Over on www.msn.com the head story is "On Iran, top military chief sounds like Obama". He, like Obama, is promoting more negotiations with Iran before military action.
Now on a day where the media has fallen into the republican "flip-flop" trap we need to make sure stories like these break through. For the web savvy people out there how is that done? I don't see it on Digg or anything and it is sad this is breaking on 4th of July weekend (not that the media would cover it anyway). I think after a day like today we need this story to get some legs and make it through the beginning of next week.
Here is my vent for my own mental health, feel free to check out now:
I am feeling pretty powerless right now after watching Morning Joke and Tony Blankley contort Obama's words to make it seem like a flip flop. I feel like I am in bizarro world and wondering what I can do to make it right. The media is effin' frustrating man! I mean seriously??!! They totally manufactured this one.
How could they spend the whole day analyzing the word "refine" when John McCain has loads of flip-flops and outright lies that are never analyzed in the same way.
How can a top line political reporter "Roger Simon - Politico" go on hardball and say that he doesn't understand Obama's position (I think he also said it was muddled). I mean I understood what Obama said. It wasn't confusing to me in the least and I don't do this for a living. Then they say that he is doing old politics because he is being nuanced! Are they kidding me? Isn't old politics when you make the message fit on a bumper sticker.
Isn't Obama's nuanced and sensible argument exactly what this ding bats said they wanted in politics. Now he has a nuanced position and they all cry they can't understand it. But it makes for good ratings for them because it if he uses a different word like "refine" they can tear it apart to make it mean something else. What do they want him to say on the stump? Maybe his slogan should be (imitating Keith Olbermann imitating a caveman) "WAR BAD, ME LEAVE IRAQ".
And while I'm at it which angel sent Rachel Maddow for us left leaners. I absolutely love her! I mean Morning Joke was totally out for revenge after she played intellectual jujitsu and argued him off the set a month ago. But she stood up to him and got under his skin so bad you could see his beadie eyes bulge. She made him crack on a show he was hosting. That was classic. He probable has nightmares about her.
And his management of the show was the worst. He totally took over the show with his talking points and never allowed the panelists to speak. I never thought anyone could make me miss David Gregory but Joe SUCKS!
There I got it out.... Wait there's more:
Lee Cowan gets top marks for being the only network news reporter to actually fact check the flip-flop lie and actually pull up a tape where Obama said he could not promise we will be out by 2013. I watched ABC and CBS as well, and while they weren't total hit jobs they were pretty lazy in their reporting.
I mean the republicans predicted a flip flop by Obama earlier this week and they manage to get the media to jump all over themselves looking for one. I mean aren't they embarrassed? To be so obviously used would offend my journalistic integrity if I were them but who knows what kind of integrity they have.
OK, I'm done. Thanks to those who made it this far. I actually feel a little better.