Film star and director Woody Allen says President Bush's argument for war against Iraq is unconvincing, according to French weekly newspaper Journal du Dimanche. Allen told the newspaper in an interview that Bush had squandered America's post-September 11th goodwill because "he has no idea about anything."

Now, this is amazingly disturbing. Has it actually come to this, where the media believes that the opinion of a once talented comedian whose era has disappeared deserves more consideration than the President of the United States? How has it come to pass that society finds it important to care about what this pedophile has to say about anything let alone his opinion on our country’s leader.

I am here to say that it is unacceptable for the mainstream media to hold the opinions of such societal elitists as Woody Allen, Alec Baldwin, Cher, Barbara Streisand and Rosie O’Donnell, just to name a few, higher than the opinions of those in a position to know every aspect of those subjects that face our country today. And no, this is not a one-time media slip-up. It happens daily. Alec Baldwin says he will move if George W. Bush is elected (he hasn’t of course). Cher uses profanity to describe George W. Bush. Rosie O’Donnell ignores every offer to explain the world issues and instead attacks George W. Bush the man in spite of the truth. And now we have Woody Allen, a one-time comedian and once talented director who turned the corner of morality and divorced his wife in order to marry his adopted step-daughter (a societal blunder the likes of Roman Polanski) who believes that there is a place in the world for him to criticize the leader of the free world, a man I may add who is in a healthy marriage, who attends church regularly and who nurtures and advocates being decent to our fellow man and who daily asks us all to give of ourselves for those less fortunate than ourselves. I blame the mainstream media for allowing this to happen.

Progressively the mainstream media has departed from where it came from. As our country was fighting to free itself from the tyranny of the British Crown all those years ago the media served a purpose that was noble, although I am sure the Brits didn’t take a liking to them at the time. The media shined a light on the truth going to great pains to make sure that they enlightened the public honestly, fairly and without bias. In those early years as well as in the years that ensued they were an integral part of a noble cause. Throughout time they stepped forward to uncover greatness the likes of Lindbergh and Pasteur and to expose amazing heresy like the horrors of the Holocaust and the Khmer Rouge. It even exposed the evils of a paranoid administration with the discovery of Watergate* but this is where the frail gray line of nobility and self-serving elitism was shattered.

Today we are inundated on a daily basis with newspapers and news shows that are more interested in the almighty dollar through ratings and circulation than in informing the public truthfully, with integrity and without any "spin”. Today it is left up to the individual to try and disseminate what is truthful and what could be retracted to weeks later on page thirty-two two in a small box under the electrolysis ad. Today, in my opinion, the mainstream media has no honor, no integrity and no intension of enlightening the public with honesty and the truth. Today the media is all about the business of making more money, achieving higher ratings, a better circulation and getting the story first (and that’s just what they are today – stories) no matter how inaccurate or inane it may be. Today to find nobility and an elevated sense of societal morality and ethics in the mainstream news media is a rarity, and that is a very sad statement indeed.

But today as I read that Woody Allen gets the spotlight from the mainstream news media so he can spew his warped and misguided thought that our President "has no idea about anything” I chastise the mainstream news media but wonder if it isn’t our fault, the readers and viewers that is. If we were not to accept their insults, leftist spin and innuendo, if we stood up and demanded the truth, if we expressed our anger to the media and their sponsors for being fed non-truths and editorialized opinions disguised as news items, if we stopped buying the rags that express the opinions of those who I equate to being warts upon our earth (Allen, Baldwin, Streisand, etc.) perhaps they would have to return to the noble adventure that once was our American news media. Until then I guess we will have to hear the ravings of those who would marry their children. Right Mr. Allen?

* (I believe that Richard Nixon did more for the good of this country by elevating our relationship with China and Russia than he ever could have done harm to it with Watergate)

Frank Salvato is a political media consultant and the managing editor for The New Media Journal.us. He is a contributing writer for The Washington Dispatch, GOPUSA, OpinionEditorials, Men’s News Daily, Canada Free Press & AmericanDaily. His pieces are regularly featured in Townhall.com. He has appeared as a guest on The O’Reilly Factor, The Kevin Matthews Radio Show (Chicago) and The Brad Messer Radio Show (San Antonio). His pieces have been recognized by the Japan Center for Conflict Prevention and are occasionally featured in The Washington Times and The London Morning Paper as well as other national and international publications.