Thank God for Fox!

And Thank God for CNN, MSNBC, The Note, the NY Times and so many other media paragons.  And God bless Timmy Russert, Hannity, and Chris Matthews, one and all.

Because of them, as we wonder what went wrong in the election, we don't have to look past our own little noses.  Because our media behaved so well, exhibited such scrupulous fairness, we can only blame ourselves for our loss.  We failed.   We weren't sympathetic enough to the religious people.  We didn't use email effectively.  We were too nice.  The list of our inadequacies goes on and on.

So I say God bless our media for it's bright light of truth.  Its honest glare highlights all our faults so clearly.  

Imagine if the media had mocked Kerry! If they had pretended that the swift boat smears deserved even a moment of exposure in the solid mainstream media!  If they had repeatedly taken Kerry's words out of context and twisted them beyond recognition!  If they had treated Bush like a religious icon!

I know, it is hard to imagine.  

But just suppose the media had done all those things:

We might have been tempted to lash out at them rather than searching within to uncover our own deep inadequacies.

So really God bless them.  

We have no excuses.  It's all about us.  We should be so ashamed. It's time to start pointing fingers.  It's all the DNC's fault!  Or maybe it's all those gays demanding rights in an election year.  Or it could be those over-educated people who look down their noses at hard working religious folk.  

It's hard to know who really should bear most of the blame.  But we'll figure it out.  We've got four years to fight, point fingers, and argue among ourselves.

God bless our media.  

For more on this, go here: http://mathewgross.com/blog/archives/001041.html

•  Olbermann

  Oh, and if you think Olbermann's story on election fraud in Ohio and Florida will gain traction in the media, just remember one thing:

  God Bless our Media!

  It's just a sop.

  by Alan S on Mon Nov 08, 2004 at 07:49:05 PM PDT

  •  We need our own

    cable opinio journalism station.

    If we cannot get on cable soon, we should use broadband and start a Liberal news network online.

    I would hope that it would report the news more or less objectively and offer a solid platform for Liberal opinion.

    by BartBoris on Mon Nov 08, 2004 at 08:06:48 PM PDT

    •  Agree!

      But in the meantime, we need to TUNE OUT the corporate media!

      Listen to this: it's not aimed at Red America, it's aimed at Blue America.  It is a psy-ops job, aimed a t demoralizing us, fragmenting us, confusing us.

      by Alan S on Mon Nov 08, 2004 at 08:23:51 PM PDT

      •  Absolutely

        Elections have been tampered with since Moses was counting commandments.  This recent election's visibility may have inspired one or two novel attempts, but in the grand scale of things, it is small potatoes.

        What is new and shockingly so, is the large-scale brainwash attempt to convince tens of millions of people that they do not exist!!!

        And even more incredible, to convince the entire nation that a minority of individuals have overnight become a majority of individuals, in a discontinuous transition unaccompanied by minor details like expanded parking or more pews.

        What are the metrics for evangelicals anyway? What magazines do they sub to?  Where do they eat? Because there must be some kind of retail data phenomenon in the month of November, upon the immaculate conception of a fully formed electorate.  Hey - maybe this is the part where the economy recovers ... hmmm.  Maybe God is speaking in this election after all.

        by dotpeople on Mon Nov 08, 2004 at 08:32:56 PM PDT

        •  Right On!

          Sorry, the exit polls only tell us who you THINK you voted for.  Only we know how your vote was really counted.  Don't worry, we're in control.  All is right with the world.  Go to sleep.

          by Alan S on Mon Nov 08, 2004 at 08:57:18 PM PDT

•  Spot on

  I've never been so thankful that we have a free and independent mainstream media intent on exposing the lies and deceit of public officials and looking out for America's interests by standing up to incompetence and corruption in government.  

  I had my doubts about whether the vapid, shallow, uninformed and spineless mainstream media could break from the script written by the spin masters in the White House and the board rooms of their corporate owners and report on this election in an honest, substantive and just manner, but now all my doubts have been laid to rest.  

  by KJS on Mon Nov 08, 2004 at 07:57:57 PM PDT

  •  You forgot!

    No, not Poland.  You forgot to say, God Bless Our Media!

    by Alan S on Mon Nov 08, 2004 at 08:03:03 PM PDT

    •  Got Wood?

      by FleetAdmiralJ on Mon Nov 08, 2004 at 08:06:51 PM PDT

    •  My God!

