"Democrats haven't voted yet, but reporters have got the story: The former Vermont governor is angry, gaffe-prone and unelectable. How do they know? Republicans, and anonymous Democrats, told them so."
http://tinyurl.com/3cqgf
I thought this essay was pretty damn good and I agree with it totally. Usually I am not the kind of person to believe in conspiracy theories when it comes to the media. But, the way they made the biggest f***ing deal in the world of four year old tapes where Dean makes a very legitimate criticism of the special interest control over the caucus system and the media translates that to Dean disses Iowa was total horse shit. He never even mentioned Iowa in his speech. And, then they clip out an out of context quote about him not wanting to wait 8 hours and talk about fixing the world. They missed the part where he was talking about if he was a voter this is probably what he would think compaired to taking 15 minutes to vote in a primary.
Clark just said that if he was president there would be no terrorist attacks at all on the US, if Dean said that they would destroy him. The media has given Clark a free ride for not attending the debates, if Dean decided not to attend one of the major debates (even if he wasn't running there) he would have been crucified. Hell, I was hearing yesterday them attack Dean because he didn't attend the worthless DC mini debate. And, this morning MSGOP was ruthlessly attacking Dean about him going on the offensive, because according to them it shows he is angry and not presidental and a winey child that can't take the heat.
I still think Dean will end up with the nomination, but I think Dean will have to end up expending much of the fortune he has built up. Which has to have Rove jumping for joy, because the one major advantage that they worried Dean would have for fighting Bush is a war chest larger then any democrat has ever raised by far.
The sad fact is the media is the message, and right now the media is controlled by a bunch of right wing hacks intent on making their tax cuts permanent. The way I figure this will work is that in 1-3 months when Dean and Clark are battling it out, the right wing press will end up really targeting him too and thus giving Dean the nomination. But, not before Dean has blown much of his money and Clark has blown all of his money.
What we need is a liberal cable news station to combat the likes of CNN, Faux News, and MSGOP. Hell, I would be willing to give 500$ to such an network and some of my friends would be willing to give thousands. Maybe, we can push Soros to put up a good chunk of the money for the network. Over half of America still thinks Saddam caused 911, this is the kind of total horse shit/lies that we need a news network to fight against.