MSM Resisting Talk Of Impeachment
The corporate mouthpieces who impersonate a free press in this country are showing their true colors.
The fact that President Bush has admitted to an illegal program, the extra-legal NSA domestic spying, should have put these media fools on notice that a big story is brewing. The cretins in the press know this full well. They also know, however, that their job security and relies on them not jumping ship on the national security state.
That's why we are hearing about a "debate" whether the eavesdropping program is legal. If there exists a "debate", there exists room for the mainstream media to sway public opinion in Mr. Bush's direction. That is their job, the protection of the status quo.
American citizens have been sick of the psychopathic policies of the Bush administration even before "our leader" stepped on his dick with the domestic spying flap. The blogosphere is replete with calls for impeachment not only of Bush, but also of Cheney, along with the prosecution of many other government officials.
The "I word", as the too-cute media is terming it, appears now to be another third rail of American discourse, joining 9-11 conspiracy, American blood for oil, electronic vote fraud, etc., as topics the press may not address publicly.
The "I word" was not off limits a few years ago, if I recall correctly.
An article on the fine website of the magazine Editor and Publisher gives details of which media outlets are most blatantly prostituting for the administration on the question of impeachment. The usual suspects are never far from the action:
When chief Washington Post pollster Richard Morin appeared for an online chat, a reader from Naperville, Ill., asked him why the Post hasn't polled on impeachment. "This question makes me mad," Morin replied. When a second participant made the same query, Morin fumed, "Getting madder." A third query brought the response: "Madder still."
Imagine how mad he would be if he were carted off for an interrogation about this at Gitmo.
When Washington Post pollster Richard Morin finally answered the "I" question in his online chat, he said, "We do not ask about impeachment because it is not a serious option or a topic of considered discussion -- witness the fact that no member of congressional Democratic leadership or any of the serious Democratic presidential candidates in '08 are calling for Bush's impeachment. When it is or they are, we will ask about it in our polls."
This is the same dickhead who ordered a poll on impeachment conducted within the first week of the Monica Lewinsky affair.
Lest any reader think the issue is entirely verboten in the mainstream media, impeachment talk is considered appropriate for ridicule by conservatives:
Conservative stalwart Jonah Goldberg at National Review Online takes the talk seriously enough to bother to poke fun at it, practically begging Bush foes to try to impeach him. "The main reason Bush's poll numbers would skyrocket if he were impeached," Goldberg wrote, "is that at the end of the day the American people will support what he did [with the spy program]."
And the folks at conservative blog RedState.org (say) "the more the Dems mutter 'impeachment' in 2006, the more it helps the GOP, because it just further entrenches the notion that the Dems are out of touch, partisan, and not serious about national security."
It is clear that the media and the conservatives are intentionally misstating the facts of the latest Bush blunder to the overworked, distracted American people. They had better hope their strategy to save the administration works. Failure is not an option available to the MSM here. Circulation of daily newspapers is already on a precipitous decline, and if the media is seen to be co-conspiring with the criminals in the White House, that will be their doom.
The fact that President Bush has admitted to an illegal program, the extra-legal NSA domestic spying, should have put these media fools on notice that a big story is brewing. The cretins in the press know this full well. They also know, however, that their job security and relies on them not jumping ship on the national security state.
That's why we are hearing about a "debate" whether the eavesdropping program is legal. If there exists a "debate", there exists room for the mainstream media to sway public opinion in Mr. Bush's direction. That is their job, the protection of the status quo.
American citizens have been sick of the psychopathic policies of the Bush administration even before "our leader" stepped on his dick with the domestic spying flap. The blogosphere is replete with calls for impeachment not only of Bush, but also of Cheney, along with the prosecution of many other government officials.
The "I word", as the too-cute media is terming it, appears now to be another third rail of American discourse, joining 9-11 conspiracy, American blood for oil, electronic vote fraud, etc., as topics the press may not address publicly.
The "I word" was not off limits a few years ago, if I recall correctly.
