Doesn't it piss you off that drunken, cowardly Bush* is mocking Democrats?

[Q]

- This is friggin absurd. Even Bush* should know by now that he wasn't ELECTED, has no mandate and is hated by MOST of the world. Bush* would be booed off every stage if it wasn't for a paid-off media/public relations staff and partisan, hand-picked audiences.

- What we're seeing is manufactured consent by a media that doesn't want Democrats to control ANY branch of government. This same traitorous media continues to create an image of Bush* as a 'man of his word' and the only one capable of saving us from terrorists and ourselves.

- This level of propaganda rivals that used by the Nazis to install Hitler into power against the best interests of Germany and its people. History is repeating itself. Watch and weep as America follows the path of fascism into the jaws of self-destruction.

- We either fight or fall.

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. What pisses me off more

is watching the media participate wholeheartedly in the deception. The way they support this regime is a criminal act in itself. They have all betrayed the public trust.

[Q]

2. Americans and especially Democrats need to understand...

...that there's no free press and the media in place is determined to get Bush* elected in November while doing to Kerry what they did to Gore.

- Fight back, dammit!

[kentuck]

18. And that's why Gore said...

he wasn't going to run. He knew exactly what was going to happen...

[rock]

5. Yep. The media is our biggest problem

Without Truth, there is no Democracy.

[sweettater]

15. What you say is true

but do you really think the American people can "take" the truth and even further, understand it?

[DoYouEverWonder]

20. Most prefer to ignore the truth

until they no longer have a choice. i feel like we are living in pre-WWII Germany. People reacted the same way then, as long as the government didn't directly effect their personal well-being, most people were content to ignore the problem.

[Karenina]

33. The "American" 4th estate

is committed to the *neo-con agenda. $$$$$$$$$

[Deja Q]

11. It's like burglars who came into our home...

:-(

[bamir]

3. Amen...

" What we're seeing is manufactured consent by a media that doesn't want Democrats to control ANY branch of government. This same traitorous media continues to create an image of Bush* as a 'man of his word' and the only one capable of saving us from terrorists and ourselves"

Exactly!! Just had to watch Russert's conversation with Sen. Ed Kennedy this morning to see that's the case....

wanted to smash my TV

[Doug Decker]

7. Welcome to DU!

Tim Russert has been the cause of more than one TV casualty.

:hi:

[newyawker99]

30. Hi bamir!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Karenina]

4. As long as the media

is ALLOWED by American citizens to spew grotesque lies and distortions, the country will continue its downward spiral.

[Q]

6. The American corporate media hides behind the first amendment...

...while supporting one party over another and pretending that they're reporting the 'news'. The fact is they've been purchased by wealthy ideologues that want a one party state.

- Americans seem to be in a coma...as is the Democratic leadership. Hell...maybe it WILL take another four years of Bush* before they'll wake up. But will it be too late?

[Auntie Bush]

19. "But will it be too late?" "YES"

It WILL be too late after Bush puts in 3-5 conservative S.Court Justices and conservative Judges in every court across this country.

He will have contaminated our air quality with all those new industries, power plants and mining etc.

Women would no longer have a right to choose. (Of course there will be no funds or jobs to help the families with all those unwanted children.) Repugs say there are 3 Mil. abortions a year...that means there will be 3 mil more babies per year born into a society that can't afford to support them. That means an increase in the number of abused kids and a higher divorce rate from stressed out families. There will also be more homeless families. I hate to think of what will happen to this society and our country!

We will be in endless wars all around the world in the make believe pursuit of Democracy, but we will have OIL...so who cares...only the mothers and families of those who are DEAD! Certainly bush won't give a damn. He'll have all his ill begotten money and OIL to roll
around in. I don't have time now...but someone else can add a few more changes we can expect if we have 4 more years of bush.
:mad: :puke: :scared:

[sadiesworld]

8. On CBS News Sunday Morning I just saw the damnedest thing...

A segment with Newt Gingrich (alone) against a black backdrop extolling the virtues of the pug party and talking about job "insourcing". Looked like a friggin campaign ad. Is this a regular feature? (I never watch the show).

