I'll Straight Up Tell You Who Needs To Apologize: America's Bullshit 4th Estate...

[bridgit]

this bullshit 'informational' free press of ours; these cushy-chaired, paunchy, buttoned up red vest wearing, laptop slackers too so very willing to cry, "but do you have corroborating evidence" (where they will not secure it themselves) and skewed, caustic "what if?" games while g.w. bush shreds the bill of rights before both: the world & their lying tongued eyes these C&D list Georgetown cocktail lizards that have asked not even a handful of pertinent questions though have by their sins of omission ushered in death, chaos, and never-ending war & rumors of war instead for little more than a giddy embedded pass with a slap happy ID photo, and a rumsfeld pat on the top of their pointy heads...on their way to what they hoped would be a prize for themselves; seen by all as the 2nd greatest generation; nonsense: Apologize!!!

it is disgusting to me, to see this so-called boot licking free press cow towed before a lock stepping republican party-line that excludes all the blood of every american split on every foreign shore, pooling in the mud & bloody sand for their rights they have frittered away and they need to apologize to america, americans, and the world beyond for their conceit, their collusion,

Bullshit American 4th Estate Apologize!

apologize, for allowing g.w. bush free reign without question

apologize, for the blood split by any & all americans of every political stripe so that you can pick & choose your omissions from within your comfort & leisure

apologize, for your failure to channel the most important issues of this troubled nation days before a critical election

apologize, for towing a one party-party line

apologize, for your sins of omission and they are legion by many if not all account

apologize, for the deaths you have contributed to by the untimely dispensation of an office afforded you by many, many others

apologize, for your wasteful misuse of precious little time for little more than ad dollars & demographics

apologize, for your collusive sanction of a crippling fossil economy but NOT reporting on the creative advances in renewable technologies

apologize, for not holding republicans to ANY standards (let alone the same standards as everyone else) ala the woefully incomplete, smarmy: John Boehner, and his lying, wrongfully blaming tongue

apologize, for frittering away 4 days worth of news cycles on a republican dictated theme ala John Kerry when this nation is coming apart at the seams for wholly other reasons created by republicans themselves, how baseless, how shameless can you possibly be 'free' press: Apologize!!! Now!

apologize, for being clearly over paid at the expense of a world of death, genocide, collusion, theft, money laundering, petro-dollars, war, war profiteering, and crony no-bid contracts you refuse to expose...apologize, it is time for you to do so

claw, scratch & climb your way...cause i know you can do it Bullshit 4th Estate; i've seen you do it with my own eyes, but with your own bloody fingers claw, scratch & climb your way without tether, or safety harness, up-the-front-her: The Statue Of Liberty herself. then into her French, rolled copper eye: Apologize!! make me believe it if you can, so-called american 4th estate free press. be contrite, i won't be the only one watching, or listening

that's where i will be, wrapped within my Freedoms & Liberties; looking back Bullshit American 4th Estate C&D list Georgetown cocktail lizards...cause i wanna see you do it, i wanna see you do something, beside' nothing at all...try to make me proud once again ya'bunch ah'duuph'z

free press my ass, you people need to stop being paid by the inch, and start being paid by the truth, by the pertinent question...you'd never make your mortgage

[BobRossi]

1. Amen!

War crimes trials should start with them.

[Ignacio Upton]

2. Recommended!

Fuck the douchebag presstitutes!

[Kali]

3. No shit!

right on!

[mitchum]

4. Kicked & Recommended

well said

[kster]

5. KICK N RECOMMENDED.......NT

[Scribe]

6. Yet, despite this total failure, you managed to find the truth.

So are you exceptional?

I haven't been to Iraq so all my information is from the 4th Estate.

[billbuckhead]

8. But look how long it took America to find out the truth

2700 dead is just the start. The "press" is embeded in this whole treasoness enterprise.

[Scribe]

12. How long did it take you to see the truth? Have you been to Iraq

and North Korea or are you actually just as reliant on journalists as all the rest of us?

You want to accuse the messenger of treason because other people failed to see the truth that you were able to see in the same message?

Where did you learn the truth about Iraq or the Kerry slip? Where did you get the number 2700 dead? You didn't count them! The press told you. Journalists probably told you most of what you know about American policy and actions. Your position is absurd.

Worry about yourself instead of the thousands dumber than you; those too stupid to read what you read and see the truths you see.

[bridgit]

13. 'the press' has only done so very recently, and as a function of...

exponentially mounting evidence to the contrary vis-a-vis the rose colored glasses view of g.w. bush & his handlers "we're going to be treated as liberators" "they'll be throwing candy bars at us yada-yada), for years it was verboten to publish photos of flag draped coffins coming back from iraq, some were fired most unceremoniously for having done so

you keep trying to make that point "have you been there? well, have you been there? then you're position is just plain silly!"

well i mean really...i myself know that i do not have to break my arm to know it's going to hurt, and if i know that...why didn't g.w. bush know it was going to be a colossal, cataclysmic mess trying to occupy Babylon in the course of stealing their oil wealth? a cursory reading of the history of Mesopotamia would clue virtually anyone into the fact that it was not going to be a cake-walk, those people have been duking it out since the dawn of recorded history but i didn't learn that from 'the press', i read me a book or two

and those were some of the questions this 4th estate should have been asking g.w. bush long imo = "Are you sure you know what you're doing, George?"

