My monthly political post.........

I'm annoyed far too often by the need the news networks have to focus far too often on the extreme kooks of the political spectrum.

Religious right says something stupid? You can be sure it'll be shown.

Glenn Beck saying something stupid? Yep, it'll be on TV repeatedly.

Any Hollywood political wanna-be's make a dumb statement? Oh, it's definitely gonna be on.

While we're presented with all of the various forms of stupidity on both sides of the argument, there are solid, well-informed arguments that aren't presented at all to the public. Why? Because they're solid, well-informed arguments that require far too much thought to properly assess. Who wants to waste time thinking through the possible solutions to the problems facing our country?

With that, I present a speech by George Will. You don't have to agree with what he's saying to know that he's done a great job of assessing the problems and presents his ideas about those problems in a well-reasoned speech that still provides sharp wit to keep the audience's interest. It's a 30 minute speech, but it never is boring. Would it be too much to ask the gossip-like news networks to present more of this instead of the stupidity that they currently circulate?

George Will's Speech