Reply #3: I Find More Fault With The Media Than With Kerry [View All]

[JimGinPA]

I believe one of the major obstacles in this election was the way that Kerry was portrayed by the media. You have to give that slimey bastard Rove a lot of credit on the one hand for their spinmasters being able to completely dominate the media, but in my opinion a great deal of the blame for the outcome of this election, and its eventual unimaginable effects on all of us, lies directly at the feet of the media. And they're the ones who should be held accountable.

BushCo didn't "define" Kerry (as was so often intimated by the press), the media did. They didn't let any momentum build after the Democratic Convention by running with the "Swift Boat" story, even after they KNEW it was all completely false. Instead of debunking it as they should have, they put Kerry on the defensive, from which he never fully recovered in the minds of a great many people who may have considered him a viable alternative to Dubya otherwise.

FOX NEWS - Everyone is aware of their agenda, but rather than the rest of the press strongly admonishing them for their bias and calling them on their outright lies, several became imitators instead. Thank God for 'Air America' finally coming along to challenge them for their deceptiveness and misrepresentations (although with their late start and with the limited access to their broadcast their effect was minimized). As they grow I suspect they'll eventually become a force Fox will be have to answer to, but it's pretty sad that until they came along the only broadcasts to call them on their bullshit have been Comedy Central's "Daily Show" and HBO's "Real Time".

Nearly as much to blame as the media for the Fox spin are the Democrats and other "progressives" who let themselves be used by appearing on their programs. They should be completely boycotted. They will have no "debate" if they are made to only talk amongst themselves.

Not only that, but their sponsors should start being seriously pressured as well. If they want to advertise on Fox their products and services should be boycotted for supporting their garbage.


MSNBC - They have become 'Fox Light'. How much more transparent could they have been than when they "covered" the Democratic Convention and debates with nearly ALL republican operatives on their "panels". Nearly every report on Kerry contained a disclaimer at the end ripped straight off the pages of Roves "talking points".


CNN - Not a "respected" or "trusted" news source for years, but when they chose to keep that treasonous slimeball Novak employed on their network after he outed Valerie Plame, not much more need be said. Their "pundits" were absolutely shameless throughout the election.


CBS - Possibly the "fairest" of the networks, they committed such a major gaffe with the "forged document" scandal that it not only kept the "Swift Boat Liars" in the news for weeks but kept the entire Abu Ghraib debacle from barely even being mentioned for the rest of the election cycle.


NBC - Possibly my biggest beef with them (other than their parroting the Rove talking points daily) is with how "Meet the Press" covered the election. That punk Russert, after slamming Kerry and Edwards with non-issues time and again, showed such deference to the chimp it was nauseating.


Finally, I'd like to give special "credit" to all the rural and Evangelical voters, especially in all those "red" states, who voted en mass for the president-select. They've destined not only themselves to a bleak economic, sociological and environmental outlook with their stupidity, but dragged the rest of us down in the eyes of the rest of the world with them. With their strengthening of the republican grip on the congress and the guaranteed right-wing makeup of the supreme court for decades, our very liberty is in jeopardy now.