Liberty Reborn

It is coming. At 2pm South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford is going to address the media with regards to his audacity to take a little respite without daring to inform the media exactly where he was going so that they could blurb it on their sites and in their papers. Yes, the saga of the vanishing governor has certainly generated a lot of media attention by the media themselves trying to get answers as to why they were not kept continually informed as to exactly what Governor Sanford was doing at every given moment. They were going through withdrawal not being told what cereal he ate for breakfast and what color his latest poop was apparently.

Let us recap some important facts. The legislative session in South Carolina is over. That means no bills for the Governor to sign so he was not needed for this. It is not a time of year when hurricanes are going to potentially be slamming into the coast of the state and the Governor would not be needed to roll out emergency supplies. The people of South Carolina are, in general, adults. This means that they do not need their Governor to constantly tell them what to do so he was not needed for this either. There has also been a huge deal made about the fact that he chose to go somewhere, again without telling the media, over Father’s Day. As though Father’s Day were some sort of important holiday for people other than golf courses, greeting card companies and restaurants flooded with siblings trying to show some appreciation to the man who not only brought them into this world but can also take them out of it. Apparently he changed his mind about hiking the Appalachian Trail or (the horror) purposefully lied to his staff because he knew that they would not be able to keep a secret from the ever vigilant (sarcasm intended) media when pressed.

Now we have a media created scandal on our hands. Yes, barring anything short of Mr. Sanford stepping up to the microphones shortly and saying that he was visiting his South American Mistress (which I actually do believe he will), that is all that we have. Maybe I will be surprised and learn that this is actually what he was doing and laud the press for their vigilance in tracking him down and getting to the heart of it all. We shall see.

Yes, the media is all over Governor Sanford for daring to vanish. Yet at the same time they are nearly silent, if not complicit (ABC I mean you), as America is vanishing before our eyes. The government is taking over private industry and seeking control of health care beyond the powers granted to them in the U.S. Constitution. Our government has spend billions of dollars to pay off companies that do not deserve to survive after making bad business choices. Our debt is ballooning.

And Mark Sanford is the hot story? Hey Mainstream Media! What about the case of the vanishing country we used to call the United States where liberty once existed? How about covering that story and demanding that our leaders answer the hard questions on that issue huh?

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