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How can people like Chris Matthews and Wolf Blitzer, and Howard Fineman and Bob Goldberg sit there in front of the camera, and choose what is now being called the "Dean melt-down" as the biggest surprise, and pretend they had nothing to do with it.
I understand that the initial coverage included some bewilderment with the fact that Dean, a governor from a small and successful North-Eastern state, was the initial coverage, but fairly quickly as Dean captured increasing numbers of faithful voters, the Media turned up the heat, and powered up the most negative coverage, from the news shows to the comedy shows, Dean was belittled like no one before. While Ralph Nader is relatively accepted running outside of the two-party duopoly on the same ideas, the corporate media--nothing but the mouthpiece's for huge corporate-conglomerates, who profit from war and republican presidencies--would in no way support this five-term successful governor from budget-balanced Vermont gaining power from within the Democratic Party. After all, much effort and time had been taken, and money spent, to keep both parties within a narrow ideological spectrum, that keeps tens of millions impoverished to the point that they see neither party an acceptable choice, neither worth voting for. On the backs of their great poverty, a few choice groups of dynastic gentry build their wealth in this country, many the same talking-heads that work for the very networks that are within this group, are participating in the skewering of Dean. Imagine, a guy who would actually represent the poor people, who might bring them into the voting-fray. It could mean a democratic sweep, a tremendous win not just of the presidency, but the House and Senate as well. No, the corporations had to use all of their power, all of their face time to help kill off this threat, a spunky guy from Vermont who was actually telling the truth, and was willing to point out the developing class-inequity. He had the nerve to suggest that the media should be split, from the five companies who now own it all, and so forcefully controlled a majority of democratic voters' hive-mind. They've taken the most electable, destroyed him, and put a guy who will be easily belittled, who will win very few states, and who will not inspire the democratic core and the poor to get out and vote.
And yet, they sit and lie, acting as if they had nothing to do with Dean's demise, that their horrible savaging of Dean at every turn, every mis-characterizing of all that he said, their criticizing all of the decisions the campaign made, had nothing to do with him falling. I just can't see how they sleep at night, nor how they can live with themselves.
The DLC, not much better, Kerry and Gephardt--I can't imagine why he thought he had a chance after such a poor performance in keeping the House Democratic-- themselves participating in a back-stabbing that would have made the worst serial-killer proud by running pre-Iowa commercials destroying Dean further, comparing him to Osama, belittling him with supposed Democrats, pasting him as a liberal, when in truth he's less liberal than Kerry, and had a great record in Vermont, to run on in Iowa. Along with this destruction was millions of dollars, mostly contributed by the poor, the sensible, those who saw an honesty in a guy that is rarely seen by politicians, judge by people who still feel, who still vote based on ideas, not media predictions and manipulation. The investment of this money was too, called a poor-gamble by the media who pretty much sapped it away from the campaign with the deception and biased reporting. Now the pundits, even hypocritical ones on the supposed left like Carville and Begala, sit up and give lip-service to what a contribution he made to the party, even though they are as guilty as others within, and from outside the party in Dean's destruction. They might as well just keep their biased centrist-mouths shut. We don't need their Judas-tears and accolades. There is a special place in hell for them. And for once, thank-you Bob Novak for calling these low-life characters on their role in Dean's axing.
Now they have what they want. Two guys, who have proven records of going along, accepting huge corporate money for favors, both bought and paid-for. No upsetting the corporate apple-cart, the people will continue to suffer, while the stock-market reaps the rewards of American jobs lost to foreign labor markets.
Perhaps it was too much to expect that people would actually vote for the guy who had the best ideas, but I did nevertheless. As usual, I was disappointed by unthinking Democrats, who seem to believe that the media still has their best interest at heart, and don't realize the massive manipulation involved in this primary.
Wake up, the time is short, stop taking advice from your enemies. No, we don't have the cameras on each television, like in Orwell's 1984, we don't have to watch what we say on every street-corner, in every room, at every location as in Orwell's treatise, for fear of authoritarian oppression. Who needs these devices, when a huge portion of the population is so willing to dance to whatever media tune prevails, to recite the latest simplistic Rush Limbaugh sound-bite, to give acquiescence to whatever suggestion that is planted into their fallow minds, without question, thought, or research. It isn't easy to find the truth, but you must look, read, listen, and try to separate the massive heaps of dung often emitted by the boob-tube (there's a reason they call it that) and the glimmers of truth. Try to redevelop your inner feeling capability and sharpen your sense for the truth, we all have it, most of us shut it off in a world far too full of noise and obsequious necessity. Otherwise America--to milk the metaphor--will be a garden filled with weeds, and we will starve in an ideological drought.
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