It isn’t particularly surprising that the President’s overall approval rating has slipped below 50%. He gets a lot of credit for that himself; with the mandate he had, he could have crammed a whole lot of his agenda down the throats of the crybaby obstructionist Rushpubliscums, and there is no sane reason left to continue to play footsie with the likes of Holy Joe LIEberman to get a health reform bill passed into law that can, and should, be done via the reconciliation process. Never in my memory have I seen a guy with so much power going in fritter it away so needlessly. I swear, I think the guy has some deep-seated need to be liked by everyone, and we all know that if you try to please everyone, you please no one. Just ask Mikhail Gorbachev.

Be that as it may….. the assertion made in this CNN article is just stupid. It might not be stupid if the Rushpubliscums showed the smallest sign of having learned from their mistakes, but they haven’t, and no one who doesn’t already swallow their never-ending bullshit is going to be swayed by anything they say now.

Check this out, and tell me that anyone who would make a statement like this doesn’t have an agenda bordering on a fervent prayer.

“The bad news for the Democrats is that the number of Americans who hold the GOP exclusively responsible for the recession has been steadily falling by about two to three points per month,” said Keating Holland, CNN polling director. “At that rate, only a handful of voters will blame the economy on the Republicans by the time next year’s midterm elections roll around..”

Sorry Keating, but we know who was responsible for this mess. Our frustration comes from a lack of action on the part of the dems. We needed someone who was willing to be as hated as Franklin Roosevelt was, and we didn’t get him.

Instead, we are getting our lumps. But even with the lumps we’re getting, it is highly unlikely that most of us outside of Dixie and the mountain west are going to go running back to our rapists anytime soon.

These people don’t learn. There is a reason we don’t trust the media, and they don’t ever learn. We know what’s being done here. We saw it in the near-hysterical coverage of every gathering of more than 3 “teabaggers” that would have had us believe that half the US turned out to carry racist posters. We see some variation on “Everybody Is Beginning To Hate Obama” every week since about the last week of January. We’ve seen paid-off shills like “Mooch” McConnell and Holy Joe LIEberman given almost endless amounts of media attention, while those who represent the views of about 2 in 3 of us-folks like Alan Grayson-are lucky to get a fraction of the 15 minutes Andy Warhol promised everybody.

The media in this country has got the radical right wing so emboldened that they now more or less openly advocate ridding us of the President by any means necessary. They are feeding a monster that will probably require suppression by an even bigger monster before all is said and done. Fanatics don’t need encouragement for their delusions, and the mainstream media in this country has done everything but hand them a gun and the floor plans to the White House. Instead of telling them the truth-that they are a marginalized group of idiots-the media has spent most of its time trying to convince the REST OF US that the fringe lunatics represent some kind of a supermajority.

When these asshats start killing people in significant numbers (and they will,) the media will own a pretty good chunk of the responsibility for the violence. When the  retaliatory measures are fully underway (and that, too, seems inevitable to me,) the media will bear a big hunk of the blame for any who may be hurt or killed in those actions as well.

In these desperate times, when all responsible people should be using their influence to try to calm us down, the mainstream media is doing quite the opposite. Edward R. Murrow, Uncle Walter, Huntley and Brinkley-surely they would be appalled (and there is ample evidence that Cronkite was indeed appalled.)

If you aren’t appalled, I don’t know what to tell you.

Tags: cnn, lies, media bias, rushpubliscums

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