Media's 2004 story line exposed.

[John_H]

Even a quick glance the recent front pages of the major newspapers, and you'll see the just how blatantly the media is presenting it's story line for the 2004 election.

Wake up folks. The media wants an easy storyline. Easy for lazy reporters to write. Easy for the (in the media's view) unlearned 'mericuns to understand. Blank and white. Bush vs. Dean. fearless leader vs. no experience. "Left" vs. Right. Common man vs. "elitist".

Bush wins with a mandate. The media's chearleading and shilling is validated by public approval.

For example, take the front page of Saturday's Washington Post- Above the fold we have two stories. The first about how Libya's WMD thing "validates the Bush Doctrine." The second essentially saying that Dean nearly chieved unicversal healthcare in VT." "liberal Governor" Vs. Bush Doctrine.

Justified or not, Dean has made himself an easy target, a perfect fit, for their strategy by running away from his record. Justified or not, they're going to kill him on national security, "liberalism", etc.

www.washingtonpost.com

This is how the stories are going to shape up. Ask yourself why the same media that shills for Bush is annointing Dean. Have they suddenly become fair "liberal" media? Or do they have another agenda?

[PATRICK]

1. Should run an ad

Where every bloodily discredited story line is juxtaposed with reality. They have been tricked, wrong, cheerleading one lie or disaster after another. If they found Osama's head they would bury history itself. Pretext, subtext, propaganda. When they do it for a troubled sports team you can simply remind them of the score, but they will keep it up until final defeat and beyond as all fans do.

The "success" in Iraq will possibly be real, once the Baathist smoke clears, but as is already proven, it is too late and only a temporary cleansing blip in the real Iraqi war against occupation.
Israel couldn't do it, neither can we. Our troops are already producing more war not peace and extremely inefficient in Gestapo like oppression which is sprouting naturally out of necessity and fear. Our demoralized pro army will shrink. The draft will be a necessity under Bush even if the neocons uncharacteristically surrender all further advnetures. It may have already become a necessity without Bush.

Shouting one meaningless bannerline into the march of history does nothing but delude the public into more needless suffering. The press is forced more and more to be Bush, not report Bush. These Pravda fantasies are voluntary under false flags of what people still think the press is. More blood is directly on their collaborating hands.

[HFishbine]

2. Oh yee of little faith

Have you heard the full Lybia story yet? You will. Lybia has been trying to expose their weapons programs for years. It has nothing to do with the "Bush (ie PNAC) doctrine."

As for the common man vs. the elitist, good Lord let's hope that's the way the campaign gets framed. Journaists aren't the only ones for whom that would make it easy.

[grasswire]

3. today's terror alert....

...blows the Bush doctrine out of the sky.

War against Iraq has apparently made us less safe.

[quinnox]

4. Yep

Dean's campaign was toast the moment Hussein was taken, and now the only thing left to see is if Dems nominate another loser in the line of the McGovern-Mondale-Dukakis choices which would happen in the event of a Dean nomination. I remain optimistic that this disasterous result will not take place.