Monday, May 7, 2018
Stormy Daniels News Not High on My Priority List
I got up this morning and flicked on the TV news...guess what they were talking about? The Stormy Daniels affair, Trump lawyers Michael Cohen and Rudy Giuliani and what they said, along with what the president said. Excuse me, but in the grand scheme of things...who cares? Years before he ran for president, Trump had a brief affair with this stripper/porn star and had Cohen pay her $130,000 to keep her mouth shut about it. This rather seedy business nonetheless, at least on the surface, has the appearance of legal propriety. At first, naturally, the president denied any involvement with Daniels...now the affair seems to be acknowledged by all sides. But while I'm disappointed that a man with such a low moral compass was elected to be my president...and sadly with the full support of many who claim to hold personal morality and accountability as important traits in their leaders (quite a few of whom took Clinton to task about Monica Lewinsky)...this simply does not merit, in my opinion, continual coverage on the news channels. Stormy Daniels is not a Russian agent and has nothing whatsoever to do with the much more serious issue of past and potentially future Russian interference in our elections, which should always be front and center stage. But there are other issues as well that actually affect us in our lives and will determine our future in this country and on this planet...for example, climate change should be getting much, much coverage than the meager amount it gets. And other issues like firearms regulation (authorized under the Second Amendment) and our national immigration policy only seem to come up whenever there is a shooting spree, demonstrations, or a Trump tweet. The televised news media seem nowadays only to react to prompts from others instead of proactively investigating in detail the important issues of our day and producing informative and compelling journalism...
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