Did anyone really think that the media was going to follow the rest of America into the hopeful, inspiring world of Barack Obama?
Their mission has always been to destroy whowever the Democratic candidate was going to be. The media, and their Corporate employers, decided long ago that the Dem race would be these two candidates. Why? Because they knew they could easily destroy them both.
This is from December of 2006. That's two-thousand-SIX.
http://www.dailykos.com/...
Cover of Newsweek, December 2006:
They didn't really care who of these two came out ahead, their job was to destroy whoever it was once they knew who the Republican candidate was.
Do you really think any other candidates had a chance? Anyone remember the deliberate lack of media attention on Edwards? Anyone remember seeing any attention directed toward one of our bests candidates, Dodd? Was there ever any seiousr media attention given to anyone but Obama and Clinton? No, of course not.
Front page story here today ponders how this can be so:
The Wright Stuff
I do find one aspect of this story quite troubling. We have now seen more sermons from Barack Obama's minister in 48 hours than we ever did of Mike Huckabee ---- and Mike Huckabee was a presidential candidate for 14 long months. Why is it acceptable to scour every last sermon given by Wright, but only weeks ago we weren't allowed to see or read Mike Huckabee's sermons? In fact, not only was it totally ignored by the traditional media, but the few times the question of Huckabee's sermons was raised, it was brushed aside as inappropriate.
Why the hypocrisy?
Why the hypocrisy? It's utterly naive to expect anything else, that's "why."
This is a media that spread Bush's known lies about Iraq, got us into this war, has constantly lied on behalf of the corporate elite for years and years now. Right now they won't even acknowledge the known fact that the massive data-mining on Americans was started prior to 9/11.
They are currently letting Bush censor the story about how 600,000 captured Iraqi documents prove, at least to the satisfaction of the Pentagon itself, that Saddam Hussein had absolutely no connection to Al Queda or 9/11.
They are allowing David "I like to wear diapers with shores" Vitter and Larry "a blowjob in a bathroom doesn't make you gay" Craig continue their careers unperturbed.
They have deliberately repeated the lie about "the surge is working" to the point where people have actually believed it and it's become conventional "wisdom".
CNN, when it does stories on the "race", now is intercutting footage of McCain shaking hands with images of the White House itself, so people start associating him with the Presidency. I saw this just yesterday.
And here are two tasty bits from the new Harpers Index:
Number of times that the U.S. media have called John McCain a "maverick" since 1995: 6,757.
Percentage change between 2001 and 2007 in the number of instances per year: 76%
The media is doing its job. This is what they've done for years now.
They did it in 2004 to Kerry. They ENABLED the swift-boat campaign to work! They pushed that "story, down our throats! "Some people are saying" blah blah blah... Could it be true? Is there anything to these allegations? "
Does anyone here really think the media has had some sort of epiphany lately? That Barack's inspiring speeches have made them suddenly look into their years and say "ya know, gosh, we ARE whores of the corporatocracy. It's time we stopped doing that. I'm going to risk my lucrative career to spread only the TRUTH from now on!"
Uh .... NO.
These are the people who destroyed Dan Rather, put Don Sieglemann in jail and only show stories about it during the Superbowl. These are the people who made "swiftboating" successful. These are the people who gave that psycho Glenn Beck (Blech!) his own TV show. These are the people who paid Judith Miller to do Bushco's bidding. These are the people who keep Rush Limbaugh on radios all across the country. These are the people who gave us "The Path to 9/11".
I could go on. And on. And on.
They've given us Bill Clinton's wife, and a young inexperienced half-black fellow whose name is one letter away from "Osama" and whose middle name is Hussein as our candidates.
They now have their candidate: McCain.
And their job is to now destroy whoever ours is.
They are now starting that process. It has just begun.
Our very Democracy is on life-support. It's in a coma. And THAT'S what we're actually dealing with here, and that's what we need to be fighting for. Everything else is a distraction. This Hillary thing is classic divide-and-conquer. This Reverend Wright thing is nothing but mud.
Once the Reverend Wright thing calms down, there will be something else. It's going to get worse. ANd worse.
Right now 13% of Americans believe Obama is a muslim. 20% believe the sun revolves around the earth. 19% think Bush is doing a heck of a job. And a whole lot of people still think Saddam Hussein did 9/11 to us.
THAT is what we're up against.
The only way to fight this is with boots on the ground. More and more people are distrusting the media.
Hit the streets and get out there and campaign for the truth. Start knocking on doors. Nothing else is going to work.