[Scribe]

18. Neither of us has been there. We've both had JUST the Press!!

Where have you gotten your information about the world? All that you (and I) know about conditions in Iraq is from the reporting. Similarly, journalists have provided you all you know and think about North Korea, Lebanon and Albania.

The more you write, the more you seem to be wrong. It was never forbidden to publish photos of flag-covered coffins. The military refused photo journalists the opportunity to take those pictures but a few leaked out. They were published and no one was fired.

The questions you wanted to see asked were asked and ducked. If you believe Ambassador Galbreath's claims, America elected a President who was unaware of divisions within Islam. Bush, Galbreath's new book claims, didn't know about Shiites and Sunnis but thought "the Iraqis are all Muslim."

That didn't surprise me. I knew Bush was an ill-informed non-inquisitive dullard long before he was elected. It is not the Press' fault that Bush didn't know that. It is not the Press' fault that America elected such a buffoon. I watched the same TV and read the same newspapers as you and everyone else and I figured that out based on the information provided.

It was all there in the mainstream media. But people don't watch or read what they don't want to hear or learn. You seem to think reporters should go door to door to force voters to pay attention. Also, please. please learn the meaning of 'your' and 'you're'.

End of discussion.

[KittyWampus]

19. Jouranalists HAVE informed DU'ers. But not the corporate mediawhore journalists

I am beholden to people like Will Pitt.

Oh, and then there are a few exceptions like Sy Hersch.

[bridgit]

9. I'm just average, common too...

I'm just like him, the same as you
I'm everybody's brother and son
I ain't different from anyone
It ain't no use a-talking to me
It's just the same as talking to you.

I was shadow-boxing earlier in the day
I figured I was ready for Cassius Clay
I said "Fee, fie, fo, fum, Cassius Clay, here I come
26, 27, 28, 29, I'm gonna make your face look just like mine
Five, four, three, two, one, Cassius Clay you'd better run
99, 100, 101, 102, your ma won't even recognize you
14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, gonna knock him clean right out of his spleen."

Well, I don't know, but I've been told
The streets in heaven are lined with gold
I ask you how things could get much worse
If the Russians happen to get up there first.
Wowee! Pretty scary!

Now, I'm liberal, but to a degree
I want ev'rybody to be free
But if you think that I'll let Barry Goldwater
Move in next door and marry my daughter
You must think I'm crazy!
I wouldn't let him do it for all the farms in Cuba.

Well, I set my monkey on the log
And ordered him to do the Dog
He wagged his tail and shook his head
And he went and did the Cat instead
He's a weird monkey, very funky.

I sat with my high-heeled sneakers on
Waiting to play tennis in the noonday sun
I had my white shorts rolled up past my waist
And my wig-hat was falling in my face
But they wouldn't let me on the tennis court.

I gotta woman, she's so mean
She sticks my boots in the washing machine
Sticks me with buckshot when I'm nude
Puts bubblegum in my food
She's funny, wants my money, calls me "honey."

Now I gotta friend who spends his life
Stabbing my picture with a bowie-knife
Dreams of strangling me with a scarf
When my name comes up he pretends to barf.
I've got a million friends!

Now they asked me to read a poem
At the sorority sister's home
I got knocked down and my head was swimmin'
I wound up with the Dean of Women
Yippee! I'm a poet, and I know it.
Hope I don't blow it.

I'm gonna grow my hair down to my feet so strange
So I look like a walking mountain range
And I'm gonna ride into Omaha on a horse
Out to the country club and the golf course.
Carry the New York Times, shoot a few holes, blow their minds.

Now you're probably wondering by now
Just what this song is all about
What's probably got you baffled more
Is what this thing here is for.
It's nothing
It's something I learned over in England.

:hi:

[razors edge]

7. Total agreement

the press feeds the problem as no politician can on their own.

[bridgit]

17. cheers...

:toast:

[BlueEyedSon]

10. hear, hear!

[struggle4progress]

11. Corporate media guards corporate interests. As long as ownership

wasn't too concentrated, the fact that different groups sometimes had different interests created some opportunities for competitive reporting. But now a handful of corporate conglomerates as part of a large scale integration strategy that includes manipulating popular opinion ...

[bridgit]

14. that works...

i used to work for clear channel after they bought Bill Graham Prod who i worked for after Bill hired me himself...but then i quit when i seen what-all they were doing & how they did it, now they are said to be entering bankruptcy/receivership and that the carlyle group is eying them for a leveraged buyout, an expertise of carlyle waiting for corporate entities to squeal and step in...what will they say? how will they say it? will there be anything left to say?

[Cosmocat]

15. SUPPORT !!!

Spineless, gutless sell outs ...

[mmonk]

16. K&R

:kick: