Little
Timmy Russert, Tweetie Bird Chris Matthews and that imperious fool Keith Olber-Nazi were at it again last night, making the news rather than
reporting the news on the Obama Network, MSNBC aka the Mysogynist
Silly Network Boy’s Club. It was a sight to behold.
With a
supporting cast of characters including David “I Used to Be a Real
Journalist,” Gregory; Rachael Maddow (does anyone think she looks like
Drew Barrymore in reverse Drag?); a visit by the “I never met a powerful
women I won’t destroy” Andrea Bitch-ell Mitchell; the “everything you
say against my candidate Barack Obama is because you are a racist and
if you are white you are a racist,” Eugene Robinson; and the one saving
grace of the evening if you are willing to overlook his past record of
bigotry because he really does see truth these days, and expresses it
with a wonderful smile, a joyful laugh and a Santa Claus mirthful eyes,
Pat Buchanan; I felt as if I was watching a silly television
sitcom set in a newsroom like that portrayed in WKRP in Cincinnati.
The
combined egos of this bunch of wayward pontificators are astounding.
Everyone has the answer, their truth is the only truth, and collectively
they have more hate for Hillary and Bill Clinton than the entire State
of Kentucky apparently has for Barack Obama’s candidacy, a state, by the
way, which Hillary Clinton won HUGE last night, although you wouldn’t
know it, because again, these fools were too busy eviscerating the
Clintons and anointing the Democrack-up Party’s presumptive nominee,
Barack Obama.
What a
bloviating bunch of bellicose buckaroos.
“Look
guys,” Pat Buchanan tried to insert some reality into the discussion,
“this guy’s got a REAL problem with those white folks down there and
it’s not going away.”
Little
Timmy who too often sounds like the character that the late Ted Knight
played on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, a pompous idiot, and is a
journalist-NOT, and who declared Barack Obama the party’s nominee after
Obama lost Indiana by 3 when his own campaign predicted he would win it
by 12, cast a fierce look of utter disdain at Buchanan. You could almost
read the subtext,” How dare you talk truth and maybe inflict damage on
my candidate!”
Buchanan
offered his healing chuckle and continued his struggle to be heard over
the bossy voices of Obama’s blowhards, but he was wasting his smile and
his breath. No one on the set of MSNBC could care less about
anything other than making sure that their candidate becomes the
Democratic Party’s nominee.
Yet, while I make light of the silliness of these talking
heads that long ago stopped being journalists when they became Obama
fans, what is going on at MSNBC and its parent company NBC
isn’t a laughing matter. It is serious business when in a
Democracy the Fourth Estate loses its objectivity, when the media
becomes the message to play on Marshall McLuhan’s “the medium is the
message” so brilliantly coined in
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man,
published in 1964.
Of course,
it’s not just MSNBC/NBC that has taken this new approach to
journalism. Fox News has been called “The Bush Network” and
CNN, “The Clinton Network.” Clearly the lines between journalism and
commentary have been blurred with the introduction of online news
outlets and the independent blogosphere (including me).
Last week
I wrote about a New York Times story recounting Hillary Clinton’s
rally in Shepherdstown, W. Va, written by John M. Broder. I happened to
have been at that rally and what was reported in the story had no
reality to what Broder wrote in his New York Times piece the
following day. I wrote a letter, telephoned, and e-mailed the NY
Times and the paper ignored my complaint.
If you
subscribe to the belief that these cable news shows are actually
entertainment, then maybe you don’t have a problem with what is going on
here. But when Tim Russert within minutes is reporting on MSNBC
and then sitting next to Brian Williams on the nightly NBC
newscast, then a blur has occurred between commentary and fact.
It becomes
a problem of inserting a skewed perception. Just take a look at how this
works. Despite Clinton’s 35-point win in a state her husband carried
twice, the lead in most of the papers today is Obama's declaration of
securing a majority of pledged delegates. The New York Times’
headline: “Obama Declares Bid ‘Within Reach’ After 2 Primaries.” The
Washington Post: “Obama Takes Delegate Majority.” It's the story of
the Clinton campaign since March 4. Despite basically running even or
slightly ahead of Obama in the primaries held since March 4, she can't
change the trajectory of the race. Why?
The media
isn’t reporting the facts. The media is presenting the news to fit their
views. And this is what occurred first in the 2000 Bush-Gore race and
then in the 2004 Bush Kerry cycle.
If you
don’t think this media bias is an issue that needs to be addressed, just
look at where this country is today. Think about where it might be
tomorrow if the American people continue to sit back and allow
caricatures of news people like Little Timmy, Tweetie Bird Matthews,
Andrea Bitch-ell and the like decide for us who our next president is
going to be.