Monday, March 26, 2007

Topsy-Turvy Media World of Whores

The way it works is this. When President Clinton says he does not agree with Bush's decision to go to war, the media reports that he fully supports Bush's decision.

When Senator Clinton makes a speech from the Senate floor opposing Bush's threat to go to war, the media reports that she favors going to war.

Eventually, some of you will figure it out.

Glenn Greenwald of Salon.com seems to have figured it out.
"These Beltway media figures are not only completely vapid, shallow, and devoid of any objective other than to defend government leaders, but they are completely out of touch with the "Americans" whom they constantly invoke as props in order to depict their own biases and beliefs as being shared by the American mainstream.

In virtually every instance over the last six years -- from realizing that the country was misled into the invasion of Iraq to realizing that administration claims of success there were false to opposing the pardon of Lewis Libby by a wide margin -- Americans end up realizing the truth long before the national press comes close to it.

While our media stars continue to defend the administration, Americans have come to realize on their own just how profoundly inept and corrupt this President is. The President's real "base" -- his most loyal followers -- are not red state Republicans, but instead, are Norah O'Donnell and Gloria Borger and the stable of media elite feeding at the Republican power trough, boundlessly worshipful of those who fill it, and eager to defend them at all costs."
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