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to blame for comment about who is to blame.
Jeezus. What a bunch of despicable moronic lackeys. Yeah, run to McCain for comment. Run to Douglas Feith for comment. Ask those war mongering fuckwads "who is to blame". The lack of historically accurate memory among members of the mainstream media is astonishing. No, this isn't parody, it's real life.
McCain and Feith and all those asswipes who declared in no uncertain terms that the U.S. would be greeted as liberators in Iraq. McCain and Feith and all those shitheels who ran around hysterically in the months and days proceeding the invasion, caterwauling about how Saddam Hussein (yes a tyrannical bastard who used poison gas on the Kurds) a secularist, was in cahoots with bin Laden. Jeezus. My disgust knows no bounds.
Fuck you Mainstream Media with a rusty farm tool. Fuck you for ginning things up. Again. Fuck you for running to McCain and Lindsey Graham and Bill Kristal with your respectful questions and granting them credibility they could only dream of regaining on their own.
You lot should all be ashamed of yourself in your spurious attempt at "balance".
djean111
(14,255 posts)The media is going to fawn, lick, slobber, and kiss the hand that feeds them.
We have accepted with the smallest of whimpers that politicians both need and will be beholden to the big money that backs them - the money then flows to the media, and the media is beholden and has a huge vested interest, of course, as well.
Pretty neat closed system; I don't see Citizens United going away any time soon.
To me, it seems better to just make all campaigning federally funded, to allot blocks of air time equally, and to do away with the huge PACS. One of my fucking unicorns, I know.
sulphurdunn
(6,891 posts)worth of billionaire money went into advertising sponsorships last year for right wing rant radio programs to people like Ingraham, Levine, Limbaugh, Hannity and Beck. They then catapult the propaganda as GW Bush once said.
Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)Who would have thunk it ?
ananda
(28,890 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Asshole biased media.
The Wizard
(12,552 posts)are given equal weight with facts, the media has failed. What's being billed as news is propaganda and a disgrace to journalism. Our demise is nigh.
cali
(114,904 posts)ctsnowman
(1,903 posts)greater example of how far right all of our mass media has become than on foreign affairs. I told my daughters that everyone who opposed and pointed out how messed up Iraq was during and before the war is now out of a job (in the big league) while the supporters have high paying jobs in think tanks and media. Even most of the politicians who opposed it from the start are gone!
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)faith-based group emerging there, and there is easy access to firearms. Isn't that what the far-right wants?
postulater
(5,075 posts)Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)spanone
(135,915 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)absolute truth. The immorality of the general media is bursting out all over.
noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)Fuck each and everyone of these assholes
Balance is the last thing on their minds