Darrell Ross

I just read this article about MSNBC dropping Olberman and Matthews as news anchors from live political events. The constant whine from the republicans for the last decade has been about the “liberal media”. The tactic has paid off handsomely I’d say.

The Populous:
Plays right along. Hit constantly with news articles and quickly changing ideas, the USA population tends to be easily fooled in the “Hey look at that!!!” game. They also tend to believe what they hear before researching it. Add to that a dose of poor education and you’ve got the recipe down. When the Republican propaganda machine yells “that newspaper is a left-wing think tank!”, it flies around inside the Republican echo-chamber (Fox, Rush Limbaugh, Dr. Laura, and other misinformed right-wing media outlets) for a week or so and a large chunk of folks in the USA believe it. Amazing!  

The Media:
Plays right along. Now that the people have been turned against the media, the media quickly toes the line. “Oh I’m sorry! I sounded almost like I wanted universal health care there for a moment! Way too liberal!”

Me:
Why the f*** can’t mainstream editors grow some spine and fight back against the misinformation being fed into the system constantly. FactCheck.org sure has a busy time fixing things and Jon Stewart on the Daily Show has loads of fodder to play with.

Seems to me the Karl Rove era is just coming into it’s prime. Too bad USA citizens are too blinded by hollywood and their own willful ignorance to see it.

So Sarah Palin is press-shy. That is, she turns down all interviews. She stays very close to McCain at all times and has been canceling some appearances as well.

What are the possible reasons for turning down press interviews? Well the one that speaks to me is she is unprepared. She is inexperienced running on a national ticket and the Republicans don’t want her to shoot herself in the foot so they’ve got her going through some intense training.

I wonder if they will train her to use talking points during debates and not to answer the questions.

I’m sure there are other possibilities… it’s just a string of bad times for interviews maybe? Or perhaps she doesn’t feel the interviewers would ask fair questions?

Nah… I prefer to believe that she is just a govenor from a state with a population the size of San Diego, CA and her inexperience shows.

I am blown away by the folks that host the http://www.JustSayNoDeal.com website. They claim to be a group of “disenfranchised democrats” who are upset at Barack Obama’s nomination by the DNC and have grouped together. Some of them plan to write-in “Hillary Clinton”. Others plan to be as loud as possible about how they are no longer Democrats and cannot vote for Obama.

The first thing that comes to mind is the chasm of differences on issues between the Hillary Clinton and John McCain and the similar views Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton share. Hillary stated herself several times that she and Obama agreed on around 95% of the issues. So those folks who seem to be unifying under the name P.U.M.A. or “Party Unity My Ass!” can’t possibly be not voting for Obama based on issues.

Perhaps, as described by some P.U.M.A. members, they are against Obama because he won the DNC nomination unfairly. Some have said they will vote for McCain “for the good of the Democratic party.” If these P.U.M.A. folks actually believe in their issues, then they are voting against them simply because they are bitter. I have watched my share of media coverage of these folks and they are clearly sore about their candidate not winning.

Perhaps somewhat ironic is the choice of a website with “just say no” in the title. As many are likely aware, the “Just Say No” campaign by Nancy Regan to help kids not do drugs was terribly ineffective.

Whatever their reasons, they have certainly made the reporters at Fox News dance with glee. I like watching how the reporter dances around the word “bitter” or the phrase “sore loser” while verifying that these Hillary supporters will be helping the republican party into office. YouTubeVideo

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It is quite clear we need a Democrat in the White House. I don’t care who it is as long as it’s not McCain. Hillary, Obama, Gore, a Democrat. This election is about Americans taking back the country, not about electing the class president. The petty choosing of Sarah Palin as VP on the RNC ticket is a shameless gesture to women who were put out by Hillary’s loss. I hope they don’t fall prey to such false political maneuvering.