Sad But Effective Corporate Media Nose-Leading Over The Economy And Wiener.

[RBInMaine]

It's a shame that people across the political spectrum just keep falling for it. When will people ever learn that you can't trust the American corporate pro-RePUKElican media who are propaganda artists to the Nth degree and who work to create public opinion much more than they do to just report facts.

No one is saying that the economy is booming yet the way it needs to be, but, also, most economists and smart politicians, such as OBAMA at his own inaugural, have said since '08 that it would take YEARS, yes, YEARS to dig out of a hole where we lost 8.5 million jobs. So May 2011 gets slammed with high commodities prices, horrid storms all over the country, and fallout from the Japan disaster. Yet we still ADD 54,000 jobs (and were LOSING 700,000 jobs a month at the end of W's term). And we had gains of over 200,000 or so the previous several months. And yet all we heard from the corporate media a week ago was "THE ECONOMIC SKY IS FALLING. - OBAMA OWNS IT. - TONS OF BAD NEWS. - DOUBLE DIP. DOUBLE DIP. DOUBLE DIP. THE REPUBLICANS ARE COMING ON STRONG. - OBAMA DESERVES THE CRITICISM. and on and on and on" And people swallowed it like candy. Yet MOST economists and CEO's are calling for continued GDP GROWTH this year of between 2 and 3 percent with more next year. - And the coporate media says it's all Obama's fault, not Bush's and the R's and the way our financial system was played like a casino. No. All Obama's fault. - Of course. LIES.

On Wiener it's all "HORRIBLE. CREEPY. TERRIBLE. RESIGN. RESIGN. RESIGN!!!!!!" Well where the holy hell were they over David Vitter who shagged DC Madam hookers for god knows how long, and has been re-elected to the Senate for Christ sake???? Where was all the clammering for John Ensign to resign (before he did on his own)???? That guy shagged his own friend's wife, then fired them both, and paid pay-offs, and had help covering it all up. Where was the media feeding frenzy over Ensign? Yes, it got some play, but nothing like what they are doing to Wiener. Yes, Wiener did wrong. No one condones it. But he apparently never actually met any of the women in person. What Ensign and Vitter did were far worse. And Wiener is paying for it bigtime in his damaged reputation and public humiliation. But his constituents like him, his wife is staying with him, and like anyone it doesn't encapsulate his whole life. Give the guy a chance to get some counseling and make amends just like Clinton and others. People flock to Clinton wherever he appears, no one is ashamed to be seen with him, and he would have been elected to a third term easily if he could have run again. Christ, not even the Arnold love child story got this much attention.

And yet, people are being taken in by this obvious corporate media nose-leading tooth and nail. It's so pathetic.

[CakeGrrl]

1. I'm always surprised when people on DU ask why the MSM

does or does not do X, Y and Z ever since the Clinton investigation/impeachment.

Nothing has changed about corporate ownership of the media, nor is it likely to anytime soon.

The MSM treats Dems like casinos and their customers - throw them a little tidbit once in a while to make it seem "fair", but in the end it's skewed in their favor.

Except for Fox "News", which has never been anything but Republican Propaganda Central.

[KeyserSoze87]

2. Very good post. I'm also tired of hearing all this "double dip" nonsense.

Here's an idea: Maybe if the republicans and MSM would shut up about how the economy is supposedly so much worse off under Obama, people might stop feeling depressed and might want to spend some money to get the economy going again.

[CakeGrrl]

3. There's the rub: They don't WANT the economy to recover under President Obama.

The public gets disgruntled, votes the D out, the R gets back in.

Unfortunately it worked in OH, WI and FL during the midterms to those states' sorrow.

[KeyserSoze87]

4. They're not going to succeed.

The economy will improve between now and 2012, and Obama will get reelected. I wouldn't be surprised if at least one of the governors in one of those states gets recalled.

[RBInMaine]

7. Yes. That is what they do. Repeat a narrative night and day to manipulate thinking and behavior.

Look at the 2010 elections. For a YEAR, they kept saying how badly the Dems were going to lose. Over and over and over they said it until many Dems decided that it wasn't worth voting in the first place because it was a foregone conclusion they were going to lose anyway so why bother. Happens constantly.

[RBInMaine]

8. Yup. Look at the2010 elections.For a YEAR the corporate media kept saying the D's would lose. For a

YEAR ! Does anyone actually think this was not designed to suppress the Democratic vote by making D's think there was no point in voting because the R's would win anyway? C'mon. Of course they did.

[MadHound]

5. Yes, pay no attention to what your lying eyes tell you,

Don't believe the evidence all around you. Don't trust what you see going on in your community and the nation at large. It is all a lie, or a conspiracy to make Obama look bad:eyes:

Just when I think that a person has reached a new low in spewing forth bullshit and propaganda, here you come along with this delusional little rant.

Thanks, but I'll stick with what I see going on out in the real world.

[RBInMaine]

6. Your reply isn't worth a tinker's damn. If you can't see corporate media slant you're dumb or blind.

The corporate media creates narratives and repeats them endlessly until people drink it up and follow along. It is blatant and constant.
Get into reality. If you actually think the corporate media is unbiased, you need to see a psychiatrist very soon there "MadHound." (Or should I say "NutHound"?)

[MadHound]

9. If you can't see that this economy is no where close to a recovery

Then you're simply ignoring reality. You obviously must be living in your own comfortable little bubble of a world if you think that all this uproar over the economy is simply a media creation.

You are simply looking for any excuse not to confront this reality as well, that our president has failed, miserably failed, to pull us out of this recession we're in. Last year's "Recovery Summer" failed to deliver, and our economy has continued to bump along the bottom ever since. Is it a media creation that home prices continue to fall? Is it a media creation that the U3 number has hovered at around 9%, that there fourteen, fifteen, sixteen million unemployed, and millions more underemployed? Is it a media creation that inflation for this year is running at over five percent?

Geez, you talk about me needing a psychiatrist, ever look in the mirror? You are in a deep state of denial, and since you are living in your own comfortable little bubble, you feel that everybody must be doing OK:eyes: