Why did the MSM diss Pelosi so bad today - when she made BIG History???

[RiverStone]

Caught the first 10 minutes of ABC & CBS nightly news tonight. Nancy Pelosi becomes the first woman in our land's history to become Speaker of the House; yet the historical significance was not even mentioned! Instead, Charles and Katie briefly spoke of her Speaker nod, then spent several minutes (with commentary) focused on her "failure of leadership" and questioned her judgment for getting involved in the Hoyer/Murtha vote at all. What a bunch of B.S.

The MSM over exaggerated the negative and under exaggerated the VERY positive; that Nancy will become in January, the first American woman ever to be 3d in line from the Presidency. Who's sour grapes is that?

[NOLADEM]

1. cuz they're liberal?

(sarcasm)

[Cha]

Because they don't want to People

to have their say..it's corporatewhoredom all the way to the bank.

Shame on fucking katty couric.

[flowomo]

2. I agree with you, but she's not "third in line"

yet. Not until January.

[BlooInBloo]

5. She won't be 3rd in line then, either. Sheesh.

[flowomo]

12. ?

who then?

[RiverStone]

16. Yes, she will be 3d in line. Defined here...

The Speaker of the House is third in line for the Presidency of the United States. If the President of the United States dies or cannot carry out his office, the Vice President of the United States becomes President. If the Vice President also dies or cannot carry out his office, the Speaker of the House automatically becomes the next President.

The current Speaker of the House is Dennis Hastert of Illinois, a Republican. The expected Speaker of the House for the next Congress will be Nancy Pelosi of California, a Democrat.

Retrieved from "http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaker_of_the_House"

Still, the MSM sucks!

[flowomo]

17. here's the whole shebang:

Today --- The Presidential Succession Act of 1947 (Amended)

Cabinet officers have been in the line for presidential succession since 1886. So, whenever the structure of the Cabinet changes, the Presidential Succession Act must be amended to reflect the changes. Since the law was first enacted in 1947, for example, the Secretary of War has been replaced by the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of the Navy and the Postmaster General have been removed from the Cabinet, and six new Cabinet departments have been added. The current law preserves the tradition of ranking the Cabinet departments by the year they were founded.

The line of succession is currently:

1. Vice President
2. Speaker of the House
3. President Pro Tempore of the Senate
4. Secretary of State
5. Secretary of the Treasury
6. Secretary of Defense
7. Attorney General
8. Secretary of the Interior
9. Secretary of Agriculture
10. Secretary of Commerce
11. Secretary of Labor
12. Secretary of Health and Human Services
13. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
14. Secretary of Transportation
15. Secretary of Energy
16. Secretary of Education
17. Secretary of Veterans Affairs

[BlooInBloo]

19. My. God. What number is next to Speaker of the House? Sheesh.

[flowomo]

20. ah, I see... you're right.... the president is not "in line"...

but I'll split the difference: being president, he has first claim, and she has third.

[BlooInBloo]

23. I love the contortions you go to to avoid admitting being wrong! lol!

She *has* NO claim whatsover (even in a month or so). He *has* ALL claim. If two people die, in a month or so, she *will* have ALL claim.

Sorry - you were just dead wrong, and stupidly so. Quitting while you're behind would be prudent, but that's totally up to you.

[RiverStone]

26. Geeez Bloo..why so insulting???

The point of my post was to diss the MSM for raging on Nancy. Right or wrong on the 3d in line thing is NO BIG DEAL either way - again please look at the original post. Clueless why ya would bring "stupidly" into it? Chill...

As a relative newbie to this wonderful place we call DU, it seems distraction is a tool some weld with a purpose. I'm learning. The BIGGER DEAL is Nancy's gonna rock and WE have the Speakers seat!!!! With MSM buy in or not...

[BlooInBloo]

28. When we criticize, but can't reliably count to 2, it makes us ALL look stupid.

That bugs me. I want the team I'm on to perform better.

Fine if you're satisfied with low-grade performance, but I personally think we're gonna someday face a team that's better than the one we played a week ago. It would be nice if we were a bit sharper.


EDIT: Put it this way: Better to catch crap here, from me or someone else, than to have a thread on freerepublic talking about how stupid DUers are, and how they don't care about the truth, yadayadayada.

[flowomo]

30. wow, that's congenial of you.

sorry I bothered to reply.

[BlooInBloo]

31. I'm sorry you're biggest concern is my presentation, rather than the...

... fact that counting to 2 is challenging for you.

Perfect American - the truth is far less important than hearing feel-good things.

[argyl]

40. That should be "your", not "you're" . If we're going to nitpick, that's

my contribution.

