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I mean, it's been crowded under here for awhile.
But throwing Dodd under the bus to protect Timmy Geithner????
That goes to judgment.
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Well, that's one well-sourced post by DDay! See also BDBlue's
link below to Glenn Greenwald's post on the Dodd scapegoating. Just like the Pelosis scapegoating, as BDB points out.
Then, ask yourself, how can they think they'll get away with lying so blatantly? Bcz they got away with it during the Dem primary? What's going on over in ObamaLand? I don't get it. I would be embarrassed for them except I'm so furious about what they're doing, so many things, so wrong, so badly.
Oh, and is Dodd too liberal on some issues? Wants to bring BushCo to account on those sticky constitutional issues? Wheels within wheels, turning, turning.
But our president needs to realize the MCM* will not give him, a Dem, the complete cover they gave to BushBoy. Not as much will be pushed down the Memory Hole, and they'll turn on the big powerful fans to blow away some of the fog surrounding some of the facts. But...I could be wrong, of course.
*MCM--Mainstream Corporate Media
I think this is what the MSM* wants
Seriously. Obama says he wants to end compensation, the news media reports it, ignoring the Dodd stuff so the country loves Obama. Oh, and guess what? Proggers are pushing the blame onto someone other than Obama. Being associated with Obama as proggers are means that the proggers have to be Obama apologists and history rewriters (this was always expected, you naive fool!) in order to save face. Seriously, how many of us expected Obama to be *this* far to the right on these issues? But this is what everyone should have expected even though we were lectured how he was 5-10% better. His whole damn campaign was about lefty change and progressive ate that shit up and mocked those who raised questions. *Now* we are told by some of these same progressives that its absurd to think Obama would be any better. We need to combat that dishonesty and those attempts to rewrite history.
* I don't find MCM useful anymore as a distinction. Obama's proggers are often hard to distinguish from the corporate media even though they aren't really part of the corporate power structure. In that sense, MSM is a more useful nomenclature as the non corporate proggers and commenters are aiding as much as the corporate folks in propagating the desired stream of consciousness.
I've been meaning to write the same
Footnote about MCM/MSM. Agreed.
Why not Village Media?
Plus VM has all sorts of useful connotations of virtuality, instead of reality, and so forth.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
Virtual Machine!
I love it!
Plus there's the nostalgia factor.
Policy not party!
If Obama keeps this up,
he's going to start butting more heads with people in Congress. I thought this TPM post about Congressman Brad Miller's criticism of Obama was very telling and signals trouble down the road:
As a member of the House Financial Services Committee, Rep. Brad Miller (D-NC) has had a front-row seat for the fireworks over the financial bailout -- and he's not convinced that the new administration has changed the Treasury Department.
"I want change I can believe in," he told me in an interview late yesterday. "I don't think I have change I can notice."
Miller's chagrin over Treasury's lack of responsiveness and transparency signals a distressing trend for the Obama administration. As the nation seethes with anger over lavish spending at bailed-out banks -- particularly AIG's $450 million in bonuses to the same executives who bankrupted the company -- a number of lawmakers from both parties are pointing out that Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's team could have clamped down on the excess earlier.
It's the MCM which still controls the broadcast and cable TV;
there are some small spaces allowed for left of center voices, but, for the most part, the MCM covers the news and amplifies that news that it wants the public to know about.
Jane Hamsher and Glenn Greenwald have done great work on this Dodd story; Jane has been on TV a few times, Glenn also, but their access is strictly controlled by the MCM. I'll also most people have no idea whatsoever as to who they are and what they write. I know I have to explain them to my friends who, whether they know it or not, are influenced by turning on the TV for a news update when they get home from work.
I do sttill see a difference between the MCM, along with its wannabees, and the Obama sycophants and less committed supporters in the blogosphere, but, hey, use the terms you feel best convey your ideas. I like that the Village
and Villagers concept is gaining traction, bcz it covers the inside the beltway attitude. Versailles
and courtiers covers the desire for access affects reporters no matter where they reside. However, few outside the blogs know of these terms, right?
MSM, on the other hand, has gone mainstream and is used by the MCMers themselves.
Mainstream, for me, suggests to the reader that, indeed, these media sources are the real center, without the corporate part affecting their output and editorial slants. The real thing, the news that can be trusted bcz its, well, mainstream. And the Villagers do love the center, -- as long as they can define it. Heh.
Got any links to Dodd from the so-called progressives?
Because I'm thinking that Hamsher, Greenwald, and Bowers aren't bad to have as people who get it...
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi