Thought Control
Moguls Will Not Permit Debate

San Francisco Chronicle -- October 22  Candidates don't talk about immigration      As they enter the home stretch of the campaign, Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain undoubtedly hope to escape any serious questions on the topic. Both surely breathed a sigh of relief last week when the final debate ended and the elephant in America's living room had gone unmentioned.     CBS news veteran Bob Schieffer, following the template set by PBS's Jim Lehrer and Gwen Ifill and NBC's Tom Brokaw, allowed the candidates to avoid even a single tough question about immigration policy, a subject that both senators are loathe to take on in front of 70 million viewers of all political and ethnic stripes.     It was a disgraceful journalistic failure.     Immigration permeates virtually every domestic problem facing the nation today: health care, education, jobs and the environment; it also factors into national security and foreign policy. Given the size of the foreign-born population in the United States today - more than 40 million - it's difficult to imagine any policy initiative succeeding that did not first address the fundamentals of immigration.     American Patrol Comment: Just as we said. There were three elephants in the room that Shieffer refused to recognize. The moguls who control the media won’t allow debate over immigration and we need no more evidence of their power and how desperate our situation really is.