News is not unbiased anymore. The tendency towards bias crept in a long time ago. You read news these days and wonder what in the world are they thinking when they write it? The other day it was CNBC’s reporter Darren Rovell who wrote such an idiotic and racist article that it left me wondering if anyone ever proofread any of these things anymore? Then I moved on. News is news. I dont let it influence the inner-cosmic thoughts and frame of mind.

Now the latest is the news about “Obama’s ratings at an all time low”. First of all, who are the morons that these biased news channels interview to gather such dumb polls? How many of the dumb morons that were involved in the poll know that both the Obama’s were Harvard Graduates? Obama earned his presidency, George W just got it handed down from his daddy.

First off, the country is in a deep financial mess and there is more than one reason for it. When Bush was President, he concentrated on making sure that the companies he was vested with did good. That includes the oil and weapon making industries. It was a personal agenda so outrageously planned and yet no one could do anything about it but wait for him to complete his term. Gas was an unbelievable 4$/gallon! companies were in a free fall. You couldn’t tell which company would be hit the next day. Iraq war was another big burden. Real estate was plundered by greedy stock brokers and banks, who had no clue what it will lead to in the future and equally dumb general public who bought into the lucrative mortgages. This is a kind of mess that will take years to even stabilize. Obama came and I haven’t seen a single company go into that free fall spiral yet.Bush took the first 6 months of presidency as a leave of absence to go play on his texas ranch. And Obama has done so much in 8 months but ratings fall? We know why.

Because news is biased. They need people to read. The number of clicks matter. They need controversy. Plus the general public in my opinion is very fickle minded. They are so fickle minded that someone as dumb and insanely stupid as Sarah Palin can actually write a book and sell millions of copies of it and get big receptions on her “Book Tour”. That thought itself gives me jitters!!

So coming back to the Obama ratings – He acted on Guantanamo Bay, traveled to more countries in 8 months than Bush did in his entire first term, and yet was able to share a beer with a police officer like a normal man. Michelle Obama continues to pleasantly surprise me. She is such a warm character…her involvement in the healthy eating for kids campaign, plus growing a organic vegetable garden for the “first” time at the white house, and yet again, trying to mingle with heads of state in an equally easy tone. I have never seen a more able minded first couple. They have their work cut out for them and they are working towards a better America and not towards a betterment of their own ratings. Alas! The fickleminded citizens will not get this. They expect recovery to come like a lightning bolt.

I don’t know about the rest of the readers but I am an avid fan of the “Iron chef” Series as well as the “Next Iron Chef” on Food Network. Its been an interesting season but the most interesting part for me was that an Indian made it to the finals. Jehangir Mehta will be battling Jose Garces in the Kitchen Stadium – the episode airs this sunday night at 9pm.

Jose Garces is throwing a “viewing” party at his famous west philly restaurant “Distrito” from 8.30pm onwards. I am planning to attend..cannot miss an iron chef’s food (ah wait…we dont know that yet ) An American chef born to Ecuadorian parents and raised in Chicago, Chef Garces began his culinary training in the kitchen of his paternal grandmother. In developing his personal cooking style, something he says is an ongoing pursuit, Garces spent years perfecting different cuisines in top rated professional kitchens.

I am personally rooting for Mehta though, who owns a restaurant in NYC called “Graffiti”. He’s a creative genius, one of the hardest working men in the food biz, eloquent and also truly a nice guy. A visit to his restaurant Graffiti will confirm it all. Chef Jehangir Mehta opened Graffiti in the East Village of New York City in 2007 after being highly acclaimed at New York City restaurants including Aix, Compass, and Jean-Georges.