HOW #^^@#!! PATHETIC is the Democrat Party?
Well, in both the 2000 and 2004 elections, the Dem. presidential candidates won almost/over 49,000,000 (forty-nine-million) votes, even by Rethuglican vote counting in states like Ohio and Florida - ostensibly the Dem. candidate representing nearly ONE HALF of the ENTIRE US electorate - and yet, every damn year, the Democratic message and talking points are DROWNED OUT by the inevitable corporate news "SPIN" on important issues and campaign themes.
EVEN WHEN the !!#*#^!%*! LYING MEDIA has to CONCOCT scandals out of THIN AIR, as for example the "Lincoln Bedroom Scandal" and the "White House trashing scandal"; both of which saw not only accusations against a Democratic White House by Republican attack dogs, BUT those Republican accusations were REPEATED, ECHOED, and AMPLIFIED, verbatim, FOR FREE by the whore corporate media, at the tremendous expense to the Democratic candidates and campaigns, WITHOUT ANY REAL SUBSTANCE to the prolonged, front-page, leads-the-headlines smear-and-attack campaigns!
The stupid Democrat leadership tells us this relentless right-wing bias of the corporate media is "INEVITABLE" because "FREE MARKET ENTERPRISE" is the HOLY GRAIL of America. But what corporations, Republicans, and Democrats insist is "free market enterprise" is really much closer to something that most Americans learn to distrust and abhor at an early age in elementary school: the state (government) enforcing PREDATORY MONOPOLIES by private parties who answer to no one but themselves, parties that have close, intimate connections with the highest levels of government, namely by influencing that government with KICKBACKS and other lucrative donations.
We're referring, of course, to the BOSTON TEA PARTY, and the EAST INDIA TEA COMPANY whose MONOPOLY powers were SO DESPISED by American patriots that citizens risked REBELLION (a capitol crime in the period before the Revolution) to toss the tea company's entire shipment into Boston Harbor in late December of 1773 in what would become a major prelude to the American revolution of 1776. The British responded with the 'suppress rebellion' Intolerable Acts just 3 months later in March of 1774, and just 13 months later the defiant colonist replied with OPEN REBELLION, brave militia men first opposing the Red Coats' march at the town green of Lexington on a cold morning of April 19, 1775, then engaging in a bloody, drawn out battle at the Concord bridge later that same day, a running battle from Concord bridge all the way back to Boston harbor 24 miles away. (As an indication of how tough were the soldiers of the Royal Army and their Patriot adversaries during the American Revolution, the Redcoats departed Boston harbor at midnight, prompting Paul Revere's famous ride; marched the nearly 20 miles to Lexington and another 4 to Concord, and then fought a running battle all the way back to the harbor, for a 50 mile round-trip march with little water or supplies, being shot at by rebellious colonists the entire return trip.)
Returning to the present, official Washington, the Republicans, Big Business, and even important Democrats tell us that having MEDIA MONOPOLIES in America today is the way it MUST be, because the precious dollar determines what voters hear, see, and read about in American 'news.'
But let's look at the flip-side of that coin. Every other year Democrats try to raise MILLIONS of dollars from Democratic voters... and EVERY YEAR Democratic consulting firms and campaign managers hand BAGS OF CASH over to the VERY CORPORATIONS who spend the entire year BASHING Democratic candidates, leaders, issues, and goals!
Republican-leaning MEDIA CORPORATIONS donate millions of dollars to Republican Party candidates and elected officials, whose campaign staffs produce attack ads against Democrats, and then those Repub. campaigns pay those SAME MEDIA COMPANIES millions of dollars to run the ads they produce.
The SAME process occurs with the Democrats, except that when a Democratic candidate is paying $2 million to run ads in a major market, those REPUBLICAN leaning media corporations will GIVE SOME OF those funds (as a percentage of their gross profits) BACK to the Republican candidates they favor! That's not even including the "FREEBIE" innuendo and attack stories that turn molehills into mountains, such as Al Gore receiving a small ($2,000) donation from a Buddhist temple, while in 2004 the Republican candidate benefitted from MILLLIONS OF DOLLARS worth of Vatican (Roman Catholic Church) efforts to discredit and oppose Democratic candidate John Kerry (re "moral values" issues such as the abortion issue and gay rights).
