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Still at the number one spot on Amazon.com is the book by John O'Neill and Jerome Corsi, Unfit For Command.

I have commented directly on Kerry before; nothing I have seen since has improved the man's image in my eyes. In fact, my opinion of Kerry has gotten worse: I think he may have been nominated solely based on the very deep pockets of his wife. When other candidates were running out of money and dropping out of the race, Theresa was still selling lots of ketchup.

John Kerry has the potential to unmask the entire Left in America. Being all style and no substance has its perks, to be sure. But they are illusory benefits, and if unmasked have the potential to expose the core of leftist philosophy, socialism itself: the idea that the productive members of society will support the slovenly, that the evil will be given life by the good, merely because those who would provide the support are productive and good. It is based on the premise that those who contribute to society in meaningful ways ought to be the willing slaves of those who leech upon society.

As John Kerry's Cambodia story unravels, hard on the heels of the exposure of Joe Wilson as a liar, the twisted spin put on by the NY Times and other major media to the 9/11 commission (which concluded that Bush was not lying to bring the nation to war with Iraq, merely acting on intelligence no better than the intelligence available prior to 9/11 about that horrible day), and counterexamples of press hysteria over the Bush administration too "numbrous" to list here, the mainstream media's bias is abundantly clear.

Big media organizations make haughty claims about "independence" and "objectivity". Such claims are worthy goals, but they are hardly the case in practice. It has been this way for a long time, but the blogosphere is establishing a check-and-balance on the media itself. The Swift Boats Veterans for Truth ad is getting out there due in large part to the power of the hyperlink.

That power will only increase, as more and more users blog for themselves, interconnecting the vast web of information available to us in real time, as history unfolds for our digital cameras.

So the big media organizations have aligned themselves with the Democrats, big time, and the blogosphere is filling the void of objectivity by representing the whole political spectrum.

The question becomes, why? What would lead the Press to embrace the sick philosophy of the Left? Could it be that it is the mainstream media itself that is all style and no substance? No wonder they studiously avoid the Kerry-in-Cambodia story. They might actually have to be objective.