Note for Dana Milbank....

[Skidmore]

Mr. Dana Milbank,

I appreciate your willingness to finally start calling a Republican candidate/office holder on dishonest and despicable behavior now that the media has become the target of nasty assaults by crowds of rightwing supporters. Let me point out to you that during the Bush years, there has a very long history of this type of behavior, blessed by a wink and a nod by the candidate/office holder, and heretofore unreported in any media save the independent press. While the Washington media toadied up to the bullyboys in the Bush administration and to their equally bullyish crowds, citizens who weren't card carrying Republicans were barred from attending speeches by the erstwhile President of their nation. They were barred from asking questions and relegated to "free speech zones." The sheer numbers of us who attended demonstrations and protested the crimes of the Bush administration went unreported or were discounted by members of the media. The objections we had to the gross misuse of power were denigrated as the natterings of the "leftist fringe."

Now you find it disturbing that these tactics are directed to you. They want to silence you. This is what happens when the media does not do its job of being vigilant for the people. This is what happens when the glitter of power and wealth seduces the press. Now that the media. Now is the time you and your colleagues find the same courage that demonstrators who have faced police dogs, tasers, and truncheons have and help us preserve our democracy. If the media fails yet again to confront the new bullyboy and his mobs, our nation may not be able to stand up again so readily. Mr. Milbank, it is time for you all to do your jobs and quit covering for these abusers of power and the people.

Skidmore

[FSogol]

1. K&R, n/t

[erinlough]

2. Great letter, k&r

[FrenchieCat]

3. Excellent!

If you haven't sent it yet, I believe that you want to delete what is underline. It appears that in your editing, you left something in, that I'm quite sure you most likely meant to delete out.....

Now that the media. Now is the time you and your colleagues find the same courage that demonstrators who have faced police dogs

[Skidmore]

7. I tweaked it a bit before I sent it because there were a couple

of errors and then I thought of a more succinct way to say a couple of other things.

[intheflow]

4. I certainly hope you sent this very good note to Mr. Milbank.

It would be a shame if it were only to find voice on DU. It needs to be said, and it needs to be said to reporters who suddenly seem to be waking up to the very real threats to their livelihoods and rights.

[Skidmore]

5. I did.

Just now.

[Psyop Samurai]

6. Wish I'd sent a similar letter when the press discovered they were the targets of spying.

Suddenly, it was a matter of legitimate concern.

But when it was known that the Reich was spying on Quakers?... Not so much.

Craven.

[cui bono]

8. p.s. the Secret Service called.

Might want to take it next time. :eyes:

[me b zola]

9. Thank you

:applause:

[underpants]

10. The press are such wimps

Milbank was on the receiving end of a dress down by Ari Flescher in a airport hangar for a column Milbank wrote pointing out the nonsense in W's Speech at either Cincinnati or at the UN pre-war. I think it was his October speech in Cinci.

Milbank was told if he didn't knock it off he would be booted from Air Force One forever. Milbank succumbed as the rest of the press did...at least that was their excuse.

[Tigress DEM]

11. Reporters w/o Borders 2008 WorldWide Death Count = 32 + 1 Media Asst

http://www.rsf.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=20


32 Journalists killed
1 Media assistants killed
130 Journalists imprisoned
8 Media assistants imprisoned
70 Cyberdissidents imprisoned

[samsingh]

12. Excellent letter.

[democracy1st]

13. K & R

[myrna minx]

14. Fantastic letter. K&R n/t

[pleah]

15. K&R Great letter.

The MSM has been MIA for eight years. It will be nice to have at least some of it back.

[Liberal Mommy]

16. K&R n/t

[BrklynLiberal]

17. K&R