Day: August 5, 2011

Get Your Talking Points On

From time to time I like to do a little something for my readers….and this is one of those…..this post will save them hours of endless chatter on the tellie…..for a month they can have peace and find other avenues for their creativity……..

Now that the people that we elect have gone for the rest of the Summer from Washington…..what will they be talking about to the people once they get off their knees in front of donors?

Ever wonder why politicians seem to have the same opinions when they are interviewed?  Well, let me see….the Dems will be talking jobs and the GOP’s attempt to end Medicare…….the GOP will be telling you all about how they are saving the country by their spending victory before they left Washington….and the media will be a willing partner to let them rattle on about stuff that has NO foot in reality……

The National Journal has the Dem talking points memo……http://njour.nl/riCxoq  Read and weep…….

But what about the Repubs….what will be their contribution to the BS ………August recess House Republican talking points, National Journal.

Both of them are LYING!  They have accomplished NOTHING that will save this country from itself!  The truly sad part about this drama is that the voter will eat it up and few will ask the important questions of….just how did you accomplish what you did?  The American people, which ever side they are on, will cheer, whistle and yell as if these people had found a cure for the sadness that they have brought unto the country…..

People!  All they have are talking points and those points were given to them by PR whores that work for the system that is causing the sadness….all that you can do is two things…..1–buck up and endure the screwing you are about to take or 2–put your foot down and demand MORE for the money we pay them, not the money that special interests pay them!

Be prepared for the big YAWN that will dominate the rest of the Summer or just turn to the Cartoon Network and get some real entertainment.

I accept the gratitude of a adoring public…..(crap!  I could not resist)……..(LOL)

The Media As A Referee?

(Let me finish laughing…it hurts so bad)……NO!  A thousand times NO!  To say the media….ALL the media….were just reporting the facts to the American people is in NO small way delusional……I, as well as many of us on the so-called Left, have said that the media is nothing more than op-ed TV….that is why most of the people that I know that want the facts and only the facts go to….BBC News or Reuters et al…….but to my point….the whole debt deal that was played endlessly in the American media showed just how silly the media was in its handling of the ginned up “crisis”……yes, I will continue to bitch about this subject!

For instance…….this from a much respected news man Tom Brokaw……

Tom Brokaw on Meet the Press :

This is not just a Democratic problem or a Republican problem, the whole country was in on this to get us to this stage. Now, we’re in a huge spending binge in this country. Everybody was along for the ride for a long, long time. President Bush started a war on a credit card. It’s been going on for 10 years. We have prescription drug benefits for the seniors that are not paid for. SEC wasn’t looking at what was happening on Wall Street. Democrats were pushing house ownership for people who didn’t really deserve and shouldn’t be buying houses. At the same time, they were not willing to step up on reforming Medicare and on Medicaid and Social Security. The country itself, they were spending money like crazy, and they were—they’d gotten used to having Washington take care of whatever they needed.

That seems to be the common narrative on this pile of bovine fecal matter……Joe Rosen has a different view about what Brokaw and others are reporting…….

This is what the majority of our journalists believe about the debt crisis. It was created by both sides. It will have to be resolved by both sides. The American people are hugely to blame, as well. The division of responsibility is thus miraculously equal: one third to the Democrats, one third to the Republicans, one third to the public.No distinctions between the parties are tenable. It’s 50-50 all the way down. Symmetrical. Equal and opposite. Neat and clean. Exquisitely balanced.

To the press? Zero responsibility.

This is what a majority of our political journalists believe. Therefore, they should go to war for this interpretation. They should own it. For it is theirs.

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They should drop the fiction of themselves as chroniclers, referees and interlocutors and get down in the muck with the rest of us. Here’s what we think and goddamnit we think we’re right!

The media continues to pretend that they some how speak for all of us….that is CRAP!  Bloggers are more in tuned than the press will ever be…..the press likes to identify us bloggers as people who sit around in our mother’s basement eating Cheetos and typing…….their arrogance is why they are JOKES!  Most political bloggers are very astute observers of the subject they write about….I am NOT talking about those people that spend all their effort calling names and insulting anyone who does not agree with them…..but for the media to try and paint bloggers as some whacked out nerd sitting around in the underwear is just petty jealousy and arrogance.