For those that watch Countdown with Keith Olbermann, you will know that Rachel Maddow is getting her own show. She'll be replacing Dan Abrams at 9 pm Eastern in September. Now for those that have listened to Rachel on her air america show, she is great in exposing how the right-wing lie machine operates. Exposing how they play the media to get their messages out. But watch her when she's on Countdown, she's definetly tempers her criticisms of the MSM. So while I look forward to her new show, I just wonder how critical she will be in her treatment of the MSM. Will she bite the hand that feeds her?

One last thing, I was watching Olbermann last night when he was announcing Rachel getting her new show. He actually said something I know to be a lie. He said that the reason Phil Donahue's MSNBC show was cancelled was because he had a live audience. Live audiences are very expensive and that was the reason he got the axe, according to Olbermann. As most people know, the reason was because Phil Donahue was critical of the case for war and executives didn't want to be perceived as the "anti-war" network. Anyone else catch that last night? While I respect Olbermann, it's clear he isn't going to tell any embarassing truths about MSNBC either.

What's clear to me is that the most important reform needed in America, is MEDIA DECONSILIDATION. We need to break up these giant media companies. Go back to the days when a company was only allowed to own one tv station in a market. Not like we have now, where the same company can own tv stations, newspapers and radio stations all in the same market. Time to break up TimeWarner, Viacom, GE, News Corp, Disney and Sony. They are all media monopolies. They have too much influence, and are too limiting in the amount of opinions they allow to be voiced. If Obama is elected, his first priority needs to be breaking up Big Media. Our democracy literally depends on it.

Obama is simply repeating the mistakes of the past. He's allowing McCain to attack him without responding. Or when he does respond, it's pretty lame. He's not going to go on the attack against McCain, because that would be negative. He's vowed to run a clean campaign. Just like Kerry and Gore before him, see how successful that tactic was. The republicans know negative campaigning WINS. You can't be clean when your opponent is in the gutter. Since he won't attack, he's always being attacked. So he's constantly on defense and can't get his message out. Bill Maher's right that Obama did what all the dem nominees have done, RUN TO THE CENTER. Don't let anyone know you might have any crazy leftie ideas, you wouldn't want to scare anyone. Running to the center sure worked wonders for Kerry and Gore. So of course Obama is going to repeat the pattern. That's what the tv pundits say a dem has to do to win, move to the center. The tv pundits always have the democrats best interest at heart, so never ignore them. In 4 years when we have a new nominee to run against President McCain, I'll bet they'll repeat the pattern that Obama, Kerry, and Gore did. I'm sure they'll have about as much success with it as their predecessors.

You know you are in trouble, when even Moby says you need to start fighting. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/moby/dear-senator-obama-fight_b_117715.html When a buddhist tells you to start hitting back Obama, maybe you should listen. As for saying don't question my patriotism thing, you think McCain is going heed your advice Obama? You sound like a whiny bitch saying, stop saying mean things about me. IT'S FREAKING PATHETIC. Obama needs to start hitting back and hitting back hard. If the MSM says you are abandoning your pledge to run a clean campaign, point out they didn't have a problem with McCain abandoning his pledge. Then tell them where they can stick their hypocrisy.

Nick you are right on man. The reason the 60's was the most turbulent period in recent history. Is because for the first time large number of Americans got involved in the political process. This was a direct threat to the power of the "establishment", and it needed to be put down hard. Which it was. The assassinations of Black panthers, the infiltrations of peace groups etc. The whole COINTELPRO thing. Which we see being revived right now. All the undercover police officers infiltrating anti-war and peace groups. Most Americans don't even know what COINTELPRO was. Those that don't know their history are doomed to repeat it.

@Maturity, I don't believe you were ever a democrat. But if watching Fox Noise channel turned you into John McCain republican, demonstrates the power of propaganda. You've been brainwashed, enjoy 4 more years of the same if McCain gets elected.