Comments on: Pity Party

By: larry d.

larry d. — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:55:52 +0000

Jimmy Carter, Dennis Kucinich, Hollywood actors, this blog, etc., etc., have done far more to demonize the word liberal than Fox News or Boss Limbaugh could ever dream of, Reverend.

By: The Reverend

The Reverend — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:46:25 +0000

Main media are for-profit operations. While some "journalists" may be progressive, though not many are, the corporations who hire them are not. Corporations whose stock is traded on Wall Street and whose CEO's play inflate-the-balloon for personal stock option purposes, desire lower taxes on the more affluent and a hands-off-their-business government. That is a conservative, Republican viewpoint.

The result of 20 years of Limbaugh and over 10 of Faux News is the demonization of the word liberal. Reporters and anchor-heads now fear being called liberal, or favoring liberal points of view….and so they go out of their way to give ample coverage, over-ample, to conservatives and Republicans. No matter how insanely crazy any of these wingnut slogans have become, that so-called liberal media has taken them seriously……all so they won't be accused of favoring those dreaded liberals.

If one cannot recognize this, one isn't paying very close attention.

By: Da King

Da King — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:11:57 +0000

Rev lives in his own fantasy world, steve.

The only news trucks I saw at the D.C. Tea Party rally were Fox News and CNN.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:01:17 +0000

The main media leans to the right….has for a long time. ????????

Now I know you've lost it. What is the main media? If you mean NBC, ABC,CBS and most of the east coast newspapers your way off base on that comment. If it is cable news it is pretty much 60/40 (left/right) by channels but 10/90 by ratings. I guess it is just how you want to look at things.

By: The Reverend

The Reverend — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:47:55 +0000

angry….the Washington Post covered the Teabaggers on it's front page. The anti-war rally of 2002……a much, much bigger event….was overed by the Post on page A-19.

The main media leans to the right….has for a long time.

By: The Reverend

The Reverend — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:02:21 +0000

I've been to religious revivals in my time, King. I know it must be difficult to separate the emotionally charged comradery you experienced with reality.

What America is going through has happened before when a GOP president left office. Republican leaders run up huge national deficits handcuffing incoming Democrats. They've done this my entire lifetime. Democrats believe in governance and so they'll eventually fix the GOP f-ups…but to take the conservative sore losers as a serious bunch….as a group that has credibility, is taking it too far.

The afterglow wll wear off and then you'll see things more clearly.

By: Da King

Da King — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:29:00 +0000

You're wrong, Rev. You don't know what the Tea Party rally was about, because you weren't there. You're simply regurgitating MSNBC talking points. Nice propaganda, but propaganda is all it is.

If you can't engage your independent brain cells enough to figure out what the Tea Party rallies are about when the country is $12 trillion in debt, with Obama on scale to add $9 trillion more, with government growing at an unprecedented rate, with all the big companies being bailed out as the little guys lose their jobs, with the government invading all sorts of private sectors that were previously out of bounds, with the Dems proposing a slew of anti-business legislation and tax increases in a depressed economy, with the government wanting to takeover health care, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc……..

Then I just feel sorry for you. You are facilitating the destruction of your own country.

By: angry conserv

angry conserv — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:44:12 +0000

Since the mainstream press has chosesn to ingnore the insignificant gathering of a few white malcontents it is good to know that I can count on the expert to fill in the blanks. Now I know how many people attended(not that is mattered), why they attended, and what rock they crawled out from under. Another masterful analysis by the Rev.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:18:50 +0000

Hmmmm, kind of reminds me of the million man march, or the half million man march, or the 10% of a million man march, well you get the idea.

I personally am for the concept of health care for all but on the other hand I agree with Pyroclastic Flow and think we should "promote self-advancement ". It is sort of like the abortion debate, that is being pro-choice but anti-abortion. I guess I'll figure it out someday.

As to whether or not this is a pity party as you say, or real outrage, we will know more at mid-term elections. Repugs v. demoncrats, now that is real choice.

By: The Reverend

The Reverend — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:58:18 +0000

America holds national elections every 2 years. That's how Americans run their government…through representatives.

Americans have chosen Democrats over Republicans in the last 2 cycles.

The Tea Partiers turned 9-12'ers represent the losing side of that equation. Instead of coming up with new policies…new ideas….to solve modern American problems, 9-12'ers want to take the country backwards, embracing the same old failed conservative policies for which the Republicans were tossed out of power.

The faux-movement calling itslf the 9-12'ers, or the Tea Partiers, or whatever, are simply protesting the fact that their candidates lost.

Conservatives are still in denial. 9-12'ers don't have any idea what they're even protesting about, and that's why the signs they carried were basically incoherent….they just know they don't like losing.

Get some new ideas and some new candidates.