If you ever doubt that the media is the problem, grasp what took place in last week's debate between Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
No, we're not talking about Candy Crowley's ridiculous effort to fact check.
The debate last week was about domestic and foreign policy.
You may remember the high horses that a number of journalists have mounted in the last months. 'Mitt didn't mention Iraq in his speech!' 'Barack didn't talk about the wars!'
This was a debate on foreign policy and there were no questions about either the Iraq War or the Afghanistan War.
Now you can pretend, if you'd like, that the Iraq War is over.
To do that, you'd have to ignore what Tim Arango (New York Times) reported September 26th:
Iraq and the United States are negotiating an agreement that could result in the return of small units of American soldiers to Iraq on training missions. At the request of the Iraqi government, according to General Caslen, a unit of Army Special Operations soldiers was recently deployed to Iraq to advise on counterterrorism and help with intelligence.
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But you can pretend. Even if you do that, do you realize how many billions the US State Department is spending in Iraq and plans to continue to spend for many years to come?
That foreign spending? It does have an impact on what we can't afford in the US and on how much deeper in debt we go to pay for these illegal wars.
Candy Crowley looked, last week, like she'd just spent three hours chowing down at The Sizzler without ever once haviing hit the salad bar. She looked very impressed with herself, like she'd really accomplished something.
If she thought what she selected from the ridiculous questions submitted indicated intelligence on her part or skill, she was sorely mistaken.
What it indicated was that she dabbles in current events and has no real grasp or understanding of what's taken place and is taking place in the world in which we live.
She also ensured that her peers looked as stupid as she did.
Mere weeks ago, they were hectoring Barack and Mitt about forgetting wars, refusing to mention them and when the press had the chance to get questions asked, the ignored the wars to instead focus on crap like AK-47s.
What a proud moment for Candy and company if the point was to telegraph just how embarrassing the news media has become.