An earlier version of this originally appeared on my Google+ profile last night after the final televised GOP presidential debate -- given the benefit of time, and coffee, I've expanded on my thoughts below.

Just came to my attention that Holly Madison tweeted a link to my NDAA article to her 976,000 followers. She's a great American and a patriot for doing so.

And actor John Cusack, although I don't think he's aware of my particular article (not important), tweeted a link to Matt Taibbi's excellent piece on Rolling Stone's site about NDAA and what it all means. Taibbi was one of the earliest to bring this to the attention of a shocked American public.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin used his Google+ page to publicly condemn SOPA: "I am shocked that our lawmakers would contemplate such measures that would put us on a par with the most oppressive nations in the world." (Emphasis mine.)

Last night FOX News failed us (no big surprise there, right?) by not mentioning NDAA or SOPA even once during the entire GOP debate... Somehow legislation that destroys the freedom of speech, and dismantles the Bill of Rights, didn't seem important to their crack team of "journalists," yet rambling on about the imaginary tens of millions of "illegals" who are trying to come to America to steal our non-existent well-paying factory jobs... yeah, that got plenty of airtime.

The mainstream media continues to fail the American people in a way that is frankly not acceptable. But at least celebrities and influential entertainers are doing their part to spread the word before it's all over. Mogul Russell Simmons has also been warning his legion of Twitter fans about NDAA.

And still the broadcast media does not care to tackle this?

MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes recently tweeted: "Hard, ugly truth about NDAA: restrictions on civil liberties are politically popular. Our political culture is security-obsessed."

With all due respect, sir, you are wrong.

It is YOUR JOB to sound the alarm and warn the American people when something is truly a threat to their liberty, their way of life, and even their lives.

If your colleagues on other networks spent even a TENTH of the Mass Media OutrageTM that was dedicated to Casey Anthony, or to the imaginary "War on Christmas" that Bill O'Reilly and his harem of attractive blonde on-air experts like to fret about on FOX, Americans would get the message. We aren't dumb; we're distracted.

Joe Six-pack doesn't spend eight hours a day browsing political tweets. He doesn't carefully pore over constitutional law analysis from Glenn Greenwald on Salon.com, or participate in Ron Paul libertarian-leaning discussion forums, and he doesn't know who the hell Matt Taibbi is.

It is your job, therefore, as a news anchor whose content is distributed to millions of viewers each night, to warn people.

"Hey, guess what? A bill is about to be signed into law by President Obama that would allow his administration to take you in the middle of the night, without charge and without access to a trial or attorney. It would allow for indefinite military detention of American citizens on US soil, which Jesus probably would not approve of. Screw the War on Christmas, there's a war being fought right now to strip all 307 million Americans of their most basic constitutionally guaranteed civil rights. And you don't even know about it."

It'd be great if every major anchor said something to that effect, giving the American people at least a hint of what's going down, before reverting to coverage of Kim Kardashian saying and doing nothing of importance.

UPDATE: They are slow as molasses oozing down a frozen tree, but The New York Times finally brought out the big guns. Read their editorial about NDAA and President Obama's decision, which was published today. I've never seen them so angry and disturbed.