Dean and the Corporate Media

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Wednesday December 08, 2004 · 7:50 PM PST

2004/12/08 · 19:50

I have posted the link to this article on Kos many times before, but I'm going to do it again:

http://www.blackcommentator.com/75/75_cover_dean_media.html

It is an article from the progressive online publication "The Black Commentator." It was put out right after Dean was taken out of the running for the Dem nomination.

I post it for three reasons:

Many of you still think that Kerry won the primaries "all by himself" and that Dean lost "all by himself" and that Dean's loss was just a simple matter of more people liking Kerry than Dean;
Many of you still haven't "gotten it" yet as to how the corporate media works;
I want you to read it to marvel at how prescient it was with respect to what was going to happen to John Kerry in the general election.

Must Purge Michael Moore

PhillipG

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Wednesday December 08, 2004 · 7:07 AM PST

2004/12/08 · 07:07

The elites inside the beltway who control the Democratic Party are out to make sure that the activist base of the Democratic Party is marginalized at all costs. The inside-the-beltway conventional wisdom now seems to be to purge anyone who questions American's imperialist designs and labeling them, either implicitly or explicity, as "anti-Amreican" (See my last diary entry.)

Along these lines, activists like Michael Moore and MoveOn need to be marginalized or purged. (Will those on the blogosphere be next?)

Read this piece by Peter Bienhert of "The New Republic," and see how he is carrying on the battle the DLC is waging against Moore, MoveOn and the anti-Iraq war activists:

http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/35658.htm

See how many distortions and questionable assumptions you can find in it.

Hint: Did you know that those of us who opposed the Iraq War are really no better than the communists sympathizers of the 1940s and 1950s?

Also, did you know that Michael Moore controls the Democratic Party? Read More

Another DLC Abomination

PhillipG

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Monday December 06, 2004 · 4:19 PM PST

2004/12/06 · 16:19

Check this espose out by Tiabi (via Atrios) about the DLC assholes who currently exert so much influence over the Democratic Party and its candidates . . . like John Kerry, Joe Lieberman, etc.

This time, the abomination involves the DLC's attempt to distance itself from Michael Moore and the anti-war crowd on the ground that they are somehow "un-American":

http://www.nypress.com/17/48/news&columns/taibbi.cfm

I am beginning to think that the DLC is no more than a clever Republican plot to infiltrate the Democratic Party and subvert it from the inside.

In any event, whether you like Howard Dean or not for DNC Chair, I think any right thinking Democrat agress that the DLC and their ilk need to be purged from the ranks of the Party leadership once and for all.

Pertaining to the Issue of DNC Chair

PhillipG

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Monday December 06, 2004 · 11:26 AM PST

2004/12/06 · 11:26

For those of you interested in the issue of whether Howard Dean should be DNC Chairman, I just got this e-mail from Tom McMahon of Democracy for America:

Governor Dean will lay out a vision for the future of the Democratic Party this Wednesday at 12 p.m. Eastern in Washington, D.C.

He will outline not just a direction for our party, but a concrete destination: a party built from the ground up.

That means a party powered by millions of small donors, not millionaires. It means a party that speaks plainly and commits to concrete outcomes that affect real people. And it means a party that competes in every single race, for every single vote, in all fifty states. Read More

Indictment of the DLC

PhillipG

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Thursday December 02, 2004 · 9:27 AM PST

2004/12/02 · 09:27

Once again, I post a link to the an article from "The Black Commentator."

I LOVE this publication (and I'm not even black):

http://www.blackcommentator.com/116/116_cover_black_dems.html

I think it hits just about EVERY issue that is of concern to progressives on the head, especially the issue of voting rights and election fraud. And in this case, pay attention to how it talks about the DLC as a life-strangling force in the Democratic Party (and upon certain candidates' actions).

I post this, in part, because there are in my opinion too many DLC-minded Democrats on Kos (whether or not they even know what the DLC is), who need a wake-up call. I think you folks need to read this and absorb what it's saying.

Would Dean Really Have Been Trounced?

PhillipG

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Wednesday December 01, 2004 · 11:37 AM PST

2004/12/01 · 11:37

I've read many comments to the effect that if Dean had been the nominee, he would have been trounced worse than Kerry was.

I find this interesting for the following reason:

During the run-up to the beginning of the primary season, the GOP and GOP surrogates (like the Club for Growth and partisan media hacks like Krauthhammer) were attacking Dean, going so far as to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on television ads in key states to attack him and bring him down. What is truly amazing about this, is that not a single primary had yet taken place, and yet the GOP was so threatened by the possibility that Dean might win the nomination, that they actually ran television ads against him . . . BEFORE a single primary contest had even taken place.

Now, someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that such an act by an opposition party to intercede this early in the OTHER party's presidential nomination contest is unprecedented. Read More

Kerry-ites complain about Bush's negative campaign.

