I get "Media Matters" messages in my email now and have been for about a week. I am flabbergasted to realize that most of the stories are about rightwingers doing nasty and flagrantly unjournalistic stories about Dems and NO ONE speaks up or corrects them....or so it seems to read 'Media Matters.' Here's the link to them, if you're interested in getting onto their mailing list or just reading them...http://mediamatters.org/action_center/limbaugh_stations/index?qstate=me
I wish I'd kept the messages, but I didn't. Still it's very disturbing to realize that the liberal media and representatives are getting skewered daily by rabid righties and no one is speaking out to refute the claims (often unsubstantiated or downright false). Pundits look the other way; Congress people 'take it' (Are they afraid that by looking assertive, they'll lose votes? NOT ON MY BLOCK!); and candidates laugh it off. What gives? Are we going to let them continue to get away with 'swift boating' us? When will we get some backbone and NOT TAKE IT ANYMORE?
I have sat at my computer through 7 years of Bush and listened sporadically to Limbaugh (I'm one of those masochistic listeners who believes it's important to know how the 'other side' thinks!) thinking that soon someone had to come along to become a noteable spokesperson for the liberal agenda. Well, that person hasn't materialized. WHERE ARE YOU, Edward R. Murrow, I.F.Stone, Jack Anderson, Bill Moyers, Daniel Schor,(anyone care to add to the list?)?????
How long will we let them get away with putting liberal in the same place they so successfully put democratic socialism so many years ago? Are we going to stand by and let our kids think that liberals are the scourge of the earth and hardly to be tolerated...traitors? Or SHOULD they be denigrated for their sheepish behavior...driving their Volvos, collecting their dividends and keeping their mouths shut? Come on!!! Where ARE YOU!!!??? SPEAK UP!!