Reply #61: Or very possibly I misread your intent, and if I did, then the error is [View All]

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all mine and not yours.

My distrust of Joe Lieberman predates his support of Bush for the war, so when at last Lamont upended him in the CT primary, I was elated. When Roberts slammed him ("the al Qaeda candidate"), it was infuriating, and I thought it was another FOX-style slam job by the corporate media, and then Roberts apologized, on-air to Lamont.

That was bascially the sequence of events, and my own take on it started with Joe Lieberman's grandstanding moralizing against "sinful" Hollywood movies. That stuck in my craw from way back, and Lamont didn't have to work that hard to win my loyalty and a modest campaign check.

If DU and other liberal blogs had greater control of the media, there'd be some changes made. I do not agree that it's all broken, and I certainly agree that there's room for improvement. But there are many bright lights in a dark sky, otherwise we could not see how bright they are. I do not believe, as another DU poster states upthread, that this is a worse time for truth-telling than any other time. Not myself a Christian, I am nevertheless impressed by Jesus' shitfit he throws with the money-changers. That was over 2,000 years ago, so greed, buying and selling, junk marketing, and group/corporate monopolies of currency were always with us. Likely they always will be.

Often it is the anonymous, individual who makes the big historic change. In this case, it was a fairly well-known news guy. I'm no fan of Chuck Roberts, although I suppose I'd take him over most of FOX's crew. Apologies are hard for anyone, so Roberts' on-air apology resonated with a lot of us. I thought acknowledgment of Roberts' gesture was important, as did several other posters on two or three different threads on DU tonight.

You and I agree on the internet and its potential. I try not to think of its dangers -- where all this new communicative energy becomes the domain of the State. For now, it's working pretty well.

I respect you, FC. But we two are fighters, probably from way back. I bet we could sit down over a cup of coffee or a cold beer and chips and speak in mutual agreement on an almost unlimited list of topics.

Your Clark guy enjoys a lot of support, and not just on DU. Stick with him. I ran into a Kucinich voter last summer and his son. If you are as bedrock in love with Clark as they were with Kucinich, and the Edwards and Kerry and Feingold etc. people are with their candidates, then the Republicans would do well to carry their sorry asses out of the country while we take over the government again. We have a good team.