Reply #20: The media has got to go.

[bluesbassman]

On any give day, you can read posts from folks talking about "this dem did this and needs to be put out of office", or "this dem did that and should not be in leadership", and those are valid issues that need to be addressed at the appropriate time. Now is not that time. Now is the time for all of us to focus our attention on the media issue. For as Sparkly so accurately illuminated here, there is an ongoing and calculated effort to confuse and misinform the American people. Granted, recent history has shown that the MSM has taken a lot af their marching orders from the White House and Rove, but in the end they are profit driven, and when they get the awareness that their fortunes are tied to a sinking ship they may just change course. What does that mean? Well it means that we need to spend our energy challenging these types of deliberate information obfuscation. Instead of ranting about how pissed we are that so and so voted for such and such and is not a "real progressive", we need to focus on throwing these types of issue manipulation back at the media sources who put it out. What good is preaching to the choir about how lame some Dem is when that's all we have right now? What good is to call for new leadership when the only way we'll be able to do that is by undoing the stranglehold that the GOP has on government right now. The only way we'll be able to undo that stranglehold is to make sure that the very real issues of criminal activity by the administration is accurately and continuously put out to average Americans.

Sorry if I stepped on any toes. Believe me, I'm not happy with a lot of what my Dems have been doing either. But again, they are all we have to work with right now and we can not afford to lose this time.