An article on the fine website of the magazine Editor and Publisher gives details of which media outlets are most blatantly prostituting for the administration on the question of impeachment. The usual suspects are never far from the action:
When chief Washington Post pollster Richard Morin appeared for an online chat, a reader from Naperville, Ill., asked him why the Post hasn't polled on impeachment. "This question makes me mad," Morin replied. When a second participant made the same query, Morin fumed, "Getting madder." A third query brought the response: "Madder still."
Imagine how mad he would be if he were carted off for an interrogation about this at Gitmo.
When Washington Post pollster Richard Morin finally answered the "I" question in his online chat, he said, "We do not ask about impeachment because it is not a serious option or a topic of considered discussion -- witness the fact that no member of congressional Democratic leadership or any of the serious Democratic presidential candidates in '08 are calling for Bush's impeachment. When it is or they are, we will ask about it in our polls."
This is the same dickhead who ordered a poll on impeachment conducted within the first week of the Monica Lewinsky affair.
Lest any reader think the issue is entirely verboten in the mainstream media, impeachment talk is considered appropriate for ridicule by conservatives:
Conservative stalwart Jonah Goldberg at National Review Online takes the talk seriously enough to bother to poke fun at it, practically begging Bush foes to try to impeach him. "The main reason Bush's poll numbers would skyrocket if he were impeached," Goldberg wrote, "is that at the end of the day the American people will support what he did [with the spy program]."
And the folks at conservative blog RedState.org (say) "the more the Dems mutter 'impeachment' in 2006, the more it helps the GOP, because it just further entrenches the notion that the Dems are out of touch, partisan, and not serious about national security."
It is clear that the media and the conservatives are intentionally misstating the facts of the latest Bush blunder to the overworked, distracted American people. They had better hope their strategy to save the administration works. Failure is not an option available to the MSM here. Circulation of daily newspapers is already on a precipitous decline, and if the media is seen to be co-conspiring with the criminals in the White House, that will be their doom.
posted by Effwit at 11:26 AM
4 Comments:
Why is it that the people who scream so loudly for the right to own and carry handguns are so willing to let their government completely trample their rights to privacy? And these are the same people who wrap themselves in the flag and so vocally proclaim their patriotism. They're also the ones who always say, "You need to support our troops because they are putting their lives on the line so that you have the right to protest the war."
The hypocrisy just drives me absolutely nuts! They seem to have such a limited ability to understand how such an egregious violation of our rights might, one day, affect them. Just because the government chooses to focus on "terrorists" today doesn't mean they won't focus on other things tomorrow. Political beliefs, religious beliefs, other personal preferences, etc. It's a very slipper slope.
I continually wonder how much more stupid Americans, in general, can get. It never ceases to amaze me. Meanwhile, step by step, we let an administration run amok trample everything we've collectively fought for over many, many decades. All in the name of fear.
I just shake my head in disbelief.
We do not ask about impeachment because it is not a serious option or a topic of considered discussion -- witness the fact that no member of congressional Democratic leadership or any of the serious Democratic presidential candidates in '08 are calling for Bush's impeachment. When it is or they are, we will ask about it in our polls.
Bullshit. If Bill Clinton had tried to pull this shit that W. has, dude would have had polls out in print by Monday fucking morning after the scandal broke. And how about Morin waiting for a fucking go-ahead from "democratic presidential candidates"? WTF?
And Dick said no member of congressional Democratic leadership has called for impeachment. Two words: John Conyers. Asshole.
Never have I seen such cowardice in my life from these trolls we call the media in the United States.
Drew L:
It is indeed paradoxical the attitude here of gun owners. It must be because they naturally align themselves with the militaristic parts of the government.
The ironic aspect of this is that gun owners are the only segment of society that the government has any respect for.
This is not because of their legendary lobbying power in Washington. It is because an armed society is the last bulwark against a tyrannical government.
vcthree:
These media fools would not wipe their asses if they thought that the establishment would object.
They certainly held Bill Clinton to a very different standard than Bush.
Today's attack on impeachment comes in Charles Krauthammer's article on the op-ed page of this morning's Post.
I'm sure you've seen it already, it's quite a pathetic piece.
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