I had the same idea and I hope others here follow. For those who would like to:
http://dailynightly.msnbc.com/I don't know if they'll run my post but this is what I submitted:
Brian, a week ago I still thought the world was finally coming to its senses because you and NBC were telling the public some truth about what has been going on. I thought you were one of the great journalists of all time. Then I saw your interview with Bush, and the way you described the interview.
Then, I knew that you were no better than any of the other mouth pieces for the right wing that are on the other channels, and perhaps worse. Then, I saw you on Hardball tonight going on about how Bush doesn't live in a bubble. I'll examine that idea later in the post but my opinion of you dropped even more. Brian is a tool of RW propagandists, I thought. Then, I heard on the radio that you were going on Sean Hannity. That's a show full of Fascist lies. Now, Brian, you completely disgust me. I knew I should have never looked the other way when you pretended, "We didn't do our jobs because of 9/11."
Let's take a look at this "not in a bubble" nonsense. Because the media does not question Bush at all, his handlers are able to float two completely opposite stories. One is that Bush is firmly in control. That story appears when somebody asks why nobody is worried that our nation is being run by a kook. The other story, which comes up whenever it seems impossible that Bush wasn't aware of something, is that the president is out of the loop.
Take, for example, the Niger uranium lie. Everybody at the CIA thought the story was a joke. Bush's speech writers were well aware that the Niger uranium connection was bogus. Why didn't Bush know that there was no Iraqi attempt to buy uranium from Niger? He was out of the loop, of course!
Its not just that one little piece of prewar intelligence. We watched here from the net, where people follow the news more closely, press accounts that often came up (I could supply you with a long list) that called into question the WMD intelligence. We are to believe that somehow, none of these ever reached Bush, who had no idea he might be following flawed intelligence.
In addition to the press accounts, we have also been led to believe Bush was tricked by Dick Cheney or somebody about the WMD. Before the war, Colin Powell and Dick Cheney fought for days at the CIA over the glaring flaws in the WMD intelligence. The State Department found 36 items offered for Powell's speech that couldn't be supported. Cheney's office pressured Powell to put items back in the speech. Powell's speech was the focus of the entire White House agenda that week. Are we to believe that Bush knew that Powell was being pressured to give unreliable intelligence as fact and Bush did nothing? Or, are we to believe that a huge fight over the top priority was going on between the Vice President and the Secretary of State over the truthfulness of the entire case for war and Bush was totally unaware this was happening?
I wish you had asked him about that, Brian. Was it a bubble or not back in 2003? Instead, Brian, you sold yourself out and even went into the sty of Sean Hannity.
I don't want to hear anymore of your act about being a hero of New Orleans. Somebody back then, when the topic was hot, said that hurricane victims would get $200 billion. Who said that back then? What was it based on? What happened to it?
Why was it that while Brian was on TV showing thousands of stranded people screaming for help, Bush was on TV telling us about all the help that was arriving for hurricane victims? If Bush had any idea what was going on, why did he give such an upbeat press conference? You could have asked him about that, Brian.
When it came down to it, Brian, you let that all slip so you could run off with gleeful announcements about Bush "not in a bubble."
To top it all off, NBC reported as news a right wing persecution fantasy about people taking away Christmas. NBC's report was missing a key fact. Who ever said you couldn't say Merry Christmas? Who told stores they couldn't use the phrase? NOBODY EVER DID, Brian. RWs make up stuff like that for Faux News.
Its obvious to anybody out here on the net, that NBC has gone fishing for RW viewers. Its a shame Brian, because ratings were picking up for NBC. Now people will see NBC News as trash.
While all this is going down, Brian, you may think you can ride the gravy train if you just play along. You are mistaken. We on the Internet left have taken down Judith Miller, Viveca Novak, and some homosexual prostitute/presstitute named Guckert. We'll get you too, Brian. Just watch.
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