Saturday Night's Cain-Gingrich Debate

Did you watch the Cain-Gingrich Debate last night on C-Span?

No... of course you didn't.

Hell... I didn't!

But... I watched it this morning!

Folks... the fact that something approaching a "real" debate between two serious presidential contenders occurred last night and yet for all intents and purposes there was a news blackout concerning it... that tells you everything you need to know about the media as well as the two parties and most candidates.

Like I said... I didn't watch it live. Frankly I had forgotten it was on - otherwise I would have set the DVR to record it!

But, folks... doesn't that serve to demonstrate how lacking pre-event coverage was... that even your beloved blog-host "forgot" the debate was going to be held last night?!

Folks... the mainstream media (yes... including Fox) thrives upon keeping the American People ignorant - and thus malleable.

The same applies to both political parties as well as academia.

No... it's not a "conspiracy" as such. It's not like the heads of the broadcast and cable news divisions get together for a weekly meeting with the heads of the Republican and Democrat parties and representatives of America's foremost universities and Fortune 50 businesses and plot out how they're gonna "fool" the American People over the next week.

No... it's an "organic" conspiracy. It just happens.

Yes... part of it is simply a reflection of their contempt for the average American. They don't believe the average American is interested in... er... "details"... nor do they believe the average American has the attention span or background knowledge necessary to "follow" a nuts and bolts policy discussion as opposed to sitting around the living room with popcorn and beer "rooting on" their favorite candidate and party while focusing on catching the "gotchya" moments and most clever soundbites.

Here's the thing, though: while there is of course much truth in the above caricature, the question is, why is there much truth in it?

The answer: because this is the audience that K-12, the average college education, and a lifetime of reading, listening to, and watching mainstream media in action has deliberately created!

After all, folks... gotta lead in to those commercials... gotta get those pages quickly changed so as to expose readers to as many ads as possible...

Was last night's debate the ultimate "real" debate? Not hardly! Indeed, it was more of a marketing of general free-market conservative policy direction than a true head to head debate featuring and outlining the policy differences of the two candidates.

But compared to what the American People have long been getting from the mainstream media - those silly, shallow, intellectually insulting dog and pony shows wrongly referred to as "candidate debates" - last night's debate presented by the Texas Patriot's PAC was a true breath of fresh air and hopefully the foundational block upon which future "real" debates can be constructed and presented.

Folks... we know how to run "real" debates.

Seriously... folks... we know how to run "real" debates!

Real debates are not boring. And even if they were... does anyone seriously doubt that the most brilliant minds of American news and entertainment presentation couldn't find ways of presenting "real" debates in an entertaining manner...???

(Folks... how many wildly successful television shows are their focused upon everything from dancing to weight loss... cooking to "antiquing?")

Let me ask you folks something. Just as a guess... a supposition... what sort of audience would you suppose a "real" debate between candidate Barak Hussein Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton would have gotten in 2008 at any moment in time when their nomination race was still a nail-biter?

Does anyone doubt that if, say, ABC News or one of the other networks were to announce to great fanfare that on, say, this coming Wednesday night from 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. they'd be broadcasting a live one-on-one debate between Mitt Romney and Herman Cain - a "real" debate held according to collegiate rules, moderated by "professional" academic moderators whose goal was to challenge and clarify not for the purposes of "good television" but in order to "fact-check" - there would be any less of an audience than the network's normal programming would be likely to get?

Com'on... we know such a debate would get a huge audience!

Both Cain and Gingrich have now engaged in an activity that should be the norm, not the exception. They've presented their ideas to the American People in a deliberate and relatively specific manner.

Where's Romney?

Where's Perry?

Where and the second-stringers?

(Jeez... just imagine a "real" one-on-one debate between Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul...!)

We don't have to simply accept that the politicians and the media have the right to "manage" us and spoon-feed us only the news (and suppositions - whether true or false) they see fit to "allow" us easy access to.

Understand, folks... ignorance is the opiate of the masses and our mainstream establishment politicians and main-street media elite are the pushers.

Folks... regardless of what you've been taught, ignorance is not bliss! Ignorance on our part is what has enabled the political, media, and financial elites of this nation to rob us blind and enrich themselves while doing so.

Unless someone steps up to challenge President Obama for the Democratic Party's 2012 presidential nomination (unlikely) the Democrats won't be having a primary contest this time around.

That leaves the Republicans...

I call upon each and every one of you who has a Republican Congress(wo)man and/or Senator to call him or her (or them!) and demand that they as senior Republican officeholders demand of all Republican presidential nomination seekers that each of them proactively seek to engage in a series of one-on-one "real" debates between the contestants.

Folks... think about this: if the Republicans (more of them than just Cain and Gingrich) create a precedent for having REAL one-one-one debates... then when it comes to the actual head-to-head contest between whomever becomes the GOP presidential nominee and President Barak Obama the Democrats and their mainstream media allies will have little choice but to offer the American People AUTHENTIC debates between standard-bearers of conservatism vs. liberalism.

Whatever your political affiliation or ideological identity... wouldn't you want to see that?

I believe America DESERVES that!