American Corporate Media CLEARING THE DECKS for the Right Wing Propaganda Pimps to ATTACK!

[Vinnie From Indy]

The great Robert Parry of consortiumnews.com has penned another great column exposing the mainstream, corporate media's blatant attempt to toss down the memory hole all of Bush's responsibility for America's current state of affairs. I think the most important part of the story concerns Rush Limbaugh and the right wing media. It appears that the plan for the right wing is to unleash the dogs of lies and rewrite history while attacking Obama mercilessly. All Democrats need to understand that the same media that has given us the Iraq War etc. etc. etc. has not ceasd to exist and they are still working hard in the service of the BushCo crowd.

"Yet what is remarkable about American news coverage of this extraordinary moment – and Bush’s strangely light-hearted comment at the end of the Nov. 15 global economic summit – is how little blame is being laid specifically at Bush’s door.

In a pattern typical of the preceding eight years, major U.S. journalists are focusing on almost everything else – from Sarah Palin’s political future to what President-elect Barack Obama should do after he’s inaugurated in two months – not the lessons that should be learned from Bush’s disastrous presidency.

An example was Tom Brokaw’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, which addressed the financial and energy crises with nary a negative word spoken about Bush. It was as if everyone else was responsible for the nation’s troubles, from unions and auto executives to Congress and Obama (for not providing immediate answers). Just not the person who is still in charge and who was chiefly responsible for taking the United States from an era of peace, prosperity and budget surpluses to the precipice of endless war, economic devastation and national bankruptcy...

...By averting their eyes from Bush and focusing so much on Obama now, the mainstream U.S. news media also clears space for right-wing media voices like Rush Limbaugh to begin writing another false narrative, blaming the financial collapse on the incoming President not on the one who has held the office the past eight years."

The rest of the story here:

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/18717

[mrreowwr_kittty]

1. k and r. nt

[Lasher]

2. Predictable.

But sooner or later any thinking person would have to wonder what happened to the prosperity that was supposed to accompany all those tax cuts for rich people.

[liberal N proud]

3. They are doing their jobs as right wing minions

It's not whether you win or lose,
But how you place the blame.

[blm]

4. Exactly what they did in 93-98 to bury reporting on outstanding matters in IranContra and BCCI

that should have seen Bush and his cronies hailed by the mid90s, not continuing their illegal operations and planning their return to WH.

Hopefully Obama's team will follow through on the accountability for the American people, and, further, that he won't be taken in by the thugs the way Poppy was able to manipulate Clinton in the 90s.

[MadMaddie]

5. That's why when the new Administration gets in the new FCC

head will be critical. They will have to break up the monopolies to ensure competition.

[liberalla]

6. You are SO right. I truly hope we can reclaim a good measure of

fairness and equity - starting at the top.

[blm]

8. That is an absolutely CRUCIAL point. Thanks for making it.

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[liberalla]

7. Tom Brokaw makes me ill... he's one of the worst

:puke:

Do you think Obama has a plan in how to handle this barrage? He's handled almost everything perfectly in the campaign, and nothing 'stuck' too badly. I hope the PEOPLE reject this crap, and it becomes obvious to EVERYONE what the RWers are doing. There's something different about President Elect Obama. He's been so smart and one step ahead --- I hope it continues.