Jack Cafferty Has No Place In News

It seems like clockwork. Every time I watch a CNN news report that involves Jack Cafferty, I immediately brace myself for a barrage of negative emails, assuming the topical question involves Bush or McCain. In the case that the question has anything to do with Barack Obama or any of his Democratic buddies or positions I know to prepare for a love-fest. It's disturbing to me that someone who asks a question to the public and publishes its email replies could do so in such an unbalanced manner. Cafferty makes absolutely no attempt to present viewers (or readers on CNNs website) with an even distribution of positive and negative emails, no matter the subject. The latest incident that got under my skin was his online file of responses to this wildly leading and unbalanced question:

"Here’s my question to you: Does John McCain undercut his own message by naming someone even younger and more inexperienced than Barack Obama to be his running mate?"

Only one of the eight emails that he highlights is a positive response to the Palin choice. AGH! Cafferty and so many of his media friends are so blatantly unbalanced that I have difficult time rationalizing turning on CNN or MSNBC (Can one be more brazenly anti-Republican than Keith Olbermann?) and telling anyone that I'm watching the "news". The state of American media is flat out depressing.

The Great Debate

For seemingly forever the Christian Church has been entangled in a great debate about the method of attaining salvation. There are two distinct sides in this debate: 1) God predestines who his followers will be and 2) We have free will to choose if we want to accept salvation from God. My question is: Why can't both be true? God is the God of impossibilities and unlikely happenings. Jesus is considered to have been fully man, yet fully God when he walked the streets of Israel. The Bible has clear scripture stating both positions, yet there is not a debate between Christians who believe he's only man and Christians who believe he's only God. Jesus walked on water. He turned water into wine. He rose from the dead. Um, none of these things are remotely possible. Yet they happened nonetheless. Jesus came to earth as a homeless baby. He claimed that the first is actually last and the last is actually first. He had to die so that when we die we actually become more alive. Um, none of that makes any sense. Yet, that's what the Bible says happened. Is it too difficult to believe that God chose his followers infinity ago yet his followers have a complete choice in the matter? if the Bible seems to clearly express both ideas, then I must come to the conclusion that both ideas are true, no matter how nonsensical that seems.