Tweety and the Bastards

[PCIntern]

on Cable express some incredulity that Kerry/Edwards is tied or - gasp-leading in some polls. Feigning amazement is not one of their stron suits and it only shows how complicit they all, and I mean ALL, are in the attempted re-selection of *. They are playing a horribly duplicitous game and interestingly, yesterday a patient of mine gave me some perspective.

She is a Russian emigre, noted in the former Soviet Union as a remarkable lady of letters - she likens this present WH group/ Senate to the Stalinist era of politics/provocateurs where not only did anything go, but the entire body politic was complicit by averting their eyes. I told her that in the 60's and 70's here, the evening news would present an international cold war story, and then state how Pravda denied the existence of tanks in such and such a place, or a catastrophe here or there, or even the death of one of their leaders. We both agreed that the media has become Pravda-like and that they took lessons from the masters of obfulcation and denial. She is upset beyond words - that she came here to escape intellectual and political oppression only to fall into the bear trap of American Conservatism is terribly ironic.

She told me that all the Russians she knew who were citizens were voting en masse for Kerry, even though many had been voting Repub. due to the supposed Reagan stand against the Soviet bloc.

Her expressive langauge is better than mine, and to hear her analyze the defects we know to be so prevalent was remarkable.

[liberal N proud]

1. Tweety is a bastard

[flordehinojos]

2. Tweety is an asp.

Sometimes he appears to be all curled up on the side of the democrats so as to get as much information or democratic way of thinking on certain issues by his democrat guests on the program, until he's had enough and then he bites their hands, mocks them and laughs at them.
Tweety is a shameful asp. Yeah, a bastard, too!

[SpaceCatMeetsMars]

3. Do you think the media people believe in the "free market religion"

as much as the Republicans? That's what I was wondering last night too.

I remember watching those media CEOs testifying in front of the senate. Rupert Murdoch was slicker than the other ones and hid his feelings better, but the other ones were obviously furious and so full of contempt that they were brought to answer questions about media consolidation before the public.

I think they might be power-mad Utopia-believers like the top Soviets were. They want to be free to do whatever they want to do to get money and power and they are part of the military/industrial complex. In their minds, anyone in government, or non-profits or NGOs, or academia or science or military thinkers, or government intelligence that raise questions about what Bush is doing are just a bunch of meddlers that get in their way.

I suppose Tweety and the rest of them probably just believe in what their CEOs think. They raise a few questions about the idiocy here and there, but overall they are timid and just sink back into babbling the tabloid trivial details they are fed by the Republicans.

Your post also reminds me about the way the Soviets handled science and medicine, the stem cell research issue seems so similar. Facts don't matter to the Republicans and neither do people's lives, just their ideology.

[KharmaTrain]

4. The Media Is Now Disconnected

These past few weeks it's so apparent how disconnected this media is with what's going on outside Manhattan and the Beltway. They're manufacturing their own news, polls and scandals to create some self-importance and attempting to determine that you want to play their game, since it's the only one on the tube.

This "Rathergate" non-story is a perfect example. Don't dare draw comparisons to the yellow cake fraud or...even better, get some "expert" analysis from Ben Ginsburg...Swiftscum lawyer and GOOP fixer...he'll tell us all what's really fair and legal here. They've truely perfected the circle jerk.

Two factors many of us learned from 2000 that the media doesn't care about. First...the election is won in the electoral college, so we don't care what the talking heads want us to think, we see our own realities and how it's affecting our lives. These guys, in their customed suits and drinkie-drinkie parties have no clue what's happening and enjoy creating their own perceptions that they play with in their echo chamber.

When's the last time a Tweety or O'Reilly or Scarface done their shows from outside their cocoons? I mean...a week in Hersey, PA or Lorain, OH or Clayton, MO.

These idiots think we all envy or respect and want to be like them. Who'd want to live like a bird on a wire?

[Justice]

5. Great Analysis in This Thread, One Addition

The Debates --

The Studies on the 2000 Debates reflect a split among Americans as to who won the debates. The split is those that watched the debates think Gore won them; those that watched the media's coverage opining on the debates think Bush won them.

Watch the media try to spin the debates into a win for Bush -- all the while mocking Kerry. I do think more people will watch the debates this time and thus that will be good for Kerry. However, I still expect spinning from the RW in favor of Bush.

[BootinUp]

6. Noooooo! ;)

People watching the debates will be mesmerized by Bush's intelligence. Kerry stands not a lick of a chance.