I smell fear. I hear the beating wings of flying monkeys.

[bleever]

These parasitic neocon bastards have shown their distain for the lessons of history.

They've even disparaged those of us who are members of "the reality-based community", saying that while we judiciously study reality, they create new ones through action, leaving us to forever play catch up as they forge ahead as powerful actors on the stage of history.

But...and this is a big "but"...

By ignoring the lessons of biology, they forget that if a parasite kills the host, it endangers its own survival. They've parasitized the American media, and by launching this planned attack against Newsweek, they've awakened the media to the fact that unless they expel this parasite, it will kill them. The media will thus begin to fight off the parasite. I predict that in the end, the Fourth Estate will survive, and the * adminstration will be mere medical waste.

By ignoring the laws of gravity, they've convinced themselves that they can blow things up, but no debris will fall back to earth.

And by ignoring the laws of karma (if I may use such a term to describe the cause-and-effect of behavior and its consequences), they have convinced themselves that they can lie, cheat, and steal, and that by spinning these behaviors as "getting the truth out", "having a muscular policy", and "taking responsibility for resources that come under our authority", they will, by dint of the force of their confidence and assertiveness, make it so.

Alas. It is not to be.

King Canute stood at the seashore and commanded the waves to cease and the tide to retreat. But it didn't work out that way.

Those who disparage "reality" should remember: they're soaking in it.

Now, the air is filled with the beating of the wings of the flying monkeys come to scare us into surrendering Dorothy, when in the end, it's only simple, clear water that will melt away this evil.

"What a world, what a world."

Shoulda paid attention to the obvious. It's called "history". It's called "reality". And it's called "morality".

They've declared themselves above it. But reality, history, and yes, morality, always get the last word.

Buh-bye.

[LittleClarkie]

1. The media is mighty when they feel threatened

What they did to Dean, they can also do to the Bush Co.

[rodeodance]

2. probaly can--but will they?--I think not.

What they did to Dean, they can also do to the Bush Co.

[FreedomAngel82]

14. Only way I think

is if "management" wants to get rid of Bush because he's doing too much trouble. :shrug: I wonder if they would do that.

[rumpel]

17. Journalism is part of the money making scheme,

unfortunately the whole system is rigged to "either you are with us or against us", So every each one of those editors are sweating blood at the slight hint of blood. So they always smuggle in a word that implies a way out for them wherever the chip may fall.
There is no more courage and truth in journalism, it is bought and paid for by big buisness and the ultra right.

[FSogol]

26. Its more complicated than that...

The media goes with the official line and the talking points because it is easy. They have become lazy, bloated, and inefficient. They want their stories handed to them. Democrats must begin to hand them simple stories and explanations. They must create simple talking points and keep repeating them.

[Clark2008]

3. Well, all I have to say to the media is:

:hi: bleev!

[Dr Fate]

4. Waiting/hoping for the enemy to "fall on their sword" is not smart.

It's much better to stab them yourself.

Wish we did a little more stabbing a less hoping for a fall.

[Stinky The Clown]

5. I nominated this for the "greatest" page

Insightful, well written, spot on, and I agree with you completely.

We live today in the teeth of a gale. A veritable shitstorm not of our making. And we feel the full effect of that shitstorm on our faces and our souls.

When one allows one's mind to float above the fecal maelstrom, one sees the forces driving the maelstrom. The government will survive. The country will survive. We the people will survive. The cabal will not - and surely by expiration of their charter or by war with the Fourth Estate, abetted by we the people, they shall be gone.

This is an article of faith. I await the light of day on this faith.

[Al-CIAda]

6. Your keyboard to gods ear. n/t

[calimary]

7. Oh Dear God, that is frickin' BRILLIANT! WHAT a great line!!!

"Those who disparage "reality" should remember: they're soaking in it."

WHAT A GREAT LINE! Yes, I'm SHOUTING!!!! I want everyone to hear me!

Bravo! In fact, your entire post is just STELLAR!

And it's quite correct.

Consider all the purportedly invincible entities we've seen throughout history - that are little more than wreckage.

Rome, Egypt, Babylon, Carthage, Greece, the Huns, the Mongols, the Goths of all persuasions, the "Evil Empire" of the USSR, the Mayans, the Incas, the Aztecs, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire, the Romanovs, Napoleon, Goliath, Constantine the Great, Alexander the Great, Peter the Great, hell, even "John Paul the Great." The Armada was invincible. The sun never set on the British Empire. The Japanese seemed mighty invincible, as did the Third Reich. So did the apartheid system in South Africa. And so did "Tail-gunner" Joe McCarthy. Same for Nixon.

