Yesterday's Corporate Media message unmistakably partisan...

[Flubadubya]

I can honestly say that I have NEVER witnessed a bigger "love fest" amongst the media bots than I did yesterday. It was just astounding to hear them talk about how Rove is free now and will be back with a vengeance, how the Republicans have the democrats "in a box" that they can't get out of, how Dems' prospects of gaining anything in Congress in November is now virtually nil, how Bush will rebound in the polls, what at tour-de-force Bush's surprise visit to Iraq was, on and on ad nauseum. I didn't just hear this from one news source but, rather, every channel I turned to (from cable to network) was spewing Republican triumphalism. I thought I had wandered into a Southern revival tent. The "worship" of all things Repubican was just fantastic and downright outrageous!

Sorry folks, but yesterday's "setback" only revealed the real depth of the problem. Corporate media is now on a blitz campaign to further the Republican agenda at all costs. I really don't know how we deal with this, but it looks to be endemic of the huge uphill struggle that Dems will have to face from now on. The media showed its truest colors yet yesterday and they are all quite red, Republican, and revolting! :grr:

[Neecy]

1. It truly was repulsive...

I had MSNBC on yesterday morning and after gleefully reporting the Rove/Chimp in Iraq news they trotted Mehlman out to spin. No other viewpoint, no reporting of the sleazy activities that got Rove on the hook in the first place; just lots of gloating and the chairman of the RNC to dance on our graves.

I switched it off. Liberal media my butt.

[peacetalksforall]

2. It appears to have been 100% pure orchestrated propaganda. And

obviously, it was transparent. Stupidly transparent.

You can almost read the directions to the so-called 'News' Directors. Mix and match the following points to show how we're winning so that we can make it to a 37 or 38 approval rating.

Well, it looks like it isn't over for Rove if you read some of the contributions of blogging lawyers.

[dogday]

3. It was planned and issued

Once they knew about Rove, then added some Kennedy guilt into it, plus the killing of a bad guy, and the Prez flying to Iraq... Well that about sums it up, the Pres and the republicans are on the upswing again...

I saw it right off the bat and made mention of it... You can see the cheer leading staged to their benifit...


here's to the M$M

[MrModerate]

4. They are setting themselves up for such a fall . . .

The flower petals will NOT be strewn in Baghdad today; more people will be blown to bits; new incompetencies and corruption will be revealed; and the press -- herd animal that it is -- will reverse course like a school of piranhas when the next bleeding lede blasts across the wire.

I'm for handing 'em more rope.

[CrispyQ]

5. My husband said it was unwatchable.

You brave soul!

[librechik]

6. We Love Big Brother--frustrating isn't it?

Let's make him a reality show. And live in it.

Americans have a habit of forming huge, powerful subcultures who jeer at and reject the mainstream. Pretty soon their vital new (youthful) message changes the mainstream, no matter how they fight it, like they are now. It's about time for the Age of Aquarius to return, don't you think? Or the modern day equivalent. Let's celbrate the Globals by climbing up into trees and calling press conferences.

Corporate Media won't be able to fight it. The advertisers will flee to wherever the 18-34 demographic lives. Just keep popping out the iresitible hooky memes, Democrats. Make sure they're populist and anti-fascist. We're the best at that. Proof: Republicans steal them from us.

[Flubadubya]

7. Thanks for the tone of optimism...

I certainly hope you are right about the return of the "Age of Aquarius"... I am getting completely bummed out in this "Kali Yuga" crap. You know, come to think of it Buddhist prophets must have had these filthy repuglicans in mind when they were talking about the great "age of darkness". LOL!

[Triana]

8. only Yesterday?

What about the day before that and the day before that and the day before that and...

Who owns the media? That's the problem. It's the plutocracy at its worst. Until/unless the media is broken up, and wrested out of the clutches of big corprats (and out of control of the gov't who represents them) and the Fairness Doctrine reinstated, this is what we're gonna get, day in, day out...

[RaleighNCDUer]

9. So they are all admitting that the republicans

have no real platform, no real ideas, just the Rovian dirty tricks, without which the party would be in serious trouble but now, since he is not indicted, he will be able to use with impunity, once again leading them to victory?

Sounds like truth in the media, for a change.

[Flubadubya]

10. Well you cetainly have a point there...

they were completely shameless in their ballyhooing the Republicans... didn't even try to hid it.

[Junkdrawer]

11. Uh Oh, I hear a faint heartbeat of the old DU...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1420199&mesg_id=1420199

[Flubadubya]

12. Thanks JD...

I'm cerainly not mistaken about who our real enemies are. Big Corporate Media... Period!