General @ Monday November 07, 2005 09:23 am by WunderKraut
Things have been very slow around here for the past week or so. Sorry about that. Work and home life have been conspiring to keep me from posting. Man, that whole earning a living sure puts a crimp on goofing off.
Anyway, I also have hit a bit of a rut. I have been officially blogging since February of this year. I installed Site Meter only four months ago and it is already over 12,000. September and October were my most productive months ever. As a reward I was given the privilege of guest blogging on a blog that is much bigger than mine. I have FINALLY been linked by Michelle Malkin and Ace of Spades has tossed me a few links. I still do not have my Instalanche link yet, but I am working on it. All in all it has been a very good few months.
But…
Maybe all bloggers go through this at some point. This must be where most give up, while others stick it out. You reach a point where you have written about the things that most interest you and you feel like you are repeating yourself. What more is there to say? How many more times can one point out the bias in the MSM? How many more times can you point out the hypocrisy of the Democrats in Congress concerning the war in Iraq? How many times can you bash Republicans for selling their souls and spending like drunken Democrats? How many times can you criticize President Bush for failing to use the bully pulpit to explain his positions on the war and on Social Security?
How many times?
Just last week there have been three major stories that the MSM has either outright ignored or given a pass to the Democrats:
1. Senate candidate Michael Steele being called an “Uncle Tom” and an “Oreo” and being characterized as a Sambo - Just because he is black AND a Conservative Republican, the Democratic machine labels him a race traitor. Somehow or another, the MSM seems fine with this. Sure they have finally begun to distance themselves from some of the rhetoric, but they have given a HUGE pass to Democrats.
For comparison, see how the MSM treats a Conservative Republican who says something that COULD be construed as racist - Trent Lott.
Lott said a few things at an old mans birthday:
I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We’re proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn’t have had all these problems over all these years, either.
Thurmond had run on a segregationist platform in 1948. Yes Lott should not have said it, but he did not say anything overtly racist. It could be construed from his remarks that he wanted Thurmond to win because if he had then the south would have still been segregated. Lott’s friends and family all stood up and said that while they could see how his remarks could be taken that way, they all insisted he that was not what he meant. He was clobbered by the MSM. I can not defend his remarks. I think reasonable people all agreed that his remarks were over the top. He was made to apologize and then to resign his post. I am not saying that he was treated unfairly. But look at the pass the Democrats have been given in regards to Mr. Steele. Tell me that the MSM is unbiased.
Imagine, just imagine if J.C. Watts, a black Republican, compared some Democratic official, say Kweisi Mfume, to Sambo or called him an “Uncle Tom”. There would be no end to the wailing and the gnashing of teeth by the MSM.
But when a Democrat says such things…the MSM basically says, “Well, they do have a point about the ‘Uncle Tom’ bit.”
I grow tired of pointing this out EVERY week.
2. Plame/Wilson/Scooter – The only thing they got Scooter on was that he recalled conversations with reporters differently than the reporters had. Nothing was found implicating him in the “outing” of Plame. Yet the Democrats have been spinning this as just the first of many indictments concerning the misleading of the U.S. about the Iraq War. How they can make that jump is a mystery to me. It is almost like the Democrats knew, just knew, that someone would be indicted for “outing” Plame. They knew that when that happened they would have an in to begin going after the President. But no one was indicted for that, but it appears that the Democrats were incapable of understanding the nature of the indictment. So they ran with “Bush Lied. People Died.”
The MSM has been eating this up. It took me 10 seconds or less to find old blog posts listing quotes by Democrats as far back as 1998 concerning the grave threat that Saddam and his WMD’s posed to the rest of the world. Yet, NOT ONE DAMN time in this past week has ANY MSM reporter had the BALLS to ask ANY of the Democrats about how Bush could have mislead them on Iraq, back in 1998! If the information is that readily available to ANYBODY capable of using Google, I am left with the opinion that the Main Stream Media in this country is actively supporting the Democratic Party and is actively engaged in an effort to undermine the elected government of the United States. Unless you guys/galls in the MSM show me otherwise, that is what the facts lead me to believe.
Don’t believe me? Take the fact the Mr. Wilson has been debunked by the 9-11 Commission, yet all last week he was on every major network as the guest of honor. The man is a liar and has been shown to be a liar. His report and main premise has been ripped to shreds, but that did not stop the MSM from fawning all over him.
Still don’t believe me? There are some who are beginning to question whether the entire Wilson affair was orchestrated by the CIA to undermine and discredit the Bush administration. Just watch as the MSM totally ignores this developing story. I cant hear you….lalalalalala.
Again, I grow tired of pointing this out every other week.
3. The MSM actually does “out” a highly classified prison network run by the CIA and pats itself on its back. What? No shock and horror that the sanctity of classified people and operations have been compromised? Nope. None. Again, I am left with the feeling that the MSM is doing what ever it can to ensure our defeat in the war on terror and to undermine a duely elected government of the United States.
But, watch as the MSM fights to the death to defend the very actions that they are currently damming Scooter, Rove and Chaney to hell for. The MSM will claim that it is in the national interest to uncover and expose such un-American activities as ghost prisons, while at the same time claiming it was an unpardonable sin to “out” an agent who may or may not have been undercover in an attempt to counter outright lies and fabrications against the government of the United States.
