I’ve decided to rename mainstream journalism as “The Needia.” The Needia needs us, you and me, to push the President to pound his fist, froth at the mouth and give them an angry soundbite to replay again, again and again. Rational thought never sells airspace like ranting. Conversation falls short of hostility when it comes to booking commercials. Bellicosity is better at selling add space then poised balance. An outraged Obama means increased viewers and sales.

Why? Because we dig hotheads, loudmouths and devils and the Needia needs Nielsen numbers. The networks see dollars in a seething Head of State. A boiling Obama equals big bucks. Period.

Don’t buy into it, don’t be distracted. Growling isn’t going to help the Gulf or it’s people. We don’t need him to go off, we just need him to go to the scene of the spill.

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Roger Stephens, 61, was arrested Monday and charged with first-degree cruelty to children after allegedly slapping a crying two-year-old girl in a suburban Atlanta Walmart.

Are you kidding me?

CNN is reporting, that the child’s mother told police that her daughter was crying as they walked down one of the aisles. A stranger, later identified as Stephens allegedly told her,  “If you don’t shut the baby up, I will shut her up for you.”

Making good on his promise, just a few minutes he held the girl and smacked her across her face four or five times.

I don’t even know what to type next. A total stranger repeatedly smacks a two-year-old girl for crying? What?

He has been charged with first-degree cruelty to children; someone please tell me this is a felony.