First, we must defeat the REAL ENEMY...

[TruthIsAll]

Know this: Bush can be defeated. Easily.

But first we must take care of the REAL ENEMY: the TV whoremedia which spread lies about Al Gore; a whoremedia which never allowed Greg Palast the opportunity to appear on talk shows to prove that Bush stole the election in Florida by disenfranchising 95,000 blacks (and spoiling the votes of 100,000+ who voted for Gore); a whoremedia which has covered up the subversion of democracy by the Repukes through the Patriot Acts; a whoremedia which misrepresents Bush lies as mere "goofs"; a whoremedia which never asked any of the unanswered questions we and the world ask every day about 9/11; a whoremedia which fails to cover 9/11 victims such as Kristen Breitweiser and Ellen Mariani; a whoremedia which fails to present the truth about the troop's hatred for Bush; a whoremedia which thrashes Dean using Rove-inspired dirty-tricks; a whoremedia which time and time again planted bogus stories about WMD; a whoremedia which never delved into the full story of Diebold, BBV and election fraud in Florida, Georgia, Minnesota, Colorado, New Hampshire, Tennesee and Texas; a whoremedia which never questioned the Supreme Court hijacking the election for Bush (our own party didn't help); a whoremedia which downplays the Bush/Hitler parallels obvious to us all.

How do we defeat the REAL ENEMY?

By continuing to spread the word all over the Net:

We expect ALL of our candidates to use every opportunity to tell the truth about Bush AND the media when they appear on whoremedia TV.

And, finally, for those Democrats who have been bashing Dean (and you know who you are): STOP IMMEDIATELY.

You have failed the party, the people and the cause, by doing Rove's job for him. That is the greatest crime of all. You should be EXPOSING Rove.

[TXvote]

1. Don't Forget the Machine

electronic voting machines, that is. blackboxvoting.com has everything you need to know.

Peace,
Teresa
www.votervirgin.com

[mbee]

2. If people only had the guts to cancel their cable subscriptions

and leave CNN, Fox, MSNBC, etc. in the shade. These phony shows should be cancelled and replaced with real news programs like NOW with Bill Moyers!

[GregD]

4. well, their .org and our site is worth mentioning as well for newbies

www.blackboxvoting.org
www.verifiedvoting.org

[Cocoa]

3. stop saying they're "bashing Dean"

that's divisive, as some of us consider criticism of Dean to be valid and necessary.

[maggrwaggr]

5. the only way to stop them

is civil disobedience.

That's the only realistic way to do it.

"get people to cancel their cable subscriptions". That will never happen. Everybody wants their NFL and their Sopranos.

The only way to stop these whores is to shut them down with peaceful human bodies.

I am 100% serious. Nothing else will work.

Okay, the other idea: We raise a billion dollars, and start our own cable news network to compete.

Which would you rather do?

[maggrwaggr]

6. I just saw the moveon.org ads and I'm excited about them

Now the question is -- even if we buy the airtime, will the channels show them?

That's the big question of the year.

[rumguy]

7. the mediawhores are truly the real enemy...they are the enablers

of this corrupt regime...

They will get what's comin' to them, Karma is gonna catch up with those assholes sooner or later.

[maggrwaggr]

8. they are also the turncoats and thus the most despicable

I mean Bushco are a bunch of crooks, it's obvious, and they basically don't even apologize for it. They lie about it, but they don't apologize. They are what they are.

The media are the traitors here. They are the ones who have sold out, who have betrayed all of us.

[Tactical Progressive]

9. I couldn't agree more

The media has protected, coddled and bolstered Republicans for 25 years now, and has taken every excuse at their disposal to denigrate Democrats and progressive policy in the main.

I began to hate them as they mauled the Clintons over completely contrived 'scandals' and then not only supported, but propagated the Republicans paying women to bring phony sexual assault charges against a sitting President. And assisted the Republicans as they further abused the US Constitution, the highest law of the land, to impeach him. They repudiated every journalistic ethic to do it too.

But I still gave them a little bit of an out, as their then-latest excuse was that the new 24/7 competitive cable news environment made round-the-clock political assassination a structural inevitability in the information age.

Until Bush.

