The Press needs to tell the Candidates that if they LIE, they will pay the price

[LaydeeBug]

and by "The Candidates" I mean Mitt Romney. When a lying liar tells a lying lie, this is not 'we won, you lost, case closed'. In fact, the campaign needs to say it now too.

Lie again, and you'll pay the price.

That simple

I notice that they've become stenographers when Mitt lies his ass off, and psychologists when it comes to what President Obama is thinking when he shifted his balance from one foot to the other.

[Flashmann]

1. But aren't the same billionaires

That bribe the lying liars to lie also the same folks who own most of the media and in effect pay that media to NOT report the lying?.....

[brush]

2. Spot on post

You nailed it. I remember when journalists actually comforted the afflicted and afflicted the comfortable. Those days are long gone because of the reason you stated.

[Flashmann]

3. I remember when journalists

Me too...And Walter Cronkite,Huntley and Brinkley and the like aint coming back......Ever.....

[woo me with science]

4. Their interest is in a horse race, because their interest is in profit.

Have you ever watched "The Newsroom"? Fantastic show that helps to explain how the role of the media as watchdog has been utterly corrupted by financial/corporate concerns...the morphing of news shows into ratings-grabbing entertainment and mouthpieces for the corporate interests that control them.

It's heartening to see citizens calling out the media and demanding accountability here.

When we raise hell, we can make all the carefully constructed scenery fall down.

[OSPREYXIV]

5. No More Excuses (Another Teachable Moment)

Bob Herbert's latest for the Huffington Post is the only real journalism so far addressesing the very bizarre behavior we witnessed Wednesday night.
(When both Herbert and Frank Rich were tossed from the NYT's op-ed staff at more or less the same, it went unnoticed by mainstream media.
They rocking the corporate boat. As you put said,
they "paid the price" of telling the truth to power.)

Even trained professionals react less quickly when confronted with deviant behavior because at a deeper, more visceral level, we can sense danger. The unexpected seems crazy, a sign of danger, so we instinctively recoil in fear. (Romney's known as his own adviser so we can assume Wednesday's act is a continuum along a pathological spectrum.

When narcissists feel threatened they defend by lying uncontrollably. Romney et. al. fear Obama. Their fear evokes their habitual lies. Obama also felt threatened when confronted with Romney's strange, hyper-aggressive behavior. It threw him. He reacted instinctively and because he had not prepared himself well, he froze.

Herbert got branded as being an "ultra-liberal" by the right-wing stooges for telling them the truth and it probably cost him his job. He's confronted
Obama with something he really needed to hear:
"No more excuses. Stop believing you're special. Do what you promised to do: your job. Stand up and fight for the people who put you there."
Herbert is a real journalist.

[Wounded Bear]

6. Whatever......but they are paying a price...

Have you seen some of the latest ads from Team Obama?

They just write themselves. You show the video of them contradicting themselves. You even save money on actors and production costs. Much of the video in available in the public domain. Show them spewing their hate speech and their deprecating statements about the American people. Show people who they really are.

Can't do much better than that.

[treestar]

7. True they are disgracefully bad

They do not deliver substance. They did not fact check Rmoney at all.