thoughts on Saturday

Because of the lively conversation this morning. I made a list...

List of observations:

1. The conversation, even when it gets ugly, is important. So far at least, I'd rather have a smaller audience than an echo chamber.

2. Dissent matters. Even when it confronts things I (or readers here) hold to be true.

3. Resentment is sometimes a place to start. It is not a place to stay. Processes here vary. I, for one, felt the movement called "Puma" - born of deep anger and resentment - should have evolved quickly into a third party concerned with many issues. In my thinking, an opportunity was lost because that resentment did not morph into a third way. The difficulties of a third party in the U.S. became an excuse to not try. I hold fast to the belief that we need a third way as badly as we ever have in this country. Both the corruption of the Democrats and the GOP impulse toward viciousness and stupidity prove this point. The clock is very much ticking on our "way of life" - we need another way.

(I sometimes process my resentments with outright mockery and humor. Sometimes with nostalgia, sometimes fury.)

4. Learning from the past is important -as long as one stays in the present while learning.

5. Forcing those who got lost in the Obama muck last year to see and hear how wrong they were is part of the process of owning and growing into the next place. This task needs to last as long as it needs to last. When a banner across the Huffington Post and the DailyKos announces WE WERE WRONG ABOUT OBAMA, then it might be time to move on. It would be dishonest for me to say that I did not take some joy in just how wrong the Pod people were. I do. My claims to sainthood are a few incarnations away.

Cannonfire put it succinctly yesterday: I wish to hell that these people would just be honest about what they did. I wish that they would 'fess up to the role they played in foisting this nightmarish presidency on the world. I wish to hell that they would apologize.

Given the level of lies, delusion and deceit around Obama I feel it is nearly an obligation to confront those responsible for foisting this nightmarish presidency on the world.

HOWEVER: If resentment regresses into a sniping victimhood then it is mostly useless.

There is some movement among the worst of the "Obots". A realization with some that they have been had. This is progress. Pressing this point is important for a number of reasons:

-Saving liberals from themselves is a decent, if not exactly noble, cause.

-Obama was and remains a symptom of a larger disease that grew out of the Bush era. The trickery is palpable and needs to be pointed out to the tricked. To ignore this is to assume that the democratic systems are working. One side loses, one wins - that's it. But they are not working. We shall get fooled, yet again, if we do not remember the machinations of the dysfunction.

Though we've seen it all before, there was a quantum leap in the body politic in the level of denial around Obama. It took the full force of the media, an economic collapse, a generalized revulsion toward the incumbent, and many of the biggest loudest blogs to get the man to 52%. As with 2000 - what we have here is evidence that the system itself is broken. The media's capitulation to Obama - and to the pro Iraq invasion meme in '03 - are important and similar indicators. We do not live in the country we are told we live in. Standing against the "manufacturing of consent" is one thing a blog can do and do well.

6. I stated that this was a "grievance" blog. This was:

A. claiming ownership of a word used by a blogger who called all Hillary blogs "grievance blogs".(I should have been clear about that.)

B. An admission that nearly all political blogs are grievance blogs. From Kos to Texas Darlin. Americablog took off because of grievances against Bush era policies. Posts at Cannonfire, Noquarter, and anywhere else one cares to alight are almost always in response to grievances of one sort or another. "Beefs" if you like. RCP is a compendium of writers with grievances. Blogs in the realm of political opinion and political writing are all grievance blogs. Having a grievance in and of itself is not a problem. Making the grievance one's identity is.

7. For the most part the best a political blog can do it point in a direction, give an opinion, make us chuckle, or uncover some facts that may have been missed or underreported. I think this is important: Blogs are blogs. Nothing more, nothing less. The obligation to "report" is a fallacy about blogs that is best avoided. I avoid it by writing opinion almost all the time.

That's it. Onward!

