We're going to have to face it...they're stupid.

[senseandsensibility]

End of story. I know that it is popular to believe that the corporate media whores are bought and paid for by the repukes. And I bought into it myself for many years. They shill shamelessly for chimp and his cronies. Such shilling must be a result of pressure from the white house, their corporate bosses, or others, right?

Well, I've come to a new conclusion. The * administration wants the networks' support, and their corporate bosses want the repukes in power so that they can get tax cuts and more "freedom" to expand their evil media empires. So far, so good.

But the thing is, NO PRESSURE IS NECESSARY!!! The "faces" on the TV screen are empty headed mouthpieces. They don't write the news. They spend hours on makeup and hair, and then read what is written for them by others.

Don't believe me? There were two good examples this week. Tweety has never heard of the Downing Street memo as of two days ago, and neither has a host of c-span. End of story. They're idiots. :argh: :(

[tnlefty]

1. I noticed this morning as I was watching Washington Journal

that as soon as a woman caller mentioned the Downing Street Memo, she was cut off. It was rather blatant.

[Nite Owl]

2. I'm beginning to think that too.

I used to think it had to be one or the other, they were in the pocket of the WH or they were stupid but I'm beigining to think it's both. They don't see the big picture of what is happening. They do their own little stories or reports and that's the end of it. They seem incapable of putting facts together, connecting the dots. And they get paid good money for this too. The ones that do 'get it', like Krugman or Palast are marginalized.

[ooglymoogly]

3. dumber than mud

try watching brit hume sometime or cl. klink or smarmy paula zahn...takes my breath away, you feel you need a bath after.

[xray s]

4. they should pay more attention to the internets

I wouldn't know about any of this stuff if it wasn't for sites like DU and dailyKos and TPM.

There you can find links to the European media and the few American sources that cover these stories.

If Rather had done a 15 minute search on the TANG memo story he would have found out that CalPundit had the story 6 months earlier but knew something wasn't quite right about the source.

[senseandsensibility]

6. You're right

But the corporate media would never lower itself to look at the bloggers' work. They are ignorant of, suspicious of, and threatened by it. So they ignore bloggers, and smear them with a broad brush at every opportunity.

[iconoclastic cat]

5. Ignorance is worse than stupidity.

[WilliamPitt]

7. Yup

[annabanana]

17. How is it possible that they haven't even HEARD of

the Downing St. Memo? It's hard for me to believe in that much stupidity. I try really hard not to ascribe to evil what can be explained by ignorance, but can this possibly be just a case of dumb?

[paineinthearse]

8. They're idiots

That's "idjuts".

good post

[Cocoa]

9. they both know about the Downing Street Memo

when they say they never heard of it, they're lying, just like when Michael Kinsley said he never heard of PNAC.

[Al-CIAda]

13. I agree and will not let them off so easily. Laziness and vanity play its

part, but the are also LYING ttheir asses off for this WH.

PNAC, PNAC, PNAC -why isn't this more exposed?

COVER-UP.

[Cats Against Frist]

19. Matthews used to talk about neocons

then, he got orders to stop -- from high up, I suspect -- and though he joked about it, for a while -- there's nary a mention of it, now.

[SpaceCatMeetsMars]

10. It's willful stupidity and ignorance, though.

Very different from innocent stupidity.

[senseandsensibility]

16. I don't know

I've seen signs of stupidlty from Matthews, Woofwoof, and others. Like their mentor, *, they are guilty of extreme intellectual dishonesty and laziness. I think this is a sign of both stupidity and immorality.

[bush_is_wacko]

11. I agree that they are "just mouthpieces" but...

I think they ALSO gain from playing stupid. They lend credence to whatever BushCo can come up with to make it look as if the Downing Street Memo is nothing more than a tinfoil hat theory created by INTERNET nuts.

Pretending to not know about the memo gives the machine time to come up with a way to make up a really good story about how a bunch of evil American insurgents (i.e. liberals) are attempting to make our omnipotent president look bad.

You know the NASCAR redneck crowd really do believe all us liberals are out to get them. That is what is keeping them from figuring out the truth on their own.

[mitchum]

12. It's show business for people who can't even juggle or do bird calls

[senseandsensibility]

15. LOL

I DO have respect for a good juggler or bird caller. :rofl:

[sandnsea]

14. newsmodels n/t

[kittenpants]

18. that's the perfect term for them...except I still can't figure out why

Larry King is on TV...?