I just have a sick feeling that the media will always take down our democratic candidates

[angie_love]

I ran across this article from the so called "neutral" AP about "democrats" distorting McCains comment about "100 year war in Iraq". I just have a really sad feeling that we'll never have a democratic president b/c the media is constantly trying to tear us down. I'm sorry for the negativity, I feel that I just have to vent. I felt the same way in 2004 with Kerry and I see the same thing happening all over again. I just feel like when is this fucking repug rule going to end?? Its so frustrating.\

Dems Take McCain Out of Context on Iraq
WASHINGTON (AP) — No, John McCain is not proposing a 100-year war in Iraq.

The future Republican presidential nominee and the Democrats vying to run against him in the fall are engaged in a debate of sorts over how long U.S. troops should stay in Iraq and under what circumstances.

That's a genuine point of contention. But Hillary Rodham Clinton and especially Barack Obama have distilled McCain's position into sound bite oversimplifications, suggesting he foresees a war without end in anyone's lifetime.

THE SPIN:

Obama: "We are bogged down in a war that John McCain now suggests might go on for another 100 years."

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iBmbaGRRPWaK4uMtCVLW1C-0zOCgD8V44JLG0

[Warren Stupidity]

1. Been true since 80.

All the more reason why Obama should not agree to any public financing scheme with McCain: the reknucklian campaign has the starting advantage of the bullshit media system echoing their talking points, running their swiftboat ads, and controlling the public debates with their diseased gotcha squad lead by the potato head himself timmeh russert.

[kentuck]

2. The corporate media gets corporate tax breaks...

Maybe the Democrats should promise not to raise their taxes if elected? They have a personal investment in the Republican Party. How can they possibly hide that bias?

[janetblond]

3. Spin? What spin? McCain said it ...

Therefore he OWNS it ...

He's a war-monger ...
of course he said it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUE-QmH-n4Q&NR=1

War, war, war all the time. He LOVES it.
That's all he thinks about.
Some men think about sex. McCain fantasizes about WAR.

[pretzel4gore]

4. they need hurting

the pigmedia has dug its own grave, and they knowit.....they're frantic to bury their bush connections, and the crime of grand theft (by lying relentlessly over generations, they've misled the nation into 2 unwinnable wars against tots ie war on tots, and wasted equivilent at least of dozen moon projects- the sherriff of anytown america should be locked'n'loaded for mediawhore, with nothing but disposal at issue)

[sendero]

5. Of course they will...

.. but watch their credibility (what little is left) fade away as the the country realizes more and more that the horses they back drag us over the cliff every time.

[OHdem10]

6. I, in no way , am defending the Media. The way they have

coddled Obama is breathtaking.

However, IMO, The Media does not respect the Democratic Party.
They perceive our party as a weak collection of "interest groups"
who can never unify and present a strong front to govern.

They rightfully recognize that there are two factions of the
Democratic Party even Congress and this is why things do not
get done. Conservative Democrats and Liberal Democrats.

A recent example. The Surveillance Bill. Passed the Senate
because they had enough Conservative Democrats to side with the
Republicans to pass it. There are enough votes in the House
to pass it but it is on hold by Leadership in House. The interesting
fact is it would pass if brought to the floor. There are enough
Conservative Democrats when paired with gOP to pass the darn thing.

I am not saying what is right or what is wrong. I am desribing
and trying to exlain why the Media appears to favor GOP governorship.
They often mockingly say the Democrats are trying to find consensus.

[DavidDvorkin]

7. Until and unless they are broken up again

into smaller, competing news organizations.