These corporations employs thousands of people. Isn't it weird that none of them -- not a single one - -has ever revealed the Great Corporate Plot whereby corporate heads tell the pundits and reporters what to say? You would think at least one of them would spill the beans on the conspiracy.

-- GlennGreenwald

That is because there is no conspiracy, per se. I read a book in the 1980's, (I'm sorry I do not remember the name of the book or the author) written by an African American female. She catalogued the various ways people like her, ie free thinking, aggressive, independent journalists, were pushed out by corporate media outlets (I think she worked for ABC) in favor of brown nosing corporate careerists who were predisposed to toe the company line just to get ahead.

If this is actually the case, and I have no reason to doubt it given the abundant evidence apparent in the kind of "news" we get, plus a rudimentary understanding of how one gets ahead in the corporate world, there is no need for a conspiracy, at least among the reporters themselves. Such corporate shills are clueless in more ways than one. They are the bottom of the barrel, scum of the crop, pushed ahead at the expense of real journalists. These people actually think they represent the best of the best because of their easy glide up the corporate ladder, which explains the incredible arrogance on constant display. How many times have we heard one of them say or imply, in one form or another, something like "But you can trust me, why would I lie, I am a serious journalist, I work for WaPo, or NYT, or or.." while writing or spouting some fact-free piece which just happens to track exactly with admin or corporate lies?

The conspiracy began at the very top to form a confederacy of dunces. The rest took care of itself.

and my tweaking in bold. Sorry if these have been suggested already, I haven't had time to read all comments.

A Hard Man is Good to Find

Sexual overtones in the search for a tough Republican leader

-- Jim White

A Hard Man is Good to Find

How the Right exploits sexual insecurities in their search for a leader

Macho Macho Man: The Politics of Masculinity

and then have a photoshopped picture of the Village People with the faces of right-wing figures.

-- victorycabal

Macho Macho Man: The Politics of Mythical Masculinity(or "Of Myth and Masculinity")

(like the imagery)

The Right-Wing Package: Manufacturing the Warrior Myth

The Right-Wing Package: Fake warriors and the liars who love them

The Strong Leader’s Package: The Infinite Gap between Myth and Reality

The Faux Package: Masculinity, Myth, and Reality in Right-Wing Discourse

(both too good to change)

-- Presumptuous Insect

The Manliness Mystique: An Investigation into the Conservative Male's Sense of Inadequacy

-- lknlkn

The Masculine Mystique:Why Conservative men are afraid of women and gays

Warriors and Weaklings: Pretense and Paranoia in the Right Wing--poli-psych

Warriors and Weaklings: Pretense and Projection from the Right

The New Militarism: Wannabe Warriors and the Media That Enable Them

-- Propagandee

The New Militarism: How Conservative men have subverted the ideals of manhood

"Little Boy Soldiers"

-- orbitboy

Toy Soldiers: Conservative Men who love war and hate fighting them

The Masculinity Cult: How the personal become political

Susan of Texas

The Cult Of Masculinity: How the sexual became the political

Some of my own:

Failing the Test: How Conservatives men DO NOT Live up to their own ideals of what it is to be a man.

Forging a Myth: Real Men-and the Right-Wing

The Killing Machine: How the Right-wing and their Media enablers bully men into making war.

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is coming out in the next couple of weeks. Both leads are played by American actors-Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck.

I saw Yuma in preview last Sunday. GREAT film, tons of fun. The perfs are ALL outstanding. I expected it of Crowe and Bale, but every one of the supporting players steps up to the plate. Don't miss this movie, you won't regret it.

We are united, Freddy Thompson- in rejection of this war, the lies the media employs to prop it up, and our opinion of your stupidity. (ok, I made that last bit up, but give it time)

The last thing the putrid, inbred Beltway trolls can allow to happen is for Americans to wake up to the power implied by that unity. Thus, the constant overturning of reality.

That is all.

A tiny minority are passionate progressives, who mostly try to do the right thing.

A substantial portion are conservatives, as evidenced by the Blue, or Bush, Dogs. They openly and enthusiastically support Bush policies.

In the leadership, we have Establishment types, who not only go along to get along, they go along because they want to, all the while trying to appear progressive, mouthing platitudes at the base while deceitfully planning to stab them in the back.

The rest are frightened, greedy idiots afraid of their own shadows, who do what they are told in order to keep their seats.

Blue Dogs, Establishment, and greedy idiots combine to betray the base and the country every chance they get.

Podhoretz was one of the signatories on the 2002 PNAC letter to President Bush which declared that "No one should doubt that the United States and Israel share a common enemy" and -- listing Iraq, Iran and Syria, among others -- argued that "Israel is fighting the same war." Podhoretz currently "prays" that the U.S. bomb Iran.

Since they thought it was such a wonderful idea, if Israel has any troops in Iraq?

If not, why not?