Right On Their Case

What Liberal Media, ha.

Digby expounds on the ridiculous, Cooler-Than-Thou high school attitudes of what passes for media representation in This Bright Future. 9 days after an historical election, before the Democratic leadership even takes its positions, the so-called Media Elite are sniggering and pointing fingers like the DC Heathers.

Forget that there's a war, killing Americans by the carload (not to mention Iraqis wholesale). Forget the staggering, unprecedented deficits. Forget the corruption, malfeasance, substance abuse, hypocrisy and jail time at all levels of the Right Wing Machine.

Because -good gosh!- some Democrats disagree on who they want to fill leadership positions below Nancy Pelosi.

Digby rightly reminds that when the Republicans took over in 1994, Tom Delay beat Gingrich's favorite for majority leader, too, and the Republican World did not crumble to ruin.

Digby also rightly reminds that the Clinton Media Rules are now again in effect; For whatever reason, Republicans make the millionaire chattering class feel warm and cozy with their trust funds and stipends; Democrats tend to spend far too much time paying attention to those leftover people outside the Beltway. It's demeaning and dirty to remind the Cogs in the Corporate Media Right Wing Shill Machine that maybe Americans outside of DC count, also, and they hate being brought to task on it.

So,, Democrats, take note of Digby's analysis: The media is NOT on your side, and will savage you for every missed step, every gaffed word, every mismatched sock, and eventually will make up shit just to avoid talking about real issues or progress you might be making, while letting the Republicans slide on EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. OF. THOSE. ISSUES.

Example: Just last week, when Kerry muffed a line clearly intended to be derogatory to the Draft-Evader-In-Chief, the media pretended it couldn't understand, while letting Bush slide on ANY NUMBER of gaffes, missteps, and blunders. Shit, the Monkey Leader can barely talk in public without breaking the speech up into three word statements.

So, on to the Honeymoon's Over (what honeymoon? We're Democrats!!) Friday Random Musical Spew.
19,666 items, 78 gigs of music.

1. Weatherman from the album “Think Tank” by Henry Rollins “Muffy, You're mother's a fuckin' idiot!”
2. Theatre is the Life of You from the album “Double Nickels on the Dime” by Minutemen more legendary punks.
3. In The Middle, In The Middle, In The Middle from the album “No!” by They Might Be Giants my son has an ear worm from these guys, the song Older : 'You're older than you've ever been/ and now you're even older/ and now you're even older, and now you're even older.' This one's nearly as bad.
4. Waitin' On A Train from the album “24 Hours A Day” by The Bottle Rockets
5. Funiculi, Funicula from the album “All Wound Up!” by Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer with Brave Combo more great kid's music.
6. The Fanatic from the album “Just Can't Get Enough: New Wave Hits Of The '80s, Vol. 11” by Felony
7. Fractionalized Reception of a Scrambled Transmission from the album “Eeviac” by Man Or Astro-Man? great alterno-surf prog by the authors of MST3K's theme song.
8. Lolita from the album “Light Music For Dying People” by Sordid Humor One of the greatest lost albums of the last decade, it is harder to locate than Stump's “A Fierce Pancake” (which has even shown up on iTunes)
9. Descent from the album “Join The Dots: B-Sides & Rarities 1978-2001 (Disc 1)” by The Cure Gloomier than usual.
10. The Light From A Cake from the album “Key Lime Pie” by Camper Van Beethoven

11. Freedom for the Stallion from the album “The River In Reverse (Digital Version)” by Allen Toussaint & Elvis Costello
12. The Rustler from the album “The Days Of Our Nights” by Luna
13. Heresy from the album “The Downward Spiral” by Nine Inch Nails
14. Black Flowers from the album “I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your A*s” by Yo La Tengo
15. Normal As The Next Guy from the album “Normal As The Next Guy” by The Knack

UPDATED.
As Always, Glenn Greenwald chime in with an excellently laid out and well-reasoned post about the same thing. One item he mentions is how the attacks on Democrats are coordinated around a particular image. An image that fits the media pundit's narrative of Democrats as feckless and unorganized. Again, it doesn't matter if there is any evidence for this, or even if recent events actually support it, as long as things can be twisted and manipulated to fit into this narrative.

The narrative, as the Daily Howler has documented well over time, is what this particular media machine is most interested in propagating. The narrative that George Bush is manly and competent (as opposed to craven cowardly, and bullying). The narrative that Al Gore is boring and obsequious , rather than knowledgeable and passionate.

That the Republican internal elections, where voting was 24-25 to elect Trent Fuckhat Lott, is a sign of reasoned and informative debate, while the Democratic internals, where Nancy Pelosi was unanimously elected and the Number Two was selected by a 148- 58 vote (approximately) showcases nothing but disarray and disunity.


UPDATE THE TWO.
Glenn Beck is a smug half-bright Right Wing Tweaker.