Suddenly the cynicism, the sneering, the innuendo, the snide remarks and all of it was just gone. Throughout the campaign Bush's obviously corrupt, and relevantly corrupt past, and his blatant lies and insufficiency for the job were of zero concern or consideration. And the lies about Al Gore lying were just stunning. That's when I knew we really were sucker-punched during the Clinton years. Their excuse of 24/7 competitive cable news contention were total bullshit. And their Bush ass-licking continued right into Bush's Presidency. There isn't anything he does, including his negligence paving the way for 9-11 to lying relentlessly to start a war in Iraq, that they will even question, let alone abuse their own professional integrity to assault.

And don't let them fool you with their favorite tale of how they fell in behind Bush after 9-11. They were giving him blowjobs from 2000 all the way up to 9-11. Pervasively, throughout the entire range of sick, twisted culture that journalism in America has devolved to. From Chris Matthews' looking agonized and depressed as Gore was being projected the winner to his mile-a-minute giddiness as that was changed over to Bush on election night. From the contemptuous looks on Gwen Ifill's face every time she had to mention Clinton, to the glee of a junior-high girl being asked to the prom by the coolest guy in the school whenever Bush would come up. I didn't need anyone to tell me that the media hated Clinton and hated Gore. I could see it, and can still see it as clear as day.

I think it all has to do with the money these people make. They have actually become Republican; they're not faking it. Keep in mind that both Clinton and Gore are compromising centrist Democrats. I mean theoretically, how could anything be more appealing to what you always thought journalists were? And yet American journalism has been unrepentantly venal towards them. Bush-Cheney are farther right than anybody has been in nearly a century, which you might think would be anathema to any journalistic culture, yet it's just peachy-clean to them. They are disgusting beyond measure.

American journalism has now become an institution comforting the comfortable and afflicting the afflicted. And urinating on every principle of journalism to do it too. Unreal. I honestly don't think they're ever coming back, because it has been a 25 year voyage to get them to this level of depravity and because they see nothing wrong with what they have become. In fact, they're more self-adulatory than they ever were.

I have a few ideas on what to do, but this rant is already too long. Sorry, but I just hate them so much, and so deeply now. They are the betrayers of everything. Their profession, this country, truth, humanity. God, it's like some nightmare. I even see Jim Lehrer smirking every time he gets a chance to put his thumb in Mark Shields' eye about Democrats losing in 2004. It's like an alternate universe.

[newyawker99]

10. Hi Chris!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Tactical Progressive]

11. Thanks 99

I usually just read, but I've decided to start posting more now.

Looks like I shut this topic down with my rant, but with MWO having been off for so long I just had to vent!

[RBHam]

12. Great Rant

Keep it up, bud.

Your welcome here!

[LibDemAlways]

15. Excellent, dead-on post.

You've said it all. The Dems can do no right. The pukes no wrong. Dean is some shady character with a lot to hide. Look even the DLC guy doesn't like him. Bush is a brave warrior - admired by the troops who are fighting "for our freedom." I'm waiting for Rove to stick him in a Superman costume and have him leap off a tall building and soar into the air while Russert's voiceover reminds us that he represents "Truth, Justice, and the American Way." Candy Crowley would have an on-air orgasm and Tweety would have a hard-on for days.

[netrally]

13. Let's not be "out-hustled" by the Republicans

Every time there's any story that's negative towards a Republican, there's a coordinated effort to spam the source with hate mail. As a result, the media are afraid to say anything critical about Republicans, but don't feel the same type of pressure from the left.

We must not let the Republicans out-hustle us like this. We've got to work harder than them because they've got more money than us. I've just published a website at netrally.org at http://www.netrally.org that allows those disgusted with our current government to take action online on all sorts of things, not just the media.

The site allows users to sign up for campaigns, and mark off when they finish each one, so that the "total completed" tally is incremented accordingly. It's also possible to suggest new campaigns.

Please check it out.

[RBHam]

14. I saw Brokaw on The Daily Show...

Jon was way too soft on him. The son of a bitch has said nothing while Jack Welch has used NBC News as a propaganda tool for the Hard Right. He freaking covered an election with freaking Rush Slimeball, for chrissakes! I'd laugh in his arrogant, self-important, smirking face if I had the chance and call him out for the Corporate Industrial Whore that he is. Enjoy your millions, Tom! Thanks for coming out! Now get the hell out of here, and take your obsession with the Glory of War with you!