Is it "feeding frenzy" yet?

[Parisle]

--- If not, it certainly should be,... or at least all the necessary ingredients are in place. When old colleague of mine, Larry Sabato, wrote the volume bearing that title, he was reviewing the progression of events attendent to the Watergate scandal. By "feeding frenzy" time, Nixon couldn't buy a friend. But of course, the Watergate-era press would have had Bush for lunch over his early assertion that he did not even know Ken Lay at ENRON. The MSM has definitely been running interference for the worst president in American history.

--- Whether anyone realizes it or not, there were members of the post-Watergate GOP who vowed that they would never let the "press" beat them again. And now the "press" is essentially owned by five multi-national corporations, eh? Good plan.

--- But the "feeding frenzy" expression implies a situation that is out of control. The corporate spin-masters and news-twisters can only do so much,... and the American people may have one more good uprising left in them. If that uprising gets set in motion, then the would-be New American CORPORATE Century proponents will quietly shelve their ambitions for a later time. The implications of 1789,... of 1917,... and of FDR's New Deal have not been lost on them.

--- The big story (to me) on Wednesday night was not Bush's speech,... but the looks on the faces and the tone of comment by guys like Russert and Matthews and Scarborough. Their looks and tone signalled the arrival of the conditions and national mindset which Sabato illuminated for us all those years ago. Hell, I thought we'd gotten there a couple of times in the last few years of Bush malfeasance & misdeed,... but I was wrong. Until now.

[annabanana]

1. It won't be "feeding frenzy" until

ABC, NBC & CBS start to take this criminal to task at 6 and 11. That's when the apolitical among us will begin to understand how badly they've been conned.

[Parisle]

2. Give it a week. Let's see what happens.

--- We have just had elected federal legislators telling the Secretary of State that Bush has lied to them and to the American public. Heavy-hitting republicans were in the strident mix. News coverage showed only Bush detractors, and that is a big sign that something is changing. Wednesday's speech could turn out to have been the day from which we officially mark the beginning of Bush's political downfall. No point in being petulant or demanding about it. If it's happening, then "help it happen." A true feeding frenzy will do more to waylay Bush's plans for a mideast-based WW3, than all the political industry BS they can cough up.