[BlooInBloo]

41. Thanks for catching the typo!

[RiverStone]

37. BTW, thanks Flowomo for clarity on the...

Succesion thing. :)

How wonderful it will be come January when 1-17 are ALL a shade of BLUE. :kick:

[BlooInBloo]

38. Indeed. Thanks for clarifying the long hard count to 2.

[BlooInBloo]

18. Then wikipedia is wrong. Sheesh.

[GregD]

3. One gets the idea that the media consider us the enemy

and that the honeymoon is over, and they are on the attack. I predict this will not change much unless the public makes a massive point to them that they overwhelmingly elected the Democratic Party to lead them, and that the crap is to now stop.

[annabanana]

13. we ARE the enemy!

It's "HaHa they're falling apart already" because that is what their bosses want the story to be.

The electorate is restive. They have this powerful "series of tubes" and it's harder than ever before to keep information out of their hands. They're getting "ideas" about things like.. "economic justice" and "populism" and other dangerous notions that threaten the godlike power of the big money guys like them. The next thing you know any old scummy, prole citizen will be sticking their noses where they don't belong.... creeping into the corners where we get our money and special deals and exposing the secrets that always seem to keep us one jump ahead of regulations and oversight..

We just can't have that, can we..

[MadMaddie]

4. It's a huge insult..

Fuck the MSM....they have nothing else to do but focus on the negative...
Nancy made history today and she deserves more respect than she got today!!

[AnotherMother4Peace]

14. A huge insult & very sad. I find myself turning off these idiots a lot lately.

[aquart]

25. Well, I dunno.

Yeah, she's the first lady speaker.....but they barely notice that. They're on to how much power she has, whether she'll keep it, did she win or lose in this first test.......

Her being a woman is.......yeah, she's a woman......but is she really a powerful woman.....

What I'm trying to say is that if Nancy being the first female speaker isn't the biggest thing in the news........women have arrived....unpacked....moved in......and somebody already knows how we take our coffee. WE'RE HERE! And it's no big deal! Lady, we done done it!

[bluerum]

6. SCREW THE MSM. They are increasingly irrelevant. nt

[Moochy]

7. How many liberals own networks or metro newspapers?

[JeffR]

8. It's worse than sour grapes

It's sabotage. And it's just begun.

[pinto]

9. They were looking for a controversy to trumpet. I took it all with a

big grain of salt.

[Mythsaje]

10. The Corporate Media is not only

an obstacle. I believe it's become our ENEMY.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2735619&mesg_id=2735619

[knowbody0]

11. we really do have to stop expecting anything

different from MSM. We are their enemy, they see us like cockroaches that need to be stamped out.

[woodsprite]

15. Because they believe a woman's place is in the bedroom and kitchen. nt

[Captain Hilts]

21. Because her guy lost. It had to be a disappointment. Breaks of the game. nt

[Patsy Stone]

22. You know the answer

Or were you just speaking rhetorically? :)

[msongs]

24. ummm, because she is NOT SPEAKER yet? until January? nt

[Sydnie]

27. I heard just a bit of a conservative radio talking head tonight

talking about the "massive mistake" Pelosi made today. Then, she got a caller who pointed out that it had only been 8 days since the election, and why were they already looking for things to call a "mistake". The talking head replied "Because we're not in power anymore and it's all we've got". I thought that was probably the most honest statement anyone from that side had made in a long time. For a minute, then I remembered that even when they were in power, they spent more time talking about what the dems didn't/could do or screwed up. So, that's not really it either. Actually, it's all they have ever had, and it worked for a while, but it's not even working for all their listeners anymore. That's a good thing. Even they have grown tired of the bashing and the childishness. When MSM follows, we will all be better off.

Oh, one more note about what I heard the talking head say. She was talking about bipartisanship and how she hoped that the dems would reach across the aisle ... so that the President and the GOP could finally get something done. It will take a lot more callers like the one I heard tonight to get her to change ... because, well, that's all she has too.

[mitchum]

29. Because they are loyal trained dogs of their corporate masters?

[NotGivingUp]

32. because it's not the 'news' ....it's the corporate propaganda machine

[BrewerJohn]

33. It's just the usual Dem bashing...and it's nothing new at all

I remember when all the media were talking about Clinton's "failed presidency",
when at the time he had barely been a month in office.

The big media chose their side a long time ago, and they're sticking with it.

[Doctor_J]

34. Because they work for Rove

They are in complete control of the media. Even the non-GOP outlets today - Stpeh, Hartmann, Malloy - spent their entire tim eon the air talking about the D "infighting". The ultra-right has a death grip on the media and on the USA.

[zulchzulu]

35. MSM slaves just get their marching orders from their Masters

Do you think the MSM Ken and Barbie whores that grace your pixels on the Idiot Box are going to NOT read the Teleprompter? They get special points for licking their Master's war machine toes...

[upi402]

36. dang librul meadya

:evilgrin:

[bdamomma]

39. I wish we voted in a new MSM!

[madmusic]

42. She's tough and can take it.

No worries.

typo

[politicasista]

43. Because the GOP controls most, if not all broadcast media

Yet people think that certain candidates will be impossible to smear or be "swiftboated" by the media. Anyone that thinks that is in or will be in for a rude awakening.