What part of "F*ck him" does the Media NOT Understand?

[FrenchieCat]

December 15, 2008

"I've got this thing, and it's f*ckin' golden, and uh, uh, and I'm not going to give it up for f*ckin' nothing." Blagojevich said while speaking on tape in reference to the Senate Seat vacated by President-Elect Obama.

Throughout the Text of the Federal complaint against Blago, the governor speaks of his contempt for the President-Elect Obama and the Obama team, specifically in reference to the vacant Senate Seat.....they are "not willing to give me anything except appreciation. F*ck them."

Those quotes are from the horse's mouth, according to the complaint. The vileness in which Gov. Rod Blagojevich speaks of our brand new elected President, shortly after his near landslide election, cannot be missed.

So what is it that the media does not understand?

Well, to begin with, they don't seem to get that the public heard those expletives and whom they were aimed at as Prosecutor Fitzgerald read the complaint over our national airwaves. The public hasn't missed who was featured in Blagojevich's taped diatribes; President-Elect Barack obama with the recurring role as F*cker-in-Chief Elect.

Ordinary Americans may despise politicians who fall from grace due to scandal, but they appreciate even less an already discredited media hounding a not yet sworn-in President for being called a F*cker while apparently refusing to pay to play. The President-elect did good by only offering appreciation for the Gov's consideration of his Senatorial selections. What the American public "gets" is that while the new President-Elect is trying to get Americans out of a major crisis of monumental proportion caused by another President that is universally disliked, the media appears bent on making unjustified innuendos and casting aspersions.

More.... http://www.opednews.com/articles/What-part-of--Motherf-cke-by-FrenchieCat-081213-581.html

[glowing]

1. One of the reasons Obama's approval numbers are untouched is because

the transcripts show that Obama was a thorn in the side of the Gov. They wouldn't pay to play. They wouldn't give him money, a job, or any other pay schemes the Gov wanted. We understand Fuck him. We understand Fitzgerald, who prosecuted Libby and the Plame issue, saying, the PE has NOTHING to do with the investigation and is NOT part of the investigation. The media is crusading on a witch hunt. We just came off of two years of electioning. During the General Election we all got used to the media propping up McCain/ Palin. We are in troubled times. Obama has broad approval for his choices in appointments, his straight forward ideas, his YouTube radio addresses. AND at this point, what else would you have the American people do. Throw out the only possible way out of the ensuing Depression, wars, and corruption. AND the fact that the media is going after Blogo, while ignoring the Bush corruption.. well its all a bit of a farce. The feigned outrage. No one likes what Blogo did, but people also know politicians. We know they like to rub backs and "friends" normally get better favors.

[DCKit]

4. Do we have recourse against the M$M slander?

Though many of us no longer even watch or listen, somebody's still paying for advertising and keeping them on the air - from CNN to Faux to the rabid haters, Rush, Savage Weiner, et al.

In nearly everything currently wrong with the U.S.A., deregulation and lack of enforcement seems to be at the core.

I can only hope that P.E. Obama's FCC is going to provide one hell of a wake-up call for the propagandists.

[Berry Cool]

6. Your only recourse is going to be to stop watching the offenders.

Advertisers will still pay for them to show this stuff so long as it gets ratings.

I don't know what you expect Obama's FCC to do to "regulate" and "enforce" them either. What--he's supposed to tell the networks what they're allowed to pursue as a news story and what they're not? Good luck with that. I mean, I sympathize with you, but let's face it--it would be both impossible and crazy for a president to tell media "Now, you can't go looking for a news story here because there is no story." I mean, hell, Nixon would have told them there was no story in Watergate. To a journalist, telling them there's no story and they shouldn't try to look for one is like waving a red cape in front of a bull.

[DCKit]

8. I'm talking about the false accusations, innuendo and outright lies.

They should have to retract every wrong thing they say until they stop reporting falsehoods and hate speech needs to be prosecuted - Rush was inciting riots for the (D) convention. And the large media empires need to be broken up and the fairness doctrine re-instated, etc....

[barbtries]

12. it's been working for bush

all these years. shit.

[truedelphi]

16. Black ops probably pays for a lot of the stuff on the tube

I mean, Fox has been running at a loss, yet they somehow manage to still have air time.

The CIA's black op budget was 28 Billion way back in 1981. SO with inflation, it could easily be a trillion bucks now. Especially of course, if Halliburton or Blackwater have any input.