I grow tired of pointing this out every other week.
That was all just last week. This happens on a continuous loop. How many times can I point out the hostility of the MSM to America, religion, any war and Republicans?
If I have not been posting much lately, it is that I have grown so very tired of having to say the same things over and over again.
But.
If I grow weary and the next blogger grows weary and this continues until the big name Conservative bloggers grow weary…then the MSM and their buds in the Democratic Party will have won and we will be left with the MSM passing forged “fake but accurate” documents to the unsuspecting American public.
Sure, I am tired of all this, but something tells me that in a few days I will get my blogging mojo back. So stick with me.
Blogging seems to be like driving on a long trip. There reaches a point in any trip where you, as the driver, are doing all you can to stay awake. You smack your face, sing loudly, roll the window down, yet you still keep nodding off. But somehow, if you don’t end up in a ditch, you get passed the tiredness and hit your driving groove. Right now I am smacking my blog face and singing really off-key, but I will shack it off and hit my blogging groove once more.
17 Responses to “How Many Times?”

But if you stop blogging, I will lose my sole source of news and information. Plus I will not know what I am supposed to think regarding the issues.
You blog for me, Mike. And all the others like me who are too lazy…er, i mean busy, to think for themselves.
There can be no higher calling.
Hang in there. A guy who writes as well as you do is always a welcomed read.
Remember that the Left has no trouble repeating themselves even when it’s a lie. So those of us, with at least half a brain, must continue to counter their statements.
Besides, a grad from Georgia Tech, back when it was an engineering college, should be able to speak his mind.
I hear you, man. There’s always times you get down and lose the will to blog. But it’s like you said - check out your traffic. You get a lot of play for what you’re talking about, and you write well. The message is getting out.
Ultimately, though, I think you do this because you love to do it. You love reaching out through the computer to continue the conversation with all these people you’ve never met but feel like you’re starting to know. That’s what shows and that’s why you get the traffic and the feedback. You’re on the right track.
The Dark November Of The Blogging Soul
Wunderkraut’s unhappy: Maybe all bloggers go through this at some point. This must be where most give up, while others stick it out. You reach a point where you have written about the things that most interest you and you…
You see, that’s why, by and large, I have decided not to blog politics. There are so many folks out there who are more eloquent than I on these issues. And they get to it far quicker than I do.
I prefer to stay in my lane and talk about what I know. It’s more fun too.
However, you have a very sharp eye for commentary and it’s good. It’d be a shame if you signed off.
And lookee there. You done got yourself another link from Ace. A sure sign that you must not quit. Blog on!
I’m where you’re at right now, Mike. Been there for a couple weeks, too.
It comes and goes. Just allow yourself to roll with the downtime when the inspiration isn’t there. There’s something exotic about a blog that goes dark for a few days at a time.
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politics f%&^ing suck. Everyone is too damn concerned about how the president may be lying or why we’re really doing what we’re doing overseas. Y’know, the U.S. is still at war in Korea. We just aren’t shooting at the moment. The politicians don’t say anything about that, but one little fire fight in the middle east and they get in an uproar. The founding fathers didn’t mean for this to happen. The different branches of the government are supposed to work together not blame each other.
Don’t stop blogging. Your one of the few these days that actually seems to care about stuff. Stick it out and you’ll be alright.
I started blogging in January. I’m now on my 4th blog, due to making some horrific mistakes in previous blogs. Each blog took steps in slightly different, and slightly better directions from the ones before. I feel like I’m starting to get a handle on the process, and more importantly, I feel like I’m communicating better. If it helps to smack yourself in the face, go to it!
Even if nobody reads or cares, I get to vent. My family won’t let me watch TV with them anymore. Maybe, eventually, I will stop screaming at the news.
Yes, it’s a war of attrition, and they’re hoping to tire us out. And blogging is a marathon, with no finish line.
Maybe we should all treat ourselves to one of these.
Thanks for all the encouragement. Nah, I am not going to quit. I have too much fun writing…that is….when I have actual ideas and things to write about. Sometimes it just takes something different to happen or for someone to phrase something just right for an idea/rant/foaming at the mouth episode…you get the point.
Laxpat: Screaming at the TV is why I have this blog. I started scaring the kids.
Neo-neocon: Glad you have come to the dark side! And yes, maybe I need to get some motivational stuff for my office…just not this stuff.
Suzi: Thanks for your input. This is kind of my second attempt at this. The first attempt was not so much of a blog as a bulletin board where I thumb tacked stuff I liked reading. BTW, your broccoli and shrimp fried rice looked awesome.
Nightfly: Yeah traffic has been good, but that was because my fingers were on fire in Sept. and Oct. from typing like a monkey on crack. Problem is… I’ve got nothing. But it will come back. It always does.
Again, thanks to all my readers and all your comments. You are one of the reasons for me continuing to blog. One day about 4 months ago, I woke up and read some comments and realized that I had regular readers!!!! That was when it got fun.
It’s OK to pull over and rest once in a while, it keeps you from crashing.
Take a rest, and get back to it!
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