Our crack media is on the job, looking into the REALLY important shit this go-round.

[Stinky The Clown]

I feel lots better about our crack media. Nothing gets past them.

Obama's choice of lapel accessories will be fully investigated.

Remember how they dropped the ball back in 1999? Stories about a candidate's arrest record, drug use, boozing, blowing off his military obligations. We paid for that one.

But not this time. The media have learned. They now track down every little story and stay on it like Jimmy Olson at a warehouse fire. I'm so glad ......

You never know when some incurious, incompetent, petulant, entitled frat boy will run for president.

......... or have they? That Johnnyboy. He seems to be sliding on by. Ah well, they'll get to him just as soon as they finish with this Obama guy. After all, Obama hasn't yet quite, officially, sewn up the nomination. So that's a good reason to stay on his case. Just in case ..... I dunno ...... in case he farts or something. You know. Can't let anything pass. So to speak.

Hey ..... I just heard this rumor. A friend of my former brother-in-law's second cousin called him. He heard about this young girl ...........

Meanwhile, I have to go pay my monthly health insurance premium ...... $1900. But why worry about that? We're safe from unadorned lapels.

[Cresent City Kid]

1. It will get worse

We'll get questions like "Sen. Obama, are you a muslim? No? When did you stop being a muslim?"

[Kansas Wyatt]

5. The same people spreading the lie about him being muslim...

Are the same ones outraged that Obama didn't walk out on his minister at his Christian Church all these years.

Hey Freepturds, you can't have it both ways.... Either he is muslim or a radical Christian. Which story are you going to stick with? Do you Dumb Fucks realize how fucking stupid you are AND sound?

[morningglory]

2. Oh, thanks for posting this one! Head meet nail or whatever it is... n/t

[spanone]

3. a media with integrity is the real loss in america....news is no more than cartoons

[KharmaTrain]

4. Nothing Like More False Idols...

Wanna bet you ask most of these goons to write (not recite) the words of the Pledge or the Stars Spangled Banner...they'd flunk! Our flag has been subverted by the repugnicans and right wing as some sort of religious icon...an item of some kind of fanatic devotion that can be used in inoculate a repugnican from their corruption or moral depravity. Don't look at the left hand that's in your pocket, look at the right one waving the flag.

It'll be interesting if the corporate media keeps up this bullshit...and with it pisses away what's left of their credibility. They haven't realized that 2008 is a lot different than previous elections...millions are hurting and this country is a real mess. My hopes are the stenographers and the talking heads are proven wrong over and over again...and the corporate media becomes further estranged from the people it serves...and opens up new opportunities for the blogs and other sources of information.

[Cresent City Kid]

6. We've come, er sunk a long way

Remember when the gravitas of the news and the silliness of the Tonight Show were farther apart? The Daily Show gets deeper in a 4 minute book-plugging interview than a week's worth of network news coverage.

When 24 hour news started on cable I thought, "Wow, now we have a chance to get into issues that the 1/2 hour network news can't. Instead, they do laps around the shallow end of the pool 24/7.