For some godforsaken reason, I decided to watch "The Week At War" on CNN, because you know, CNN is "liberal media" right? Anyone who thinks CNN is "liberal media" should watch this every Sunday and realize, there is no "liberal media"

Well, three times in ten minutes, Michael Scheuer, a former CIA Agent attacked those who oppose waterboarding and torture. Three times he repeated himself;

"Congress is more worried about what the world thinks of them, what Europeans, the UN, and human rights organizations think of them than protecting Americans... Congress is more worried about how thw world thinks of them than protecting you son and daughter...Congress should be more worried about protecting Americans than what the UN, European countries and liberal organizations think of them."

From The Hill's Pundits Blog:

Don't Demean Almost Half the Country on Impeachment

Brent Budowsky

This is my reply to A.B. Stoddard:

You write that all the Congress has done is have Iraq votes and investigate, which, BTW, happens to be the Republican talking point...

[T]he reason for investigations is that the Democrats, like an overwhelming majority of Americans, believe the Republican Congress abdicated its responsibility for oversight.

If Republicans want to run as the party of perjury, pardons, privilege and abuse of power, that is certainly their right...

MORE MORE MORE

Well shoot, had to come up with a title. Got your attention didn't I.

I just got off the phone with an in-law, he is in banking. And an avid Republican.

As usual our conversation came around to business and how he thinks that all Democrats are "pinko" anti-business and liberal media types.

That man has no concept of what he is saying, he is parroting Dubya and his gang.

Leave it to the miserable establishment media to predictably rely on their out-of-the-box, already-assembled "objective journalism" artifact as a tool of covering any story, that is: weighing opposing arguments as if they merited the same factual standing, and thereby failing to inform the public.

This Washington Post article presents just one more example of how, by resorting on the "he said, she said" story covering ploy, these so-called liberal media stenographers (posing as journalists) misinform and often provide cover to the conservative/republican frame of reference. Incredulously, the Washington Post stenographer (see Steven Colbert's comment on the media, "He's the decider, he announces the decisions, and you type them up and report") begins with:

While a series of marches focused much of the nation's attention on the plight of illegal immigrants, scores of other Americans quietly seethed. Now, with the same full-throated cry expressed by those in the country illegally, they are shouting back.

Let's read that second sentence again: [W]ith the same full-throated cry expressed by those in the country illegally, [opponents of undocumented immigrants] are shouting back. This sentence is laughable and deserving of my contempt. Seriously. Let's consider what the pro-citizenship rallies that I and other American citizens, including documented and undocumented immigrants, looked like (from the LA Times, see here and here) and let us just imagine what it must have sounded like:

(Originally posted on VoxMia.com)

Our media should really bow their heads in shame. Not only did they fail to fulfil their watch dog role three years ago, before the republican president engaged in his war of choice against Iraq, our media now fails to inform the public on just how it was that Bush and crew willfully mislead our nation into war. All right, all right, so am being a little harsh, but that's only because I care -- my rancor comes from a place of love; love for the ideal of what committed and idealistic journalists can and do do for democracy. Well, I guess I should also add that there are two kinds of media journalists, really. There are print journalists, whom by enlarge have done a far, far better job than their counterparts in the broadcast media.

It is this second group, broadcast journalists, that should really be taken to the woodshed, and not be let out till they've done their penance -- the fact is that these journalists are just glorified TelePrompTer readers, always in pursuit of ratings to please their corporate masters. I would go as far as denying these TelePrompTer readers any media credentials and barring them from all newsrooms -- they simply don't deserve to even be called journalist nor to be associated with anything having to do with news.

Of course there's more...

Representative John Doolittle (CA-4) refuses to speak to the "liberal" media concerning the firestorm of allegations exploding around him. According to today's Auburn Journal, Doolittle is turning to his most loyal supporters and asking them for financial assistance so that he can fight against "the same Beltway powerbrokers who have targeted me in the past - the labor union bosses, radical feminists and extreme environmentalists."

The jack booted bosses, feminazi and tree huggers apparently have made up all sorts of lies about Doolittle's connections with Jack Abramoff. I'm not sure what connections those evil liberals are lying about. Certainly it is true that Doolittle received over $50,000 from Abramoff and his Indian gaming clients. Certainly it is true that Doolittle's wife worked for Abramoff and did fund raising for Abramoff's money laundering Capital Athletic Foundation. And, certainly it is true that several of Doolittle's staffers, including his former chief of staff, Kevin Ring, moved between his congressional office and Abramoff's lobbying office.

According to Doolittle the efforts to tie him to Abramoff and other unethical or illegal activities are all a plot. A plot by "the liberal media [that] wants the Democrats back in control of Congress. They don't like conservatives. They don't like President Bush, and they don't like what we stand for. They will stop at nothing to accomplish their goal."