[lectrobyte]

10. Not a regular feauture, and way out of place...

There was also a segment on a Mom & Pop web based business in Bangalore. I used to really enjoy that show, too.

[finn]

16. never seem that before

I guess cbs is becoming cbss oh well something else to hear a bunch of lies from the ratshit eaters.

[Mr.Green93]

9. don't worry

all this bush bluster is about as effective as a fart in a wind storm

[lectrobyte]

14. the over-confidence can be scary...

I sure don't feel that way -- if you watch mainstream media and read a mainstream paper, you'd feel like Kerry was crushed this week. Plus, as long as the "close race" theme is heavily repeated, then BBV fraud becomes more of a possibility. Factor in the surprise factor (terrorist attack pt. 2, Osama, or an assassination attempt) and it gets pretty windy, if not particularly farty.

[Skittles]

21. YOU NAILED IT LECTROBYTE

as long as they can foster the illusion that half the voters actually want more senseless war and lost jobs and lost opportunites and endless deficits, it will be easier for them to steal the election.

[Junkdrawer]

12. Answer: Big Macs and Consent...

Question: What does America manufacture?

[Karenina]

34. BINGO!!!

I could laugh if I weren't crying.

[Laf.La.Dem.]

13. liberal media

Don't you guys listen to Limbowel we only have a Liberal Media?:evilgrin:

[Mel]

17. yea and Mush Mouth is against

the 'fairness doctrine' being returned that right their shows me he's a liar when he says the media is liberal. He knows dang well it isn't!
I've said it before if the repukes are so damn sure of the media being liberal then let's return the 'fairness doctrine' so they can get their 'fair' shake. The sword cuts both ways if they don't want the 'fairness doctrine' reinstated then they can shut the hell up about the media being liberal, hypocrites and fools!
I for one am not willing to race to the bottom with these fools the sad thing is they are taking all of us off the cliff with them if we don't start fighting back!
What needs to happen is a protesting of the media and the congress around the clock for the 'fairness doctrine' to be returned!!

[Auntie Bush]

22. I'm all for fairness in the media but....

we're NEVER going to get it as big corp business own all the media and they will do everything in there power to prevent a Democrat from winning and nothing could stand in the way of their interest in big profits and paying less taxes. Forget the media forever as a 4th estate. Thank God for the internet...it's the only way we will have to get the word/truth out.

But I fear that as soon as the internet (5th estate) becomes a real threat to the gods in power...the internet will no longer be free. Good way to get rid of all those financially poor people from having a voice. :scared: :mad:

[yltlatl]

28. If I weren't an atheist

I'd say 'amen' as well to all the other posts above regarding the criminal complicity in this Nazi plot by our media.

The ONLY chance we have is to speak up NOW!! It will DEFINITELY be TOO LATE if we let this junta have a second term. THE FACT THAT THEY OWN EVERY BRANCH OF GOV'T PLUS THE MEDIA SHOULD HAVE STARTED A REVOLUTION LONG AGO. By the standard of the founding "heroes" of America, there would have been one already. They rejected their legal government by force for a little economic oppression and a few deaths in a riot. I have trouble seeing how "no taxation without representation" is significantly different from having OUR representatives do OUR will rather than open their pockets to let the corporate cash pour in.

Eric Alterman's new book, "What Liberal Media?" does a great job of systematically demonstrating what so many here know: not only is there no liberal media, there's no media at all if the "media" is supposed to be the information source by which the responsible members of Democracy are supposed to conduct the business of their own gov't. It also shows pretty nicely what the "liberal media" did to Gore in 2000. Of course Bushco's favorite tactic is familiar to everyone after its deployment ad nauseum for the past 3+ years: only a complicit media could possibly allow so much lying to go virtually unnoticed.

