"If I had Aladdin's lamp for only a day ..."
Democratic presidential hopefuls debate tonight, live from South Carolina State University with NBC’s Brian Williams moderating. MSNBC at 7 EDT, with pre- and post-debate coverage.
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A manipulated media
If you were fortunate enough to see “Bill Moyers’ Journal” return to PBS last night, you saw proof of media complicity in promoting the iraq war.
For a journalist, the 90-minute media exposé, “Buying the War,” wasn’t pretty.
This presentation is not just an indictment of a media run amok, it is proof this administration LIED to take this country to war.
Moyers has just shown us what journalism can be!
Available on DVD at PBS: LINK
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O’Reilly’s crystal ball
From his “no-spin zone,” Fox News' Bill O’Reilly called Moyers “a liar” – one hour before the PBS program aired! And, in a narcissistic attempt to make it all about himself, O’Reilly falsely claimed Moyers accused him of refusing to appear on the program. All of which, of course, means Moyers’ media exposé got it right!
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Fever pitch
Rep. Rahm Emanuel of Illinois, chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, delivered a scorching indictment of the Bush administration in an address at the Brookings Institution yesterday.
Immanuel said every level of our government has been politicized, with this administration putting the Republican Party’s interest ahead of the public interest. The cloak of “incompetence,” he said, is often used to cover up the Bush White House’s real goal, a Republican takeover of the country.
Read this brilliant strategist’s reasoned argument, or bookmark his speech to read later: LINK
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A warm welcome to the naturally curious, the politically engaged and constant learners. I am a retired newspaper editor with a fickle foe, retinitis pigmentosa, or RP. While my sense of sight is waning, my "vision" is not, and, by God, I can still see my dreams!
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FYI--neither of the two PBS stations serving Atlanta aired the Moyers broadcast. Will it come later? Who knows? Maybe they'll slip it in between pledge breaks.
There will be no Republican takeover of the country as Republicans have fantasized, because they have been too inept to even do that properly.
I was just thinking about the Republican's once grandiose intention to corner the market in politics. Karl Rove thought he had a formula for getting Americans to constantly vote Republican and to continually portray the Democrats as a spent and dying institution.
Well, every attempt to corner markets in anything has inevitably failed and unraveled, whether it was in political ideology or natural resources. Past attempts to corner the markets in gold, silver and sugar have always failed because of the hubris and arrogance involved, and the deceit that always follows to maintain it. Why, then, would it be any different when it comes to cornering politics.
All attempts to corner anything fail and that is why Republicans nor Democrats will never have total control. The system will not put up with it because it requires both parties for it to work.
Our system of "checks and balances" has been severely eroded by the introduction of Fox News, which is a propaganda arm for this administration and the Republican Party. Never underestimate the power of Fox News to manipulate the American mindset. Despite Bush's low poll numbers, Fox News continues its juggernaut as ratings champion. On the Neilsen Ratings, Fox News holds three-quarters of the top 20 cable news shows - includin the top six. O'Reilly is number one, Greta van Susteran, number two and so forth. The horrifying thing about all this is: you cannot watch Fox News for five minutes without hearing spin, distortion and outright lies. Goebbels would be proud. But, as with Geobbels, this is not devotion to a man or an ideology - this is devotion to the almighty dollar. Fox viewers just don't get that. In a coup d'etat, the first thing that happens is a takeover of the communications system of the country. So, while our system allows for checks and balance, the balance continues to lean toward the mind manipulator that calls itself "fair, balanced and unafraid." I don't see any trending away from this pattern, despite poll numbers.
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