If I could, I would murder the Traditional (MSM) Media. I would bludgeon it to death, painfully w/ a spiked club, pour salt on it, piss on it and then run it up a flagpole as a reminder to everyone what is deserved when you turn so rancid and rabidly vile.
The past three days and the whole "Kerry thing" has filled me w/ such revulsion it's a wonder I haven't been puking 24/7. We all know the details, so there's no need to rehash, but it's been a case study in ugly, destructive, biased vapidness run wild. There has hardly ever been a clearer example of the ugly bias that the MSM/Corporate media has against the Dem party. It was a conscious, willful effort on the part of many players in the MSM to do the bidding of the WH and Repubs and to try to destroy the Dems chances in this vital election by running w/ the non-story, non-stop during the last week right before the election. During a week where there were incredibly important, dramatic stories such as the highest death toll for Americans since the war started, the caving of the Maliki gov't to Sadr and the abandonment of a soldier behind enemy lines etc., the MSM runs w/ Kerry non-stop. I've never been more disgusted, more frustrated, more appalled than during this past week and I don't even really watch the MSM, but it STILL filtered through to me what was going on.
Yes, the Republicans are destructive, but they couldn't do half of what they've done w/out the conscious aiding and abetting that they have received from the MSM. The MSM, driven by greed, corruption, lust for power and intimidation has, through it's conscious and willful vapidness, brought this country to the brink of oblivion and it is only through the miracle of alternative sources of information (the internet, thank you Al Gore!!) that we may be able to pull back from that brink. And when (if) we do pull back we should never, ever forget what they have done. The institutions that make up what is known as the MSM need to be razed to the ground and gutted (yes, I'm talking to you ABC, among others). I'm not sure what this "gutting" should entail, but it needs to be done.
Thankfully, the only bright side is I don't think anyone is really buying the bullshit and I think in some ways this whole sordid episode is exposing the MSM for what it is; a tool. A vapid, disgusting, sordid, biased tool of the WH & Repbus. It's ugliness is on display for everyone to see and it's credibility is taking a huge hit (as if it had any left) and the cretins making the charges (the Repubs) have even LESS credibility, so the damage in the short run in terms of the election will be minimal, if there even is any. But in the long run, the damage has been devastating to the country, I can only hope that the MSM will continue in it's decline and ultimately pay the price for what it has wrought, although there is no price, no punishment harsh enough to make up for what it has done to this country.