Of course speaking out is only going to go so far. I'm all for protests and writing to your representative/senator, etc. Maybe enough voices will get something done that way, but I think we'd be lucky if it did. No, soon we have to do what every competent investigative journalist does: follow the money. We have to start organizing effective boycotts.

P.S. I don't say "Nazi" lightly: I urge everyone to see a segment I saw last night on the World History channel re. the Nuremburg trials. (Sorry, but unsure of the title.) According to that program, the legal stragety taken by the Allied counsel was to try to prove that a criminal conspiracy by the Nazi party was formed to subvert the state and then perpetrate aggressive war. It's really shocking how easily the charges and the legal standard established then indict our Selected Thief-in-Chief and his cadre. No wonder Bushco went after immunity from the International Criminal Court.

[Karenina]

32. Great post, Yltlatl!

Lookeehere kids. These vultures bring their trucks into your hoods everyday and they leave unmolested to spin pigshit into cloth. The Brits didn't allow the arschlochs to leave with ANYTHING to spin. The *corporate media is ENGINEERING the destruction of our WORLDWIDE collective good. What will it take for TRUE AMERICAN PATRIOTS to stand up for those values you so "sincerely" wish to "export?" Iraq and Venezuala and Haiti aren't enough to get you thinking about it? Meine ficken Fresse, WHAT WILL IT TAKE?

[newyawker99]

31. Hi Laf.La.Dem.!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[chookie]

23. The culture of militancy

The flying monkeys -- i.e. the Limbaugh listeners, Bush activists, Hannity watchers -- repeat a number of themes -- the necessity of war, purification of evil by blood sacrifice, the laughibility of diplomacy and analysis and consensus. They focus on the beauty of war with mystical passion. It reminds me of the popular culture in Germany before WWI and WWII.

They will pair these kind of pronouncements with those of "I don't CARE about WMD in Iraq! All I care about is that 25 million people are now living in freedom!" What I do not understand is the pedigree of this concern. Was this something they just adopted spontaneously, as Bush did, when the WMD failed to materialize? Or just as spontaneously and disingenuously as many other "liberators" in the past have done, when they claim they conquered a country merely to free it, or because they were begged by its people to free it, like China in Tibet, or Russia in Afghanistan?

I don't seem to recall much concern about the Iraqi people before last Spring by these folks -- and they sure are pretty selective about who deserves the "compassion" of America.

Does anyone remember when this theme of a divine mission of milberation emerged among the RW flying monkeys

Does anyone think that they really believe that they have a mission to liberate, to cleanse evil through blood sacrifice? I think there may be an intensity in this emotion that will lead us into a terrible war.

Finally -- strategically, does it REALLY make sense that we spend all this treasure and blood to restructure the Middle East, for what appears to be a prolonged period of time -- when the whole region is running out of oil and should be dry by 2050 and therefore irrelevant as a world player?

[arewethereyet]

24. what bothers me more is giving him a candidate with so many bullseyes

and its not like I have not been sayig this for months

[neebob]

25. No more than it pisses me off that he remains unincarcerated. nt

[Cocoa]

26. duh

this has only been demonstrated every day since Bush took office.

But what are you waiting for, where is the argument that it's the dems' fault? The truisms about the media and the republicans are usually followed by the bogus argument that shifts the blame to the dems.

[MidwestMomma]

27. Unfortunately, the 'mocking Bush' is what appeals to his electorate

I think that the average Bush voter likes it that he makes fun of those smarty-pants liberals. It's like the jocks making fun of the nerds in highschool. IMHO

[Malva Zebrina]

29. I would prefer to fight

I think this propaganda outdoes that of Hitler's Nazis. After watching the rally on TV yesterday in Florida I have to say there was a smell of fascist propaganda in the air. The photos on the slideshow are more fascist propaganda depicting Bush in a number of different mystical looking photos

But, all of that excitement seems to have caused our first couple to look worn and defeated

Look at the asshole waving at the cameras the minute he emerges from the door-no he isn't even out of the church yet-and Laura looks absolutely awful in her frumpy Buster Brown suit.