Our oh, so prissy oldline media, having done their best to gin up faux outrage over the Romneys securing their dog in a carrier on their car during a family vacation years ago, now are being forced to deal with the revelation (from Barack Obama himself) that the future president ate dog while a child in Indonesia. Both dog stories, of course, have less than nothing to do with which man would be the better president over the next four years.
But they do shine an instructive light on the shenanigans the media will stoop to in order to influence an election that should be over much more serious issues. Even better, from my perspective, they open our pompous president up to something he has faced very little of since coming onto the national scene–political ridicule, which is the last thing the media wanted. Remember, folks, politics is dog eat dog.
About Stan Guthrie
Stan Guthrie is an editor at large for Christianity Today magazine and for the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview. His latest book is God's Story in 66 Verses. He also is author of All that Jesus Asks: How His Questions Can Teach and Transform Us, Missions in the Third Millennium: 21 Key Trends for the 21st Century, and A Concise Guide to Bible Prophecy. He is co-author of The Sacrament of Evangelism. Besides authoring, writing, and editing books, Stan is a literary agent, bringing together good authors, good books, and good publishers.
Stan writes the monthly Priorities colum for BreakPoint.org. He has appeared on National Public Radio's Tell Me More, WGN's Milt Rosenberg program, and many Christian shows, including The Eric Metaxas Show and Moody Radio's New Day Florida. A licensed minister and an inspirational speaker, he served as moderator for the Christian Book Expo panel discussion, Does the God of Christianity Exist, and What Difference Does It Make?