I look at the CNN talking heads, and all of them look like CIA people. Blitzer definitely is, and the newer ones, some of them hold their facial expressions in at the same rate and in the same way that children who were badly sexually abused would. These facial expressions bring David Icke's "Lizard People" to mind. And I used to think that Icke's was nuts.

[lob1]

2. What ever happened to the president's first 100 days of grace?

Obama isn't even in office and they're already making up shit.

[Berry Cool]

7. "Grace"? You're kidding me, right?

"Grace" doesn't get ratings. They'd rather hound him out of never taking office at all, thus preventing a "catastrophe" in the eyes of some, than give him a "grace period." Of course, the idea of a connection is sheer nonsense, but it would be completely opposite to the nature of the ratings-hungry media, and journalism in general, not to look for one regardless. It's when no connection is found after all due diligence is concluded that the persistent innuendo that there "might" be one crosses the line from journalism to hype. And I honestly don't know what you expect will stop the hype. The jackals are going to keep being jackals.

[tblue37]

13. And yet W got 7 1/2 years' worth of grace from a sycophantic press. nt

[Maccagirl]

3. The media only understands conflict, controversy and

scandal because they = ratings which = $$$$.

They evidently don't care what we think or what the facts/truth are. You think they would have learned their lesson during the 24/7 Lewinsky saga 10 years ago-but they are STOOPID.

[Berry Cool]

5. Actually, they DID learn their lesson. That's the problem.

The Lewinsky saga didn't bring down Clinton, but boy, did it make for sensational ratings while it lasted. And in the end, that was all that mattered. The media would show nothing but footage of a monkey smoking a cigar 24 hours a day, seven days a week if it pulled in the ratings.

Don't be foolish enough to think the media will consider themselves to have failed if they're not successful in linking Obama with Blagojevich. That is not the goal. Getting big ratings for the insinuation that there might be a connection is the goal.

[pearl]

9. The question is

How can we effectively impact their ratings enough for them to know that is the question.

[FrenchieCat]

10. Well, I've turned off the electronic media, for starters.

They aren't going to be the boss of me.

The only thing that I thank is that it appears that many in the public have become aware of the bankrupt mentality the media has. Now if the media itself could only get a clue before it literally goes bankrupt from lack of viewership and readership, that would be progress. At least, there's the Internet....and thank Gore for that.

[tblue37]

14. But they eschewed ratings in favor of covering up for W, so it isn't just about

ratings and money. The owners are RW ideologues. Obama is being attacked because the RW media owners want him attacked. Bush was protected because the RW owners wanted him protected.

[Uncle Joe]

11. They understand all too well, they just don't care, because they're in the propaganda business,

as opposed to being in the honorable profession of journalism.

They know this alone won't sink Obama, as the indictment actually exonerates him, but they're playing the game of a thousand cuts, with the hopes that after four or eight years, the American People's memory will become fuzzy and or exhausted only to retain two words "scandal" and "Obama."

Some corporate worshiping Republican will then come along with the promise of restoring honor, integrity, family values, etc. to the White House or some such B.S.

But the real truth is, the corporate media want corporate loving puppets in power because if there is one thing the conglomerated, monopolistic, inbred corporate media want, is more conglomeration and inbreeding among-st therm selves.

The ironic thing is, they think all this inbreeding gives them power, but in reality it only makes them weaker, more vulnerable to political and ultimately organized crime pressure.

Meanwhile Cheney/Bush corporations continue to rake in the war profiteering bucks without so much as a peep from the fourth estate guardian watchdogs for democracy.

I believe the corporate media don't understand "F*uck him" because it sounds too much like "F*uck em" and as so many of the American People have directed that sentiment toward the corporate media; they've taken it to be a complement.

Thanks for the thread, FrenchieCat.

[hvn_nbr_2]

15. MSM is just doing its job--propaganda arm of the RNC. nt

[hay rick]

17. Demographic tranches.

Most of our national media has jettisoned journalistic standards in favor of marketing "news" segments aimed at various demographic groups in turn. Something to reinforce everyone's favorite prejudices- reality be damned. The endless Blago-Obama insinuations are necessary to retain the good will of the Saddam-Al-Qaeda-connection/tax-cuts-for-the-rich/Clintons-killed-Vince Foster crowd.

Our job is to discredit the mainstream media and gradually replace it with alternative alternatives. Yow! The MSM helps our cause when they pile on lame stuff like this. I think the adulatory coverage of Palin may have opened a few million pairs of eyes.

When I get into debates with my right-wing friends and colleagues I frequently presage my most disparaging remarks with something like "you must have heard that nonsense on Fox News..."