      How could I have forgotten to mention God and his blessings upon our media?  I'm obviously a Democrat who has lost touch with God . . . and with his blessings upon the media.  

      At any rate, God bless the media.  

      by KJS on Mon Nov 08, 2004 at 08:08:05 PM PDT

•  Exactly.

  This is a GOP shell game.  I'll write more about it when the red-heat of fury leaves my eyes and I can type straight.

  by stephdray on Mon Nov 08, 2004 at 08:18:24 PM PDT

•  Hey Gulliver, my own Modest Proposal

  I say we celebrate responsible, objective journalists like those on Fox.  I mean, after all, they report - we decide.  

  I say we give Murdoch an extra tax break this Christmas for all of his hard work keeping the information in this country fair and without bias.  After all, he can single-handedly jumpstart our economy with all that money he'll be spending...

  by grannyhelen on Mon Nov 08, 2004 at 08:18:38 PM PDT

•  The reason the media pussed out

  After Barry Goldwater's loss in the 60s, a number of activists (young and old) vowed to themselves: we will take this country back from the liberals, and we will make conservatism a good thing again... and while we're at it, we'll make liberalism sound like everything that's wrong with America.

  And so they started funding various groups to be the thorn in the side of our institutions, attacking anything they disagreed with, even the truth.

  http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Media_Research_Center

  And they switched gears. The party that had but one president since the great depression was suddenly trouncing all but two southern democratic presidents.

  But they didn't count on a growing number of liberals, galvanized by Dean, Edwards, Kerry, Clark, and, well Bush... who proceeded to take back the country, and for the better.

  by danthrax on Mon Nov 08, 2004 at 08:20:39 PM PDT

  •  Good point

    And another reason the media pussed out is that their controlled by the same corporate elite that controls Bush!

    by Alan S on Mon Nov 08, 2004 at 08:25:46 PM PDT

    •  Yeah, they talk about having a free press

      One that experiences no intervention from the government.

      But there's plenty of intervention from money -- when most of your money comes from a few advertisers, you'll pretty much say anything.

      But these are things that won't ever change, or at least not without HUGE groundbreaking changes, and in which case things would have to get a lot worse.

      In the meantime, we can fight fire with fire -- we need our own media advocacy group who gets REALLY pissed when the media doesn't hold republicans accountable to their LIES.

      One that points out the false equivelancy between the two parties. E.G.: Dick Cheney said "I never suggested Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein were cooperating" -- but that's okay because John Kerry said General Shinseki was forced to retire, when in actuality they just announced his retirement in advance. Back to you, Bill!

      by danthrax on Mon Nov 08, 2004 at 08:40:09 PM PDT

•  Conflated Universes

  There is only one thing more arrogant than tampering with an election:

  A preemptive attack on a landslide winner as a pathetic loser.

  
  On the upside, it provides a massive experiment on whether people will believe their own eyes, when directly contradicted by the eyes of mediated reality.

  On the downside, the conclusions of such an experiment may not be encouraging for human autonomy.
  

  by dotpeople on Mon Nov 08, 2004 at 08:25:12 PM PDT

•  oh yeah?

  check out this jewel:

  http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/11/08/opinion/main654285.shtml

  this engberg asshole is trying to pull some more of this intellectual superiority bullshit by claiming the blogs are half-assed journalism. and of course, because of this, all the kerry exit poll hype was unfounded. it makes it more enjoyable if you imagine his voice to be either limbaugh's ore jabba the hutt's while you read it. huzzah!
  

  by etorrey on Mon Nov 08, 2004 at 08:37:14 PM PDT

•  Howard Kurtz

  Bless Howard Kurtz for pointing out how any story that makes Brother Bush appear bad was obviously written by that biased liberal media. He's like the cop saying, "move along. Nothing to see here."
  How fortunate that Kurtz, the media critic at the Washington Post (where the managing editor won't even cast a vote to avoid an appearance of conflict of interest), is married to a GOP operative so he can get the GOP spin without even leaving his bed and then put them directly into his articles.
  How wonderful that he can denigrate John Kerry as if smears are truthful and then turn around and lash out at the media for being too negative about our Dear Leader.
  Thankfully Howard Kurtz is there to provide the criticism that makes the media look too easy on the Democrats and too hard on the Republicans.

  by Carnacki on Mon Nov 08, 2004 at 09:04:32 PM PDT