See these eyes so red
Red like jungle burning bright
Those who feel me near
Pull the blinds and change their minds
It's been so long
Still this pulsing night
A plague I call a heartbeat
Just be still with me
Ya wouldn't believe what I've been thru
You've been so long
Well it's been so long
And I've been putting out fire
with gasoline
putting out fire......with gasoline
Cat People (Putting out the Fire)
David Bowie
Friends, Americans, Liberals, Progressives, Gop Trolls, Tools & Plants.....
I come not to praise our outrage with the media...I come to reinforce how impotent, flaccid and utterly useless and ineffective it really is...
This last year of my life as I entered my forties I feel like i have learned more than the previous 40 years. I am like most of us around here engaged. Engaged as I never have been before. I live and die with this election. On a week where things go Camp McCain's way, I feel powerless. On a week like the one we've just gone through I feel we are unbeatable. However all of this is fueled and dowsed by one common denominator....THE TRADITIONAL MEDIA. Take a look around here and we see the amount of diaries dedicated to what happened on CNN or Morning Joe or any other show. Sure we have our progressive shows like Countdown or more recently The Rachel Maddow show. The Right has their entire channel and all the other channel's news departments.
THis is the corporate media. They will make Barack Obama walk the gauntlet. He must endure his Labour's of Hercules. That's just the fact. The sooner we accept that the better we off are. Obama and Biden have a lot harder road than the GOP. We know that. We know that Rev. Wright was covered non-stop for months and Hagee, Palin's preachers were barely covered at all. We know that had Barack Obama been involved in a savings and loans scandal, he would be done. We know if Michelle and him had a teenage unwed mother he would be done. We know that if Michelle Obama was a part of a political party seeking to secede from the Union, Obama would be done.
Save your anger and passion. Don't waste it on the media. Spend it on your family, friends, and colleagues. Tell them to check their voting registration. Make sure they get to the polls on Nov. 4. Call people. You see the Republicans don't care about the media. They don't care about what the media covers. They are speaking to people. They are speaking to the low-information voter. Obama will raise your taxes, Obama wants to kill your babies. All they care about is getting the message out to people that really don't have the time to watch all the stuff we do. 90% of working people don't spend 8 hours watching every news report or interview.
Try phone-banking for Obama. Contact those long lost friends and convince them that this is the most important election of their lives.
Am I saying people should stop writing letters and emails to CBS, NBC, ABC, & FOX? Absolutely not. Am I saying you should stop writing letters to newspapers and op/ed columns? Absolutely not. In fact most people won't even read or care what I am saying. I am just putting it out there. What you the reader do with it is up to you.
What I am saying, is that pinning our hopes and dreams on the idea that the Tradmedia cares is useless. They don't. They have their angle. They want this election to be close and they won't favor a candidate until it appears that one is gaining more traction. This is about ratings, people. It's like that scene in Clash In the Titans where Zeus is manipulating the trials and tribulations of Perseus represented by a figurines. I am not making a shocking claim here but THE TRADITIONAL MEDIA DOES NOT WANT BARACK OBAMA TO WIN. THAT'S THE FACT, JACK!!!.
A friend of mine made an observation that most of us already really know. THe only REAL journalism occurring this year on any Network or Cable television is what occurs on Comedy Central most week nights.. That's it folks!!! Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are the only ones actually showing us how absurd and ridiculous the claims of these thugs are. Even the ladies on THE VIEW pointed out more flaws and inconsistencies in John McCain than you will get from Couric, Brokaw, Couric, Wallace or Hume.
Ana Marie Cox on Rachel Maddow summed it up perfectly. When asked about whether the McCain campaign was concerned about Racism, Lies, etc. She said...."THEY DON'T CARE". That is why Republicans win most of the time. While Democrats see where they can back-peddle or compromise, Republicans like a Great White just feed and kick ass. THey do not care what any media outlet says or reports. They're just thinking about how they can kick our ass, humiliate us, mock us, call our patriotism into question and distract the potential democratic/independent voter.
I am just losing my energy to care about what happens every second on Race for the Whitehouse or Hardball. Sure I watch the clips here and there. I don't even bother with Hannity & Colmes or Bill O'Reilly. I used to watch to get some insight into the enemy. I don't care. I don't watch any of Sarah Palin's speeches or interviews. I glance at the transcripts but that's it. I care about our candidate. I don't care about the GOP's.
Stop watching Fox!!! Give your time only to shows that you want to succeed. Why put your thumb in a grinder just to see the other side. There is no point!!!