This is why we need to be smarter

Since when is the Indian press a legitimate source of American news? Ironic that it is the GOP, the party that is "dedicated" to "saving American jobs from outsourcing" that is now outsourcing its sources.

Well, there is a reason why we dont generally look to the Indian press from American political news and unfortunately, our worthless media set cant even see that nowadays.

I expect the Republicans, especially the nuts on the right like Bachmann and Huckabee, to be dump (and devious) enough to go on the air quoting an Indian report that the Obama trip to Asia is costing $200 million a day. What I did not expect, and what I think is indicative of where we've dropped to as a nation, is that the press would treat this as an even quasi-legitimate argument.

Not to mention the fact that the same article erroneously said that 10% of the entire US Navy is off the coast of Mumbai for security, this is an absurd perversion of the national discourse. It is a distraction from reality and a feeble attempt at ignoring the responsibility that this so-called "mandate" election has no placed on the good ole' party of no.

What is sad is that our media, the barrier to American stupidity, is no longer able to leave these stories to the tabloids. Even though Anderson Cooper thankfully noted that the facts and figures Bachmann brought forth in his interview of her are highly exaggerated, the mere fact that CNN allowed her interview to air is indicative of how bad things have gotten. Whether we like it or not, the press has to stop people like this from saying things like this. Because now that Bachmann got her 15 minutes of fame, a couple hundred thousand Americans will believe that the US Navy is now off the coast of Mumbai and that their tax dollars are going to fund rooms at the Taj (better expenditure than tax cuts for the wealthy, at least its a nice hotel).

As with anything having to do with the perversion of democracy that is 21st century America, I could go on and on. It is sad that our nation, the beacon of hope for the 20th century, is now the disaster that it is, the laughing stock of the western world. Come on America, wake up already.