Pre$$titutes Salivating Over Bush's 'Rising' Poll Numbers

[Presstitutes]

http://www.presstitutes.com/presstitutes/2005/12/pretitutes_sali.html

It was bound to happen. Bush's poll slide would come to a halt.

Two months ago we posted this: "Bush's opponents may be lulled into believing that his dismal poll numbers are evidence of his political demise, but Pre$$titutes have perfected the art of inserting pro-Bush and anti-Democratic memes into the public psyche, and that well-honed ability to create and solidify pro-Bush narratives suggests that his political fortunes could turn on a dime.... Yes, there is a dawning realization among more and more Americans that 'Bush the resolute leader' is a figment of Pre$$titutes' imagination, that his presidency is a sham. But it's dangerous to underestimate the power of the media to drive home a narrative, and if they get an opening, a polling uptick, an event that can be spun in his favor, his fortunes could change dramatically."

Now get ready for reporters to start crowing over Bush's rising numbers -- no matter that going from 37-61 to 42-57 is hardly cause for celebration.

Here's a taste: Jim 'I'm not a Pre$$titute I just play one on TV' VandeHei gives us this Bush suck-up: Candidates Welcome Bush ...and the purpose of this piece? To boost Bush. The journalistic merit? None.

Again, look at the larger media landscape and you'll understand how Republicans keep winning elections and how a bumbling frat clown can be president despite a mountain of scandals and failed policies. First, there's the massive rightwing echo chamber (FOX, talk radio, a large think-tank-trained punditry, Drudge, etc.), unmatched by the left. Second, and more importantly, there's a flock of 'neutral' reporters (Russert, Mitchell, Woodward, Blitzer, Matthews, Schieffer, Fineman, and so on) who have mastered the art of insidiously pushing pro-Bush and anti-Democratic narratives. And last but not least, there are the many clueless Democrats who still haven't figured out that those mainstream narratives are sinking their party.

And all this against a backdrop of the right assailing the "liberal media."

The scary question is this: is there any hope of cleaning up this fetid environment? Is there some way of altering the dynamic, of changing the pro-Bush storyline? Not if the Democrats keep acting like the media issue is a sideshow...

[papau]

1. I agree - a major push back is needed. n/t

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[SmokingJacket]

2. It's just gearing up for the big plunge, like a rollercoaster. nt

[Peace Patriot]

3. "...how Republicans keep winning elections..."

"...how Republicans keep winning elections..."

We won't know that (how they keep "winning" elections) until we can get into Diebold's and ES&S's 'TRADE SECRET,' PROPRIETARY vote tabulation software and firmware, and, even then, these very hackable voting systems can be altered quickly and without leaving a trace, so we may never know.

Odd, isn't it? We have no idea how our votes are being tabulated.

The war profiteering corporate news monopolies are most certainly complicit in keeping people in the dark, a) that two Bushite corporations now own and control the election system, with "TRADE SECRET," PROPRIETARY programming, and b) have the capability of tweaking elections, a few percentages here and there, on a massive scale, in seconds, out of sight of any human eyes, without detection. The news monopolies' DOCTORING of their exit polls, late on election day, 2004, to hide evidence of a Kerry win, also suggests that they are directly complicit in stealing elections, and keeping the war profits and the tax cuts for the rich pouring in.

Ah, me. As to their giving the rightwing a BIG TRUMPET with which to promulgate their views, way out of proportion to their numbers, I have felt for a long time that the main problem of the great American progressive majority (believe me, we are the great majority; read the issue polls; you will be amazed) is that it is depressed, demoralized, and disempowered, and, above all, DISENFRANCHISED. Most people don't believe the propaganda. They are reading between the lines. They know it's all crap. But each feels alone and isolated ("I'm the only one..."), and they are thus right where the fascists want them to be, SUBCONSCIOUSLY snared by the ILLUSION of rightwing dominance. They ask questions like, "Have my fellow Americans gone nuts?" The truth is we haven't, but if you watch much TV, or listen to much radio, or read almost any news monopoly newspaper on a regular basis, you get the IMPRESSION that the majority of us have gone stark-raving mad--voting for a trillion dollar deficit and mass murder and torture.

"Is there any hope of cleaning up this fetid environment?" I think our main hope is an unrelenting campaign to restore transparent elections. Without transparent elections, there is nothing we can do about corporate news monopolies, corporate rule, mass murder, massive theft and unjust war. That is WHY they took away our right to vote--because of our potential power as a sovereign people, to regulate them, and to pull their charters and dismantle them, and seize their assets for the public good, if we've a mind to.

Recently, in Ohio, four ELECTION REFORM initiatives that were predicted to win by 60/40 votes, were flipped over into 60/40 LOSSES on election day--the most audacious flipover yet. The machines and their masters are now dictating election policy and PREVENTING reform--a chilling Orwellian twist.

Read Bob Koehler's article on the Ohio initiatives:

http://www.tmsfeatures.com/tmsfeatures/subcategory.jsp?custid=67&catid=1824

Russ Holt has a bill, HR 550, that will stop this privatization of our election system in its tracks. It has 169 sponsors. Sign the petition at:
www.russholt.com/petition.html

For an easy to read pamphlet on the perils of electronic voting:
www.votersunite.org

For a project for statistical monitoring and challenges of the '06 and '08 elections:
www.UScountvotes.org

More good info at (the paper ballot US map is heartening): www.verifiedvoting.org

For analysis of the 2004 election:
www.TruthIsAll.net

For the recent GAO report on the horrendous anomalies and election system insecurity in 2004:
access to pdf: http://www.gao.gov/docsearch/abstract.php?rptno=GAO-05-956
text only: http://www.gao.gov/htext/d05956.html