and it was as simple as that. Unfortunately it's not simple at all. What happens when the media indulge in irrelevant news? It's news, but not the news that we need. This is our current predicament, as nearly a month after his death, Michael Jackson news is still the center of entertainment (and some major news) channels' programmings.

Yes, Jackson was certainly a GREAT entertainer (don't deny it, because he truly was). He had millions of fans around the world, and captivated arenas at a time with his exciting, smooth dances and smash hits. But how does this at all explain the media's captivation with the King of Pop's death?

It doesn't.

We can even put aside his troubling personal life, and it still doesn't make sense, especially to the Millennial generation, whose main experiences have been with the dark part of his legacy.

Why would Michael Jackson get the same, or even better, funeral/memorial as a United States President? Why would every single major network halt hours of regular programming to show the hearse driving on his funeral day?

The answer is simple, a cliché. The reason for all of this is that we are being blinded to what is really going on. Let's take a look at our fearless leader, Barack Obama.

Six months in office, and he's already done quite a lot. He's taken a controlling share in one of the biggest banks in America (AIG). He's taken a controlling share in one of the biggest automobile manufacturers in America (General Motors). And most likely, he'll get a bill through Congress about "health care reform" which would make it nearly impossible not to purchase health care from the government, and eventually kill the entire health care industry.

These, my friends, are signs of the rise of a socialistic regime. What's the worst part? HE TOLD US HE WAS GOING TO DO THIS WHEN HE WAS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT! Unfortunately no one listened. The only thing the liberal-minded youth of this nation who voted him into office were thinking of was that they would be able to tell their kids that they voted for the first black president.

Sure, people questioned his political inexperience, but no one really dug into the idea that he went from being a junior senator who had done absolutely nothing in Congress to an international celebrity overnight. And who's responsible for the making of a celebrity? The media.

Many might brush aside the idea that the media are responsible for Obama's rise and eventual election, but it would only be out of denial. What's worse is that he is using his new found power to instill policy that could literally lead to the end of America as we know it, and the media are still covering for him.

We're in the midst of a love affair between the media and Barack Obama that could be detrimental to the future of our democracy. Six months into his presidency, and it seems like we're stumbling toward the point of no return. The point where Obama has done so much damage, that it would take many more terms to undo all of it. But there is hope yet.

Obama's quest for power could lead to his own demise. When oil prices were on the rise, it was only the topic of smalltalk, but once prices got too high, people wouldn't put up with it anymore. Using one of two powers the people have in America, consumerism, we stopped buying. Prices soon dropped back to conceivable prices.

Republicans will have to hope for and anticipate disapproval of the President if they want to makeover the GOP. What Obama did during his highly successful campaign was make the Democratic Party look cool. Republicans now have to do the same thing. Young Republicans have the opportunity to help put aside petty differences within our camps, and unite the party under the principles that this country was founded on. If we make our next Republican candidate a product, an encompassing symbol of what we should have been doing all of this time, we can persuade the people for the only other power they have left: their vote.

Unlike the oil situation, not everyone is aware that bad things are brewing in our country. Most are tuning in to E! News to see the results of Michael Jackson's autopsy report. What we have to do as Republicans is not get sucked into the media trap. Keep the blinders off. We can't wait until 2012 to start brainstorming for the next election.