WHEN the dems take back the white house, increase their majority in both houses, whose head will explain first?
Tweety, Russert, Tucker or the boys at Fox?
Seriously, I wonder what is going to happen if the democratic Congress comes up with some regulatory measures for broadcasting, it passes and is not vetoed because King George is gone, and all of a sudden the cash cow for the millionaire pundit class dries up.
More....
I reread Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled over for Bush and I get angry all over again. Thank heavens for the NET.
Listening to cable news one might conclude that
**A) women are shrill; when women run for THE office, they cannot be elected; to make sure, we, the pundits, must tell the people over and over they are UNELECTABLE and mention their shrill voices over and over and over.
**B) Fred Thompson and Rudy Guilani are John Wayne redux and will single handedly save us all from the evil savages of the middle east.
**C) John Kerry was a coward despite the fact that he did fight for his country while George W. Bush was a hero because he wore a flight suit and swaggered.
**D) NOT FIGHTING for your country can make you a patriot if you are a chickenhawk republican, a manly man. But NOT FIGHTING for your country if you are a democrat, makes you a draft dodger and incapable of being Commander and Chief; however if you are a democrat and did fight for you country, it makes you the target of lies.
We cannot let this happen again. We, the people, must force the press out there to allow the voices of truth to be heard.
The NYC Firefighters should be HEARD and LISTENED TO without some corporate owned publication accusing them of doing what the "swiftboaters" did. THAT IS GARBAGE and when I hear I see red.
The SWIFTBOATERS LIED. They mocked a man's military service. They BETRAYED one of their own for political reasons.
Guiliani was NEVER a firefighter and it is a fact, documented that he refused to give them new radios. It is a FACT that the firefighters lost brothers and sisters to 9/11 and it is a FACT that many of them have become sick because of the hours they spent trying to recover bodies, not given sufficient equipment to protect them. And they put the blame where it belongs....on Rudy.
And DAMMIT, Matthews and his ilk cannot be allowed to get away with blatant, derogatory sexism. I don't care whether people here are for or against Hillary, we ALL should be against using sexism as a tool for bashing any candidate, in the same way we should be against using racism as a tool against a candidate.
Anyway, back to my first point.
Because it is clear that the punditry is pushing hard to keep the status quo, the corporations in power, they will be spinning for the republicans. We will hear about swagger, and manly men ad nauseum.
And Tweety mentioned it today. He was raised in a republican family and he knows: "...republicans want leaders, bosses; democrats want meetings and consensus."
His implication was clear. Rudy is a leader. He cleans up cities. And so the crazy man has admitted it: Fascism appeals to him. This notion of democracy, of the people, by the people and for the people apparently is for wimps and sissies and women with shrill voices.
HOW ANYONE WITH AN IQ HIGHER THAN THEIR AGE CAN SAY TWEETY IS A LIBERAL VOICE IS BEYOND MEN.
Matthews, I guarantee, will do a Hillary trash job DAILY from now until the primaries. And if Hillary wins the primary, we will hear the word "shrill" at least five times daily whenever he mentions her, and we will hear the words macho; leader, tough guy and swagger if either Rudy or Thompson are the nominees.
And if indeed Hillary does become the Commander-in-chief, then I will bet Tweety's head will explode on air.