Did anyone watch Scottie's most excellent adventure in the Press Room today...

[Island Blue]

I didn't get the chance too, but I just read the transcript and it seemed like Scottie Boy was a boxer on the ropes receiving body blow after body blow, with an occasional shot to the head thrown in just for good measure. Did anyone get a chance to see this? Do you think the sharks in the media are really beginning to smell blood in the water and are really going after this? Not that I really expect anything to actually happen to KKKarl (yes, I'm that cynical), but it would be extremely interesting to see how * would function without his brain. Maybe that's where Cheney has been lately, having a Rove Chip implanted in his brain so he'll know which inane talking points to feed *.

Sorry this metaphor ladened post doesn't have anything to do with Kerry, but I just wanted to see if any of y'all had seen this. Oh, and I know there is a lot of talk about this in GD but I trust what you guys have to say more!

[Mass]

1. It is worth watching

When you have time, go to cspan.org to watch it.

On edit: sorry, it is no more on cspan.org.

Here is a clip on crooksandliars.com

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/07/11.html#a3868

It was amazing to see Scott McC. deflecting questions after questions saying that there was an investigation pending and reporters coming back one after the other to ask the same question again and again.

I seem clear they see the blood coming, and I wonder what they will find to change the subject.

[MH1]

2. Their need to change the subject

is a scary thought.

[ginnyinWI]

3. the best part

The laughter at the end. Like they were all united in a common cause, and know a big pile of B.S. when they hear it. Very promising for the future of press coverage. Hope it comes true.

[Island Blue]

4. Has anyone who watches WH press conferences regularly

ever seen one end in laughter? I would assume the White House ain't gonna be real happy about that, and I'm sure they will begin to limit press access even further than it already is. Hopefully one good thing about all of the reporters being on the same page on this brewing scandal is that now, no one is going to want to let it go, for fear of being scooped by a competitor. Finally, the media pack mentality put to good use!

[TayTay]

5. The wheels are coming off the Bad Ship *

* has staked his Presidency on being able to continually be able to whip the country into a patriotic war fever. The only thing is, war fever tends to fade when the casualties keep coming in and there is no progress being made. The War in Iraq is almost an abstract concept at this point (except for all that blood.)

Sadly, it is the norm, not the exception for the media in a country that has war fever to knuckle under to the Powers That Be of the moment and be good little boys and girls and not rock the boat. I mean it, it is the norm. (Sad fact of human nature.) A lot of Dems, like Al Franken, supported * when he said he wanted to go to war because of the plausible idea that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. Slowly but surely people recover themselves and come back to sanity. That's what's happening now.

* had this magical aura around him due to 9/11. It sadly extended into Nov of 2004, mores the pity. But it is fading. Reporters can read polls and they now know that it is safe once again to 'afflict the confortable' and that the appeals to patriotism to cover all things the Admin does won't work forever.

The Rove thing is part of this. Rove is a bastard and a immoral POS. He exhibited the arrogance of power that is so common to these little men and will now pay the price. I couldn't be more satisfied with this.

[ginnyinWI]

6. it'll happen if the media keeps its newly found backbone

The prez is only a one-trick pony. Not "resolute" but stubborn, inflexible, narrow-minded, and very short-sighted. Nothing at all like our Hero! And people are coming to their senses now, unfortunately a year too late. :cry:

The prez was able to become a hero for no other reason, and I mean NO other reason, other than the fact that we needed a leader at that time very much. If only it had been Al Gore.

So it turns out that yes, the media was somewhat pressured by the right-wing and even the WH directly to tow the line, but it was also bowing to something else: trying to give the people what they wanted to hear! This is a cowardly and unpatriotic way to behave and they should be ashamed. There have been some brave souls telling it like it is, though, and they are to be applauded.

I heard a local talk radio program this morning (Wisconsin Public Radio) and the guest, a black man, was talking about the election in the context of minority issues, and he was saying that in the end, there wasn't much difference between the candidates! For that I blame the media--they have blood on their hands for not doing their jobs.

At the time Rove did his dirty work, they were riding high and filled with hubris. Glad to see them having to pay the piper now that they are crashing down.