Democrats tell us WE MUST PUT UP WITH THIS GROSS DISPARITY in media influence because "PRIVATE PROPERTY" and "FREE MARKET ENTERPRISE" are the Holy of Holies in America; above even the legitimacy of SAFE, SECURE, VERIFIABLE, and TRANSPARENT elections (which the whore corporate media express ZERO interest in safeguarding!), and even ABOVE the 'right' of the MAJORITY of American citizens to have THEIR government safeguard THEIR concerns. (e.g. saving social security, drawing down the war in Iraq, securing worker's pensions, raising the minimum wage, providing health care to working families; and even outsourcing American jobs; etc. etc. etc.)
That is, our Dem "leaders" tell us we Democratic voters MUST put up with this GROSS MEDIA DISPARITY, EVEN when the "FREE MARKETS" aren't "FREE" at all (they are intensely regulated, and in the case of for example Clear Channel radio, they act as predatory conglomerates who have been known to buy out a show just to keep it off air, e.g. the Randi Rhodes show was not syndicated nationally until Air America came along, Clear Channel corp. BLACKBALLED Randi from national syndication at the behest of drug-addled blabbermouth Rush Limbaugh, who threatened to take his show from Clear Channel if Clear Channel syndicated the Randi Rhodes show.)
Oh, and the airwaves aren't "PRIVATE PROPERTY" either - they are in the PUBLIC DOMAIN, regardless of how BushCo and the George Will corporate press/media try to imply that they "OWN" the airwaves around us.
That is, on BOTH of the foundations that the Right-Wing uses to justify the corporate media's 'right' to SPIN the news - "FREE MARKET ENTERPRISE" and "PRIVATE PROPERTY" BOTH are PROPAGANDA TERMS used to define a CLOSE, CONTROLLED MARKET, and a PRIVATE MONOPOLY of the PUBLIC airwaves.
All the above demonstrates how the press-media GETS PAID to run ads of Vietnam war TRIPLE-AMPUTEE Senator Max Cleland's photos being juxtaposed between pictures of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden's in Cleland's electoral "defeat" in the Georgia senate race in 2002 (NOT!); or how hapless, clueless Dem. Senate MAJORITY leader Tom Daschle's picture was MORPHED into Osama bin Laden during the 2004 election in South Dakota; or how today CNN blowhard 'news' anchor Wolf ("AIPAC iz us") Blitzer's CNN broadcast "ACCIDENTALLY" substituted a chyron (text) of "Where's OBAMA" when the headline was supposed to read "Where's OSAMA?" Or how the media ran with the story "WELLSTONE MEMORIAL SERVICES show how PARTISAN are those treacherous Democrats for remembering the issues and battles Senator Wellstone FOUGHT FOR, and WAS FIGHTING FOR, when his airplane tragically fell out of the sky one night on a campaign flight to win re-election in 2002.
For ALL the above gross media abuses in appalling attack ads, the stupid Democrats offer ONLY ONE SOLUTION for Democratic voters: "HAND OVER MORE CASH, which we will in turn hand over to those very media corporations running the foul ads for Republicans!"
Democrats, thy name is CLUELESS OBLIVIOUSNESS.
CNN, thy name is LYING MEDIA WHORES!
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British Tea Act, Boston "Tea Party," British Intolerable Acts, leading to American Revolution's "shot heard 'round the world."
http://www.patriotresource.com/events/bostontea.html
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CNN apologizes for Obama gaffe in Bin Laden graphic
Michael Roston
Published: Tuesday January 2, 2007
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/CNN_comments_on_Obama_gaffe_in_0101.html
A Monday night broadcast of CNN's Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer confused America's "number one enemy" with one of America's most popular senators, RAW STORY has learned. CNN apologized for the error, which came after a SERIES of 'INCIDENTS' in recent months in which Illinois Democrat Senator Barack Obama was subtly or directly linked with militant Islamic personalities who have been hostile to the United States.... [continued, click our headline-link]
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