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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
El Tiburon.
Published Letters: 60
If they don't have a category for bloggers, Glenn may force them into to doing it.
I don't know if I've ever encountered someone who can break a topic down with such presicision, logic and just a touch of sarcastic wit.
A bit off topic, but whenever Glenn turns his laser-pointer onto some right-winger and I have their e-mail, I write them with the subject line: You've been Greenwalled!
Thank God Glenn is on the Good Side. Thanks Glenn, waiting eagerly for your second book.
No doubt a solid program. For most of us here in RealityLand it was nothing new. But if it gets a debate going...wait, who is going to debate this program in the Corporate Media?
I doubt Chris Matthews or Tim Russert will devote any time to Moyers. O'Reilly already attacked it then had to do a mini-retraction.
Fortunately, most polls indicate that most Americans are no longer under the spell of the MSM. It is only the pundits that are delusional. Of course, they would have to admit they were completely and totally wrong about EVERYTHING. They just hope it all goes away.
SCHEDULING NOTE: Next Friday Moyers will entertain Jon Stewart (who he calls this generations Mark Twain) and Josh Marshall from TPM.
I am by no means a Deep-thinker, but would it be wrong to say we are entering a new phase in our nation's political and social construct, a "Neo-Enlightment"?
The internet is washing away 40 years of conservative propaganda and I believe the masses are beginning to see the light.
We no longer have to conform to corporate interests of ABC/CBS/NBC,New York Times, etc.
We now have Greenwald, Eschaton, DailyKos, Digby, the list is simply endless, to seek out the truth and deilver it. And it is a self-feeding, self-realizing symbiotic relationship that blasts knowledge and insight out at lightspeed.
This is, in pragmatic, street-level terms, what DCLaw1 was talking about in the excerpted passage.
Not to get all touchy-feely, but I too have felt it coming. The Bush/Neocon Regime is in free-fall (when they perhaps are most dangerous)and I sense the rest of the country is awakening to their true insiduous nature.
So, is Neo-Enlightment a proper phrase?
No doubt many influential bloggers do not reveal their identities for various reasons. But their work, for all the public to see and evaluate, is their true measure.
Glenn has worked with Anonymous Liberal* in the past. Now, I don't know if AI is "out" or not, but it doesn't matter. The views expressed by the "out" Glenn and the "in" AI don't require that we know their true identity. They are not using some secret information they obtained surreptiously, but they are utilizing newspaper accounts, etc. to analyze and break-down the malfeasance of this administration and others.
Neither Glenn nor AI (and all the others) are acting as a modern-day Deep Throat or whistle blower. Their identities are irrelevant.
*I don't really know if AI is anonymous, just using him as reference point.
that breaks the camel's back.
Another home run.
Thank you Glenn (and others)
Nothing has changed. It's the same as it always was.
Klein is still an idiot.
A good percentage of Democrats in Congress are worthless shills.
More War. More Bush. More Bullshit.
Got it now.
The Republican presidential contenders are going to begin to devour each other, i.e. McCain vs. Romney.
Forget the media. They will be of no help.
Yes, Republicans are slowly starting to shift the Iraq war to the Democrats and of course the media will aid and abet.
Many democrats in Congress are less than zero.
But I firmly believe (hope) that a majority of the American people understand what Bush and the Republicans have wrought since 2001 on this country. Conservatism and the Republican party are dying.
Barring any extreme election-fraud attempts, all of this posturing and revisionism is only fodder for the dwindling Republican base.
A democrat will win the White House and Democrats will increase their power in Congress. Of course this doesn't guarantee any true progressive/liberal policies will come to bear.
These Royal Elites are running scared. They see us peons, led by influential bloggers, as nothing more than crazed dirt farmers attacking their Paper Castles with torches and pitchforks.
They simply can't understand why we are (according to them) frothing like rabid dogs while they clink champagne glasses and plan retreats to the Hamptons or elsewhere to watch the aspens turn.
In a few years Cohen, Klein, Hiatt and the rest of the Court Jesters will be intersting relics for study and ridicule.
The future IS the blogosphere. The Future is Greenwald and Kos and Eschaton and Media Matters.
These Grand Shriveled Old Men are cornered rats and they know it.
It's time to face it: the MSM, especially television, is dying as sources of political news. Witness Larry King cancelling Michael Moore for Paris Hilton.
The debate is when blogs will overtake the traditional media causing the Bloated Talking Heads to lose their ad revenue, and thusly their jobs.
Newspapers are losing circulation. I cancelled my subscription years agon and get all of my current event news from blogs. I subscribe to most liberal magazines, but for day-to-day news I trust only one source: the blogs.
Especially when you factor in the younger generations who virtually live on myspace, etc., the death of the MSM is inevitable.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
