Spin City!

The right to speak, write or otherwise present a point of view is protected by the First Amendment of our Constitution and the “spin” of those presentations is everywhere! You read it in the newspapers, hear it on the radio, see it on television, follow it on Twitter, hear it from professors, experience it through Internet searches and on and on and on. Your consumption, of that information, determines the type of “spin” you experience … and … make no mistake — these personal experiences profoundly form your view of life!

I wish there was no “spin” involved at all in the media. Wouldn’t it be nice to just get the “unvarnished truth”? Reporting seems to have become more of an art form with heightened dramatic effect … as opposed to a strict reporting of the facts. When I was young, I tended to trust everything presented as news because these were “trusted” journalists or reporters that had the “best interests of our country” in mind … right? I was trusting, naive and too busy to spend a lot of time checking things out. Now, I know better and it makes me wonder what all I have missed!

The reality is … IT IS SPIN CITY OUT THERE! We are being pummeled by agendas, demonstrations, talking heads and the presidential “Bully Pulpit”. As a result, our voting decisions are often based on sound bites and 30 second ads. We are seduced by slick talkers with lofty, deceptive rhetoric and mountains of promises.

It is time to ask more questions, turn over more rocks, examine the issues and scrutinize the candidates with an equally sized magnifying glass. Most of all … we MUST examine ourselves! We need to know who we are, what we believe in and what we want this country to be.

To that end, this site will join a growing number of conservative views (“spins” if you will) based on personal experience, observations and research. You may not agree with everything you see here … whether it is my lame attempt at humor or another site’s statistics, but we may learn a tidbit here and there … and in so doing … we may also learn a little bit more about ourselves.