How obvious can it be what is going on? We've all whined here for seven years that the press is Bush's back pocket, that the corporate media is backing the GOP because it is in their best interest to do so, etc, etc, etc...and now, those same media outlets are blasting messages at us 24/7...all about the racist white woman and the druggie black man.

Is it really that difficult to understand what is happening? Does anyone really think all those old rich white men on the GOP side have NO skeletons in their closets (Rudy's closet notwithstanding...it was hard to ignore, so they gave his peccadilloes two or three hours of coverage about a month ago).

The GOP is in serious, serious trouble, and they have the worst slate of candidates to come along in generations. The mood of the American people is so sour right now that most of the GOP field would lose a race for Dog Catcher. So what is GOP-backed corporate media gonna do? They're going to ignore their own candidates, unless to mention how awesome they are, while telling America that ALL -- all TWO -- of the Democratic candidates are liars, racists, druggies, etc, etc, etc.

Be afraid, America! is the message. Not of terrorists anymore, not of losing your homes or your jobs or your health care...be afraid of uppity white women and druggie black men. They won't even mention Edwards because if they did he'd kick their rich white guys' asses from here 'till Super Tuesday. And they know it.

They know it, and they're terrified of it.

It seems like many DUers have forgotten so many of the things about the GOP and their scummy, hate-filled tactics that we've discussed in well over a million posts. The GOP is backed by the media, the media is backed by the GOP, and therefore the expectation from anyone on DU that Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama or John Edwards is going to receive honest coverage is naive and contrary to everything we should have learned after seven years of this bullshit.

One of our candidates WILL win. That is a good thing, if only to give us our own ass-kicking material to use when against the GOP in the next term(s). But make no mistake...this battle in the media won't end in November. The day after the election a whole new ballgame begins, and they'll be even more fierce and riled up than they were before. Remember, it wasn't the American People who called for Bill Clinton's impeachment, it was the GOP losers, fully supported by the media. And they'll try it again. Maybe no impeachment, but they'll be investigations, scandals, the whole nine yards. Rove is NOT home spending time with the family. Those beakers were all destroyed by the lab. He's been home refining their tactics off-the-books, so to speak.

It hasn't even begun to get ugly. There are BILLIONS if not TRILLIONS of dollars at stake, a megalomaniac's legacy, an entire industry's fortunes...they're not just going to roll over for us. Stop thinking Hillary is accusing Obama or Obama is accusing Hillary...the MEDIA is taking their cues from the GOP leadership on what non-stories to peddle. The more we buy into it, the better their chances are for fucking the NEXT administration, too.

We let them get away with it once. We can't let them do it again.

Peace, everybody.

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