PhillipG

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Tuesday November 30, 2004 · 2:03 PM PST

2004/11/30 · 14:03

The link to the story is here:

http://www.nyunews.com/news/campus/8429.html

Forgive me for being unsympathetic, but what the fuck did these Kerry people expect? I mean, many of us had been watching the Bush Administration and Karl Rove in action since they before they took office during the 2000 election controversy and new quite well, after all this time of having established a pretty horrendous track record, how they operated and what they were capable of.

Do you mean to tell me that after three years in the Senate of watching and dealing with Bush Administration crap, he still had ILLUSIONS about how he could run a campaign against these people or about what they would or wouldn't throw at him? Read More

J.Kerry--Someone enlighten me

PhillipG

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Monday November 29, 2004 · 11:11 AM PST

2004/11/29 · 11:11

Look, I know there are a lot of Kerry lovers on Kos who really believe in him.

Needless to say, I never have.

So, help me out here, you Kerry supporters:

Within the PAST FOUR YEARS what political stands or political issues has he been out in front of in terms of the public arena, courageously staking out a position and advocating for it and/or arguing for it? In other words, within the past three years, in terms of what issue has he really put his ass on the line in any risky or controversial way?

Put another way, WITHIN THE PAST FOUR YEARS, where has he ever LED on an issue, instead of going with some sort of prevailing political wind of the moment?

It IS possible that he has done so. But if he has, I'm certainly unaware of it.

So, someone please enlighten me.

Kerry's "nuanced" position on Iraq

PhillipG

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Tuesday November 23, 2004 · 12:01 PM PST

2004/11/23 · 12:01

I have become extremely annoyed whenever I have read, in response to my criticisms of John Kerry for voting for the Iraqi War Resolution, that Kerry's actions with respect to the Iraq war represented some sort of "nuanced" position because he was giving Bush the authority to go to war a) only for the purpose of putting pressure on Saddam to open up his country to inspections, and b) only under the condition of the promise from Bush that he would first seek help and consensus from the international community before mounting any attack against Iraq.

My main criticism with this "nuanced" position is that it strikes me as a bunch of bullshit. My main frustration with the people who parrot it is that it shows them to be uninformed, not that intelligent, and/or extremely gullible. I also think that they possess a great need to indulge in hero worship, or continue to nurture the illusion that establishment Democrats really have their best interests at heart. Read More

Iran--WWDD?

PhillipG

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Sunday November 21, 2004 · 4:21 AM PST

2004/11/21 · 04:21

I've asked this question before on a previous diary entry.

But I want to ask it again.

If the current rumblings by our government about Iran's "hidden nuclear weapons program" turn out to be just the first step toward another PR campaign to manipulate American public opinion into supporting a "pre-emptive" strike or invasion of Iran, what do you think Congresonal Democrats will do in the face of this plan?

What Would Kerry and the Dem Estab. Do?

PhillipG

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Friday November 19, 2004 · 1:53 PM PST

2004/11/19 · 13:53

There has been a lot written on the blogs during the past two days about how this Administration is now gearing up to attack Iran.

No doubt, if this true, the Administration will accomplish this by painting Iran out to be secretly developing nuclear weapons, in spite of whatever ostensible deals its government has reached to the contrary with England, France, and Germany.

The American people will once again be manipulated into believing that Iran presents an "imminent" threat to our security.

For the purposes reinstituting a draft, in the wake of another major terrorist attack (one can always be arranged), it should be a cinch to get the public to go along. Indeed, blaming Iran for the terrorist attack should do the trick.

In any event, if and when we are faced with the prospect of going to war with Iran and/or reinstituting a draft, what do you think Kerry and the other DLC-influenced Dems in Congress will do?

Will they play along once again as they did in 2002?

Your thoughts?

John Kerry's Betrayals?

PhillipG

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Friday November 19, 2004 · 5:55 AM PST

2004/11/19 · 05:55

The following article from "The Black Commentator," an online progressive publication, talks about how Kerry and the Dems capitulated and sold out in not asking for a recount in Ohio or raising the issue of voter fraud . . . only to be later put to shame by the Green Party, which subsequently DID ask for a recount. (I especially like the observation about how, to plutocrats like Kerry, preserving the appearance of the "legitimacy" of the system is all important):

http://www.blackcommentator.com/114/114_cover_election.html

The next article, from the WaPost, details how Kerry had $15 million left over in his campaign fund after the election (a detail also mentioned in "The Black Commnetator" piece.):

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61072-2004Nov18.html

The obvious questions raised by this money are:

Why wasn't this money spent by the campaign in places like Ohio?
Why wasn't it donated to candidates down-ticket where it might have made a difference?

Note: This year, the Greens DID NOT back Nader.

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