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[This is part two of media in America.]

 

You were probably like me in 2008 when there was a difficult choice between two excellent candidates for president. Actually, there were three excellent candidates for president if you include John McLain, but on the Democratic side you had Obama and Hillary. Obama was a relative newcomer but had the brains and charisma and heart and passion and that certain je ne sais quoi quality that is incredibly rare. Meanwhile, Hillary was an overly qualified presidential candidate. As a former First Lady who actually worked during her husband‘s presidency in running the country and former United States senator, she had as much domestic policy experience combined with foreign policy experience than anyone I could think of.

 

Two amazingly worthy candidates, which made it difficult to decide who to support. That is both a good problem to have and a bad problem.

 

Which leads me to a similar problem that Texas is now facing with the candidacies of Jasmine Crockett and James Tallarico. Ms. Crockett, much like Mrs. Clinton, has an abundance of experience and name recognition and national exposure, as well as the Party leadership behind her. Much like Hillary did. Mr. Tallarico is a supremely gifted speaker, a man of real faith, a passionate advocate for those who need advocacy the most, and has qualities much like Obama did albeit with even less experience.

 

And if you remember back to 2008, the Republicans wanted badly to run against Obama and not Hillary. They took out ads against Hillary for the primary. And we are seeing a rerun of that now. Allow me to explain.

 

Stephen Colbert had an interview of Mr. Tallarico which was to air last week. The only people who would have seen it would’ve been the Colbert fans which average roughly 2.5 million per night.

 

But then CBS went full-on Streisand effect. They ordered Colbert not to air the interview. Which, like clockwork, made the interview go viral with, at my last look, over 11 million views on YouTube alone.

 

The initial reaction was that CBS (now a subsidiary of Trump and the Republican Party) was trying to hurt Mr. Tallarico. But my take is that the GOP/CBS was trying to and did help Tallarico immensely. Why? Same reason they tried to help Obama sixteen years ago; they thought he’d be easier to beat.

 

The games have begun.  Big-time.

 

[Our Seismic Slam podcast is tonight but was taped on Friday. So, no commentary on this latest Middle East war.]