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I missed the local news the other night. I usually watch it out of habit. Actually I listen to it while I do other things. It is nice to know what is going on in Albuquerque and New Mexico, as it is nice to be somewhat informed of what is going on in your part of the world.

I missed the local news due to a schedule change not my own, but it effects me. So when I turned on the television to watch the news it was not there. Once i realized what time it was, okay, not a problem, I changed channels to one of the 24 hour news channels. they were not doing news, so I changed to another one. Same thing, no breaking news, just a followup to something that had happened that day. Repeat performance for the last news stations I knew of.

I checked the channel guide, and as is more the norm than not, there was nothing showing I wanted to watch. I remembered while flipping through the channels there was a talk news show going on. I normally do not care for them, but as having never seen this one I thought I would give it a few minutes of my time.

I watched for about fifteen minutes as the host pumped out fear and rants about what is happening to this country! I was not aware of all he problems we are experiencing, I am so glad I tuned in. I found out that due to immigration, the Supreme Court overturning the California Gay marriage ban, and the way America has changed since the late sixties that the country is almost lost!

The host never really made it clear to whom we are losing the county to, that did not seem important to the line he was taking. We are losing America, and we need to get moving before it is too late and we become foreigners in our own neighborhoods. If the hosts word on these fears was not enough, a guest was brought on the show to prop up the rhetoric being spewed across the airwaves.

Unfortunately for the show, the guest disagreed or downplayed the host’s issues for other areas of concern that were on the guests mind at the moment. The guest did this in a way that while not outwardly promoting everything the host was creating fear over, but went on with personal insights supporting his views. It was clear that either the guest on the program was not screened before the show aired, or kept his agenda hidden until it was his turn to speak.

At any rate the joining in the crusade with the guest never happened and the conversation was ended leaving some open time which was not filled very well by the host. It reminded of a conservative radio talk show host who cuts off callers with opposite views and then rants on about their inability to grasp the issue.

As I mentioned twenty minutes was about all I could take. I must be a political backwater bumpkin because my life concerns are a little more concrete. I think our country being a democracy is reforged from time to time by the will of the people and not some short sighted fear monger who demands the majority to conform to their view of how things ought to be. Of course I did not even touch on the hosts religious views which he managed to get in while stirring the pot on how the country is going to the dogs. Gosh maybe instead of having what I feel are high level views, there is something fundamentally wrong with me and I should tune in again? Not….

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