I just sent a notice to my Republican friends today regarding Gibbs premier

[JohnnyRingo]

If you've been getting emails from your wing-nut friends (if you have any) for the last eight years like me, this should sound familiar:

After watching today's first press con with newly appointed press secretary Robert Gibbs, and the relentless grilling he got from the White House reporters, Im renaming the fifth estate.

From now on, I'll refer to them as "the far right-wing conservative media", and complain they're the largest threat our nation faces today. I'll point out that they should be banished from questioning White House policy because they're neo-nazis who obviously strive for facsist rule.

As of now, the only news broadcast I'll deem viewable will be Keith Olbermann, because "he's the only one who gives me both sides of the story", and only listen to Air America Radio because "they alone remain fair and impartial" in a vast sea of Nazi conservative voices.

-JR

[Aloha Spirit]

1. Haha revenge! But who's the fourth estate if they're the fifth?

[JohnnyRingo]

4. Oh Oh...Did I get that wrong?

Is the media refered to as "the fourth estate"?
Frankly, I never understood the term, but I was looking for a different descriptor in the email.

[Aloha Spirit]

5. You could call them the fifth wheel... or the fifth shoe to drop or the fifth disease.

The fourth estate is like, the media is the fourth branch of government.

[bdamomma]

2. how about Rachel Maddow? shouldn't she be included

as being "viewable".


Great e-mail. The media is keeping it's stripes of being right wing, I guess they don't realize things are changin'.

[JohnnyRingo]

6. Of course she is, but this mail was aimed at friends who have bombarded me for years

I wanted to pick someone they consider ultra liberal to counter the claims I've endured for most of a decade now, how Limbaugh is the only broadcaster they trust.

I have one friend who continually asserted that CNN, ABC, and NBC, actively work to replace our government with a Communist regime. Even with my pointing out that he's talking about Time Warner, Disney, and General Electric respetively, he persists in his mindset that these news agencies want to destroy the country via Communism.

I'm sure they'll recognize the prose in my letter.

[Blue Meany]

3. How about "Fifth Column" instead of "Fifth Estate?" n/t