I think they're going to be even more desperately trying to get aloft to write "Surrender Dorothy" in the skies over our land. And they better enjoy the view while they have it. Because Dorothy and her friends prevailed. And eventually, so will we.

But it's taking pretty damned long, isn't it?! :mad:

[bleever]

8. Thanks for listing the evidence, calimary.

And for shouting!

:hi:

[Elidor]

9. You have much more faith in the US media than I do

Fuck them all. The long and the short and the tall.

[snowbear]

10. Oh ManNnnnnn...

I hate flying monkeys.. :scared:

Seriously.. I fast-forward through the flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz.. x(

[FreedomAngel82]

15. Whenever that movie was on

we'd all watch it in the living room and that part I would run upstairs and hide. ;)

[cyr330]

11. They won't touch BushCo

The media and BushCo are attached like Siamese twins. We all know that the corporate media is controlled by buddies of Dick and George, so why should it do anything to bring them down like a house of cards? Things are going to continue just as they have, and the only hope we have going for is is that perhaps the public will wake up and demand a change.

[Bluerthanblue]

12. OH Bleever, you

just used my most favorite story to illustrate your point-

and an important addendum to the Oz connection- Remember when Glenda came back after Dorothy missed her ballon ride? (because she was a bleeding heart liberal)
Glenda told her that 'the power' was with her all the time,- she just had to 'learn'- or something to that effect- Those ruby (silver in the book) could have 'taken her home' anytime- she just didn't know it-
And as another (real life) Idol of mine says, while he is so very close to dying of starvation rather than 'give in'-
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.
-- Mahatma Gandhi."

it isn't over yet- no matter how hard that is to hold onto- treasured 'things' are often so simple, yet so hard to grasp-

i believe- that good will 'out'

[FreedomAngel82]

16. Right

I personally don't think BushCo owns the media. Someone else does and it saves them. Someone else owns BushCo and makes them do what they do. Who though?

[Tace]

22. Old Money and Bankers

[understandinglife]

13. Superb, bleever. Thank you. Nominated.

Today, Galloway grabbed the chain and pulled really hard and not since McCarthy was told he had 'no decency' has a flushing sound that loud, roared through DC, America and the world.

Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[dchill]

18. Ooh-ooh that smell...

The stench is so thick you could cut it with a knife.

This entire regime is made of paper tigers - not a truly moral man or woman among them. In fact, morality would instantly disqualify any of them, were it to be found.

None of their deceits or misdirections would have worked without the willing self-subjugation of the cowardly American news media, whose boot-licking toadying-the-line press-release-regurgitating "journalism" has not only nearly destroyed the republic, but their own industry as well. (Sorry, I just watched "Hardball" for the first time in months and heard Matthews say "bad article" twice about the Newsweek piece.)

So now McClellan thinks he can blame the weeks of rioting in Pakistan and Afghanistan on a single line in a single article by a single news publication. It actually seems that he would like to lay all five years of Bush foreign policy blunders on the shoulders of Michael Isikoff. (Couldn't happen to a nicer guy, but really!)

This seems to me to be a HUGE gamble on the part of the Bush regime. Yes, they must really be living in a state of red-alert "terror" that some news organization with a shred of credibility will actually do some real reporting on the British memo, or Bush's Maryland bike ride, or TANG, or Jeff Gannon, or .....

It smells like someone overplayed their bullshit hand.

[bleever]

27. Welcome to DU, dchill. I liked your last line. It sums it all up.

And I almost went with the Lynyrd Skynyrd line in my original post; thanks for mentioning it.

[Stand and Fight]

19. Fan-frickin-tastic! n/t

[NightOwwl]

20. I just hope they don't take us all down with them. n/t

[carnie_sf]

21. Symbiosis

is not a word in these people's vocabularies

[Jose Diablo]

23. I want to say you are right, about the media being able to expunge

these neocon parasites.

But that outcome is far from certain. Look at Germany pre-WWII. What happened there is the media became totally dominated by the government forces.

When things get to a certain point, then the 'free press' is not able to overcome those that are dominating them. I think that point has been reached. We are actually beyond the point where the media is able to inform about what is really happening.

If the media did report, most of the people would just ignore it and continue on as before. All that would happen, is the agents of government would circle and destroy the individuals attempting to free the media.

I don't think we can depend on the media freeing itself from the corporate masters.

[CantGetFooledAgain]

24. Great post. We must maintain hope.

And confidence in the larger patterns and forces that regulate this world and everything in it.

[quaoar]

25. Yes, the media is chafing at its leash

But in the end, I fear we will all end up with monkey shit all over us.