I would encourage you to check out Media Matters to get some sense of the breadth and depth of deception in the popular media on this and other issues.

And posting that gives me an excuse to post Jon Stewart’s impression of Glenn Beck from a few weeks ago (it’s 13 minutes, but well worth watching).

Rachel Maddow also had similar sentiments.

(For the slow learners out there, climate and weather are not the same thing. You were supposed to have learned this in second grade.)

Then, again, last night there were similar similarities (yes, that’s intentional) between The Daily Show and The Colbert Report’s reports on the response of Republicans (and Admiral Ackbar) to President Obama’s invitation to participate in a televised bipartisan summit on health care reform.

Well, it’s funny anyway.

The man has become a caricature of himself… well, at the very least Jon Stewart has become a caricature of him.

This is pretty funny too.

Similarly, a few years ago the Republicans decried the use of the filibuster while the Democrats defended it. Now, with the current Republican minority breaking a record for filibusters, the roles are reversed. The same holds true for the President’s judicial appointments, Medicare expansion, deficit spending, Wall Street bailouts, the farm bill, etc.

Aside from the social issues that the parties use as a wedge but never actually do anything about, there is really not much that either party stands for now; nor much of substance that differentiates them from each other. Rather, each party happily does the bidding of their lobbyist overlords, each framing the gifts as something that has always been at core of their party’s platform.