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As an aside, I wonder if people think they would be singing a different toon if Bush had high approval ratings? I wonder if the song would be something like "thank God those swiftboaters got rid of that Kerry guy so we could have more of the Bush years". Revisionist history is always interesting to read.
And lets remember that it was NYT's reporter Judith Miller who lied about Iraq to get us into war. The NYT has lost credibility with me a long time ago.
Pay no attention to the corps behind the curtain...
Did you notice Mrs. Greenspan implying that John was part of a conspiracy to question McCain's credentials?
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/07/02/draft-...
The press is so much in the Repub pocket that they figure it must be some kind of conspiracy if people start asking about whether McCain's war time bondage qualifies as presidential experience.
2nd half, where does the money go, in part, the meadea (radio, teevee, print)
john, you and others, have recounted countless times when the meadea has failed, especially from 2000 to now
why should they be supported in any way ?? have they acknowledged their complicity ?? when we ask if the fourth estate has become a fifth column, do they understand why ?? have they changed the way they do the news (stenography is NOT journalism) ??
is the dabate about character or policy ?? have they completely ignored important issues and stories over and over and given us fiflth, gossip, inuendo, and missing white women to the detriment of informing the general electorate in a appropriate fashion ??
why should we (as campaign supporters) give money to people running for office, for them to give money (as paid advertisements) to the institutions that have repeatedly failed us, time and time again ??
Your words are hollow. We appreciate them, each other but they wont amount to anything to change the current trajectery.
If you looked around my office, you'd say "It's the salesmen who ruined this country."
(You might be right, too. Most of them seem to have voted for Bush.)
The history between these two was deep and heated and yet, nobody even mentioned it. Liberal media????? how so????
It is the same delusion that many media professionals use to explain away their eroding credibility with the general public. After all, they reason, if both the Left and the Right whine about the tone of coverage, the press MUST be doing something correctly. . .even if they think what is "correct" is calling spin "fact" and fabrications "controversy." I think this is perhaps where the Right has done the best in their drive to turn America into a fascist state. Erode the public confidence in the media, removing them from the position of being watchdogs of the government for the public. Degrade the credibility even more by only covering press releases as "fact" and "controversy" without any examination of character. Just look at the television - they can regularly haul out clowns like Focus on the Family and the "Family" Research Council as spokesmodels of some factually-based worldview, ignoring that often these organizations create that worldview by intentional deception. The media gives stories published by the soldiers of Rev. Moon credibility just because they look like journalistic pieces - even if every other paragraph is so laced with partisan rhetoric and innuendo that no thinking person would believe such trash. Reporters from the AP and many other news organizations have little or no training in developing critical thinking skills, few ethical standards beyond keeping their own job and building their own career, and hardly understand concepts about their own communication with self - let alone how other people communicate.
Okay. Got. It.
And this summers media bandwagon is the Does Obama have a problem with...
Notice how everyweek the media is screaming dramatically that Obama has a problem with a new group. One week it's women, then the next it's working class.
Some people I talked to Sunday I told it would be the netroots this week and called it.
I am trying to guess what next weeks group will be.
Maybe fireworks junkies.
anyway, it is the replacement for the media for the 04 swiftboats -which was just one group.
As evidence, look at the 'reverse-swiftboating' done by McCain this past week over Clark's statement. Clark never disparaged McCain, but McCain claimed he did, and every media outlet, many over and over, claimed Clark did.
You know, if a swiftboating occurs in the middle of the woods, and nobody knows about it, then it isn't a swiftboating.
While I was sitting here, I just lied out loud saying Obama is an ex-KKK klansman (until someone pulled the sheet of his head). No body heard it, nobody reported it, so no swiftboating occurred.
The country is going down the tubes, and the media is guilty for aiding and abetting that crime.