We’re the ones who carried water for them, we’re the ones who stuck up for them, we’re the ones who made excuses for them, we’re the ones who gave them both houses of Congress and they’re the ones, with their selfishness and their incompetence and their cowardice, who screwed it all up and delivered the rest of us into the clutches of President Barabbas Barometer and his minions for the next four, no make it eight, years.

What do Bush and those GOP grandees care? They’re insulated. Whatever happens, they’re still rich and going to make themselves richer, they still have the perks and the privileges of office and they still think they can boss the rest of us around.

Well, screw Bush, screw the GOP and screw the horses they rode in on. They want my support, they can work for it for a change, the miserable scum.

Phew. Rant over. Feel better now…

AND

Anyone old enough to remember the Carter years, will no doubt agree, that he was probably THE WORST PRESIDENT–hands down–we have ever had.

No one disagrees with the Gestapo tactics of Dems – but the 3 people you cited either LOST or are out of office, therefore look AHEAD to 2010. Bush had zero to gain by saying anything negative, and everything to lose from the low brow tactics the MSM and Dems use, that you mentioned. There is also Presidential precedance that prior Presidents uphold on criticizing, unless a (D) is next to your name.

Lessons from history are important – but when that anger muddies the proactivity of winning, we are lost.

I am angry as hell – but using that anger for the better. We can use hard hitting tactics – but not like the dirty scum of Dem/liberal soiling our country.

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Are they f%$#^%&% kidding me?

This is from Rush’s show today.

Every once in a while, I think that maybe I’m the nut for ranting about the wealthy oligarchy using socialism to highjack the country……..but then I read something like this and see that Thomas Jefferson had the same opinion of Alexander Hamilton. I guess if I’m a nut, so is the author of the Declaration of Independence.

Nope, I noted and logged the media control thing a long time ago. I do not watch MSM. I occasionally watch it if they have something relevant to report, like flight 1549 which I had a big interest in. Noting, of course, their excitability and need for enhancing the already high drama.

But I have also noted the zombies who still think that the news media, the newspapers and magazines all report “the truth”. When it comes down to it, when these entities report on something I know about and get most of the details universally wrong, it’s easy to translate that to everything they report. At the same time, it boggles the mind to imagine a huge newsroom, with fact checkers and investigators working so diligently to get it all so wrong.

But that’s my level of cynicism. I think a certain amount is healthy…usually referred to as “pragmatism”…and being able to plan ahead and of course, see where other things can go horribly wrong. Kind of like watching a 3 year old fix their first bowl of cereal, ever.

My frustration, like a lot of people’s is the blatant misrepresentation of things. In Texas, we say, “Boy, don’t pee on my boots and tell me it’s raining” and similar. I grew up with and harbor an intense dislike of BS, unless it’s a bunch of folks going on about things that are just fun. But when it comes to the government saying “take this pill and swallow, you’ll like it, it’s good for you” well, naturally I’m gonna be just a little skeptical if not out and out wary.

In my line of work, there’s a little phrase that we use that goes, “We’re from the government and we’re here to help.” Of course you can see mine and my co-workers is a corner-of-the-eye looking at you bunch. So I’m no stranger to how the media completely slides the real information off the radar, puts frosting on a cow patty, or tries to sell me a polished turd. But somewhere along the line I stopped laughing at the likes of Brian Williams and his ilk and instead became angry when I hear other people talking about “what was on the news” as if it was factual.

Ratings, which translates into income for the producers and owners of the news programs along with people who work there who have an agenda that “rules, standards and ethics” are for the “bad, evil, buzz-killers in suits”, and the all-too-eager viewing/listening public that has learned how to not think and let the information process itself, and it will tell you EVERYTHING…from what’s dangerous at the grocery store (usually a crap story to keep you tuned in) to fabricating complete lies about what the government is up to.

And it’s all packaged like a very serious, very important document. Listening to the opening blab of any network news show, and once…just once for giggles, I actually used a stopwatch to time the total amount of time NBC’s Williams and other reporters spent addressing the news. It was about 17 minutes in that half hour. I didn’t count the fluff piece about a fireman rescuing the kitty.

Commercials, casually inserted plugs for this or that point of view…etc. I only timed when he or another reporter was addressing the news, accurate or not.

So, I’m keenly aware of THEM.

Their power, though, is only the power that the average drooling mouth-breather will let them have. And there lies the rub, aye. Once the networks realized they could not only get the news out there, but could (at first) slant it and (later) tailor-make it…by several different mechanisms, be it selective information picking, source picking, and certainly choice of words..not to mention WHO does the reporting and all that.

In my own mind, I am firmly convinced that a conversation with someone like Brian Williams about anything…anything at all…would reveal that he is a moron. Well-spoken to be sure. looks sharp on camera. Good diction, focuses his gaze well. But, try to have a conversation with him about, oh, military hardware or house construction or, hell, tires for that matter and I’m sure I’d quickly find that he’s swimming in the shallow end of the knowledge pool. Knows a little about a lot…but not much about any one specific thing. Except maybe male grooming products which will get a person far in life.

And, although I see it, the “snobby information class” who likes to rub elbows with the political elite and entertainers, losing some ground, it does seem to be a perpetual motion machine. That’s probably because they use all the best marketing ploys in the business and keep people wanting more.

My frustration, I guess, is more aimed at the lack of clever wordsmiths who can take a popular liberal’s statement and throw it back in their lap, on fire, and have the liberal thank them for it. Yes, Reagan was a good one for that. But, as I’ve said, I get tired of clever little word and mind games. I call it “drama” and it seems most everyone in this country is addicted to it. Drives me nuts. Like those jokes about “what a woman says vs. what she means”.

I would love for a noted politician…one of immense respectability to just come out and start listing FACTS…not quite the way Rush does…but clearly and to the point with almost a complete lack of emotion. Kind of like the way my dad used to lecture me when I got caught in a lie as a kid.

That’s my pipe dream. And if one can do it and then two then four then eight and on and on…

I remember well when Ronald Reagan said, several times, “There you go again”.

Gaffs and faux pas’s are to be expected but…. I was taught long ago, don’t argue with stupid people….they will eventually drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience” and yes, we need to stay above all that but at the same time, I itch for a seriously powerful case of “smackdown” where the conservative factually and accurately dissects every attempt at “facts” the liberals make.