More Media Types Admit to pro Obama Circle Jerk

Since we knew the media's pro Obama bias was overwhelming and since we knew the media would admit they went to far AFTER the fact...
(This is their pattern and their plan. Admitting that they went to far after the election is over, or the invasion has begun, or the impeachment has occurred, is the last part of the game - in this way they attempt to absolve themselves, and restore some credibility, while hoping we forget the pattern in time for the next propaganda push.)
...I am not sure why stuff like what is linked below makes me so furious. It's not like I did not see this round of media confession coming. Usually, I love being proven right. But I'm sick of being one of the damn confessors for these jackasses. We are forced to watch them behave like frothy tin foil hat nuts for a season and THEN we are forced to hear their round of confession.

I, for one, DO NOT FORGIVE the media's sins.

Halperin even goes so far as to compare the Obama asskissing in 2008, to the pro Iraq invasion propaganda the media overwhelmed us with in 02 and 03.

Duh.

How many times will the media get away with this pattern?
A. Take up a cause.
B. Browbeat us with their "cause" while insisting they are balanced.
C. Admit after the fact that they "were out of line" during the selling/forcing of their cause.
D. Make no effort to change, learn, grow. Merely hope we forget or do not care the next time they sell us on the unsellable.

"It's the most disgusting failure of people in our business since the Iraq war," Halperin said at a panel of media analysts. "It was extreme bias, extreme pro-Obama coverage."


Ya THINK????









And some music because I feel like it:
MY WAY

The Hologram Named Obama - with update: The theme song for the coming Obama years

It is not that Obama's B.S. did not matter to people - IT IS THAT PEOPLE DID NOT KNOW WTF or WHO THE "F" THEY WERE VOTING FOR. The propaganda machine that goes by these names:
CNN
CBS
MSNBC
NBC
ABC
New York Times
Washingtonpost
Americablog
Dailykos
Huffingtonpost
sold us a fable called Barrack Obama just as surely as many of them sold us the invasion of Iraq.


From a post election Zogby poll:
Obama voters did not fare nearly as well overall when asked to answer questions about statements or stories associated with Obama or Biden - 83% failed to correctly answer that Obama had won his first election by getting all of his opponents removed from the ballot, and 88% did not correctly associate Obama with his statement that his energy policies would likely bankrupt the coal industry. Most (56%) were also not able to correctly answer that Obama started his political career at the home of two former members of the Weather Underground.

The American Media created this hologram called Obama by lying to us by commission and omission.

PUMAs were right, are right, and will continue to be right.

Despite the election result - I wonder if Obama will even be considered legitimate in 6 months.
We've never been lied to with as much impunity as we were in 2008.

Tuesday's music choice:

There is a moment you know you're...

Khalidi question

Rashid Khalidi is a good friend of the Obamas. Mr. Khalidi is PLO apologist who has given vocal support to suicide bombers. He was a PLO spokesman when it was a U.S. designated terror group. Take those facts alone. Now imagine if McCain or Clinton were good friends with Khalidi. What would MSNBC, Huffington, and the rest be doing with this information??
Featuring clips of Leon Klinghoffer, the wheelchair bound Jew shot and dumped into the sea aboard the Achille Largo by members of the P.L.O. - that's what.

This gets to my primary beef with the media and this campaign. Obama gets a pass on everything. EVERYTHING. How ever one comes down on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict - would the American media give a pass to any other candidate regarding this friendship? No, of course not.

Why does Obama get the all purpose pass on all his questionable connections? Please read that question as a question - not a complaint. I want to know why. Can it be as simple as "they like him"? I don't buy it. There is a reason for Obama's elevation at the cost of truth. What is it?

Ayres oversaw the maiming of American citizens.
Rezko took government cash while slum dwellers, in slums he owned, froze.
Khalidi supported the murder of innocents.

Any rational person questions the judgement of Obama. And yet the media does not. My hometown paper the Los Angeles Times is the latest example of blatantly covering up information that the public needs to know if it is to make an informed decision.

WHY?