This is NOT about Coutler.
This IS ABOUT THE MEDIA.
This is about the anger and frustration I constantly feel about the lapdog press and their garbage.
This is about their SPIN, their lies.
And about how WE, have to call them on their garbage
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So I am packing, getting ready for a flight to Philly to visit family, and waiting for weather news. I have a stop over in Atlanta and it is looking like storms will probably be a problem.
So as I am doing last minute things and getting dressed, Chuck Todd of MSNBC comes on and he and the woman who is the host, are talking AGAIN about both sides "benefitting"and in essence, implies this was a planned out strategy. And to add insult to injury, Todd implies that it is because of the underground media, the bloggers, that this stuff gets on the air.
Now, here is what I want to know: Did we here, the people at dkos have some hand in scheduling Coulter on MSNBC? Did someone on the left write Coulter years ago and suggest she imply the Edwards use the death of their son to promote themselves, in hopes she would listen and thus make the Edwards the "victims" and thus raise money.
Do these people, these so called journalists, these lapdogs who are so intimidated by the right, really believe that "both sides" planned this media event? Elizabeth wrote to Anne years ago about this. Clearly, and imo, rightfully so, Elizabeth has been bothered by this hateful rhetoric for years. How could she not be? How could anyone not be righteously indignant and hurt and angry that anyone, right, left, center, would imply they used the most painful thing a parent can endure as a gimmick for getting attention?
I am sick and tired of the media spinning this as if the bullies of conservative talk would just go away if only the left, the bloggers, the Edwards, the Obamas, the Clintons would just ignore them (yet the berated Kerry for ignoring them). They are wrong. BULLIES continue to operate as long as they have their friends and a few strangers (the media) legitimizing their ugly rhetoric. And I am sick and tired of them implying that the reason they are on the air is because they are so popular. HELLO! They are on the air in so many markets and dominate because their corporate bosses WANT THEM TO DOMINATE. They are tools for keeping their friends, the ones who give them tax breaks, the ones who want keep the masses of people powerless and voiceless, in power. Ed Schultz or Randi Rhodes or any other left talkers could have a bigger audience and still they would get cancelled. It has happened. They insist Coulter sells SO MANY books, they can't ignore her? Well, hell, they ignore Glen Greenwald no matter how many books he sells! Oh that's right. He sells books to the left and without getting free advertising from the MSNBC and CNN. And apparently he is not an obnoxious bully.
Read BiPM C&J this morning. The very LIBERAL Northeast get the same CONSERVATIVE DOMINATED TALK RADIO as we do here in Dobson country. The ONLY way I get to listen to Air America is either in my car (where in sometimes I can get Air America) or LIVE STREAM on my computer or of course buy and subscribe to Satellite (a luxury that many cannot afford no matter how cheap...anyway, why does the right get it free and then we have to pay?).
OK NOW I AM RAMBLING. I am just so frustrated. I was born under the sign of Libra, the scales of justice and I have been out of whack since the election of Reagan. There is no FAIR when it comes to the airwaves. The bottom line is this: the BULLIES get all the attention because the media is afraid of them.
Go to a playground and observe. BULLIES are not stopped by simply being ignored and that is why too many children who are their victims are going to the extreme to stop them, because too often they are told to just "IGNORE THEM" and they will stop. NOT TRUE. BULLIES have their own cheering squad. Coulter brought them with her. She doesn't need the left wing bloggers attention. We don't buy her books. Her ego is fed by the right and by the media.
I was angry at the spin from MSNBC so I wrote them this letter:
Mr. Todd,
Please stop with your, "It's both sides" game in reference to Elizabeth Edwards and the bully.
FACT: Elizabeth Edwards DID NOT SCHEDULE Coulter on Matthews show. So when you blame the netroots for "bringing something to light that main stream media would normally ignore" , you are in fact SPINNING, LYING whatever you want to call it.
FACT: Elizabeth wrote privately to Coulter when she obnoxiously made remarks about the Edwards using the death of her son years ago. She did not ask the press for permission or attention to do so.
FACT: Elizabeth was standing up to a BULLY. And that is what Coulter is: A BULLY. No matter how many times the media shills call her a provocateur, an author who likes to provoke, decent people recognize her for what she is: A BULLY. Just like Rush Limbaugh; just like O'Reilly. Like all bullies, they lie, cheat and name call and their "courage to be bullies" comes from those who stand around and giggle, and get all involved in the "oooh and aaah" of it. I KNOW this because I taught middle school for years. I recognize bullies.
And while we all we love to keep telling the world if you just IGNORE bullies, they will stop, we all know that is only a partial truth. The children who run and see the bullying give energy to the bullies. NOT THE PERSON who stands up to the bully.
You, Mr. Todd and your colleagues are the children who run and give attention to the bullies. Elizabeth is the person who stood up to the bully.
So please, at least can you people get some integrity? Netroots people, daily kos bloggers had no power to get Coulter on to MSNBC. YOU put her on MSNBC: your producers; ABC's producers; CNN and of course FOX. You give bullies the stage and then you have the absolute b*lls to imply "Both sides" are responsible, in essence saying that Elizabeth Edwards had something to do with Coulter getting a gig on your network; that somehow John or Elizabeth or their dead son provoked Coulter's crass and pathetic remarks.
Give me a break MSNBC. Doesn't anyone at that network have the soul or conscience of a true journalist? Hell does anyone at your network have a soul?
JJ
Concerned citizen
"It's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
— Upton Sinclair
Qui Tacet Consentit -- silence implies consent...
I know people are sick of Coulter. I am too. But I am honestly more sick of the cowards, the lapdogs who call themselves journalists.