This morning I was watching "Morning Joe" where Willie Geist is holding down the fort fot Joe Scarborough while he is on his summer quality time with his family, otherwise known as a vacation.
I was treated first with Tucker Carlson slamming the democratic candidates pandering to the "scumbag bloggers of Daily Kos, rather than going with the established DLC the people that will help them in the "general election" and how they had made a mistake in blowing off the DLC annual meeting in ordeer to appear to the "scumbag bloggers at Yearly Kos", due to the fact if they didn't they would find themselves the targets of the vitriol attacks of the "bloggers'. Hey Tucker go back to your bow ties, you are still not "grown up" the blog is where the "true news" is these days, not the filtered BS the boardroom approves to be released as news, but all of it, the good, the bad and the ugly.
Then after Tucker was finished slamming the bloggers, they immediately followed him with Joe Klein who pretty much was a mirror interview, on how the candidates had blown off the DLC to pander to crazy liberal bloggers.
Hey, Tucker and Joe, what is a crazy "liberal blogger"? I am 52, I am a Army veterans who is totally disabled due to my military service, as an Infantry Staff Sergeant from serving in the Army from October 1973 thru September 1982 when I left active duty, and went to work for the Postal Service, then joined the National Guard, was activated for Desert Storm and Desert Shield and went to Khasab Air Force Base, Oman. I served this nation in uniform my entire adult life, until I could no longer serve due to medical reasons.
My brothers all served as did my cousins from both sides of the family. Like our ancestors going back to the earliest days they were in America, my fathers side back to the mid 1700s my moms side when the Irish moved here in the last 1800s, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm and Desert Shield and the GWOT. Exactly how does this make our family crazy liberals? Because we believe in Duty, Honor and Country? Given the fact that fewer than 1% of all Americans serve this nation in the military we are different, but hopefully it is in a good way.
Like many other diarists here on Daily Kos and other blogs, we object to deterioration of our CIVIL rights, you know things like Habeas Corpus, NSA wiretaps without a judges approval. The White House (Dick Cheney) deciding what is right and what is wrong, we broke away from England in 1776 due to a King's rule, I and most Americans are NOT ready to replace it now, because of fear, instilled by our own government.
If the Main Stream Media that you two "men" are employed by refuse to give us "all the news" but rather twist what you do deliver to fit an agenda, then blogs will flurish, because as "good" americans, we demand "all" the news, not propoganda, and not just bits and pieces.
Why didn't the MSM question the Presidents decision to
run" with the 2 amputees the day of the release of the Dole/ Shalala report on military healthcare that "highlighted" the problems the wounded active duty and veterans are having getting the healthcare they "earned" by going to war, in this war of choice, created by this administration.? Why was the "photo op" allowed to be the highlight of the day, instead of the focus being on the problems, the report showcased, and instead of ordering action on the report, Tony Snow, stated there will NOT be a rush to implement any of the recommendations, why? Where is the outrage from the media about this, it has been months since Anne Hull and dana Priest exposed the mess at Walter Reed that inspired the Dole/Shalala commission, well it's back, now where's the "beef"?
I will take the "bloggers" work on Daily Kos over the work you two "men" put out on a daily basis, the bloggers get the truth out, you two promote the corporate's lines and the editor's choice, here in the "blogging world" good writing, facts, and passion take the authors to the status of being read, because the "readers" want to see what certain bloggers say, on TV we are stuck listening to you or change the channel, in Ruckers case I do, everyday at 6, I change to Lou Dobbs and go back at 7 for Hardball, Tucker to me you are not credible, you belong on page 6.