A letter in the New York Times...

[kentuck]

Some people get it!
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/18/opinion/l18dems.html

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Re “Pelosi Rebuffed Over Her Choice for House Post” (front page, Nov. 17): Get over it and celebrate! It’s called debate, ladies and gentlemen, a phenomenon that has been sadly missing in the lockstep Republican Congress. Had there been an inkling of in-rank dissension during the last six years, an ensuing debate might have avoided the abyss in which we currently find ourselves.

If this first challenge in the Democratic House is the media’s concept of divisiveness, then is there any question as to why the media failed to demand accountability from this monumentally incompetent administration?

Angelo Presicci
San Francisco, Nov. 17, 2006

[ClintonTyree]

1. Spot on....

and it took someone with "San Francisco values" to point this out to them? :eyes:
The Corporate Media is trying to sew the seeds of discontent. They will fail. Miserably.

[kentuck]

2. Tom Delay would never have lost this vote...

As another writer pointed out...

[alittlelark]

3. Newt Grinchish didn't get his choice in 1994 either....

so be it.

[moondust]

4. Glad somebody else has noticed this.

The friggin media, primarily cable news and I presume wingnut radio though I don't listen to it, have assumed this mindset wherein lockstep, top-down, military style, dictatorial conformity is "normal" and if all the lemmings don't obediently go on over the cliff there is something wrong. Apparently after 12 years of Republican nonsense many seem to have forgotten what diversity, discussion, debate, and disagreement are like--basically, how democracy works in a pleural society.

Good letter.

[DeepModem Mom]

5. K&R

[democrank]

6. Flipping through cable news programming

is like walking into a clothing store and seeing rows and rows of the same shirt in either white or off-white. One station picks up on a talking point...."Democrats in disarray"....and within minutes it`s everywhere. Same talking point, same pundits, same party spokespersons.

John McCain is adoringly referred to as a "maverick" even though he goes along with Bush most of the time, while Feingold is simply "far left" because he doesn`t. Media folks aren`t really interested in a real debate. Why try to squeeze a bunch of facts into a two-minute segment? What they are interested in is a winners-and-losers game, who`s up and who`s down. The real loser is the viewing public that deserves the truth.

[Straight Shooter]

7. Excellent analogy, democrank.

"... walking into a clothing store and seeing rows and rows of the same shirt in either white or off-white."

:thumbsup: