Reply #5: I'm sick of the way the media are covering this story. First of all, there would be no hearings

[NDP]

if the Republicans were still in charge because they are the ones who have been underfunding veterans' care for years! No one in the media are saying anything about that. It's just a bunch of crap about how "heart-wrenching the testimonials are." Oooh, ooh, the emotion. Ooh, ooh, so sad. Ooh, ooh.

What about whose to blame for this crap! God, I hate the media. They are supposed to be "informing," not trying to be a freaking soap opera.

They are doing all that they can not to blame the Republicans or the Bush administration for any of this. They are trying to act like the problem is "government," that the "Army medical system" is to blame, instead of the people who have been underfunding it for the past few years. After all, many of the people who favor a single-payer health care system often, wink, wink, cite the health care system for the military, so, wink, wink, "let's undercut that argument."

With the way they are covering this story. Bring up the VA at your own risk, from now on.

They want us all to focus on the "tearful testimonials."

No way. Focus on who's culpable. That's your freaking job, unless you didn't know.