nearly all journalists are guilty—when bush took us into iraq, about 90% of americans agreed because journalists kept parroting bush’s lie that saddam himself had virtually flown all four planes on 9/11—but the american people are guilty too: the only reason why most of the 90% are now angry with bush is that he’s lost every war he’s started: afghanistan’s back to growing poppies & harboring terrorists, iraq’s falling apart, lebanon’s fledgling democracy’s destroyed [this was bush’s war too]—now bush wants to attack iran with nookyular weapons

chuck roberts is more than a typical airhead who reads teleprompters—he’s a typical american—they’re called sheep & they’re getting what they deserve

The real al Qaeda candidate is Joe Lieberman; his support of Bush’s illiberal foreign policy has help make more al Qaeda followers than we have defeated.

Anybody with a dime’s worth of intelligence knows this already.

Personally, I will boycott the corporations that advertise on CNN until Chuck Roberts retracts his words and apologizes to Ned Lamont on air five days in a row.

A ruling class are people who think broadly alike, have similar social positions, have access to wealth and power, socialize with one another and have their children marry one another.

The ruling class in the USA is relatively large and diverse and not always unified in their views because of the large size of the country and diverse interests.  There is also a slight division between old and new money.  The American political/media/elite people have been relatively uniform since the defeat of Henry Wallace and foreign policy has not changed significantly since the 50’s when C Wright Mills called it crackpot realism.

Chuck Roberts function is to create a mindless mind set amongst the public so that the rulers can rule.  This doesn’t matter whether they are called liberal or conservative. Chuck Roberts might be removed if the more liberal rulers, the Soros type and the Rockefeller type think the far right is hurting their interests. The American public itself has nothing to do with who runs the country, at least most of the time.

Can ordinary people have any effect on the polity? Certainly, but not by voting.  As the old anarchist slogan says: If voting mattered it would be illegal.

Large street demonstrations, massive civil disobedience, general strikes, massive boycotts and of course violent revolution can dramatically alter the course of history. It can change policies that are disliked, it can even change governments but all are very hard to pull off.  Ruling elites are tenacious and control the means of violence and manipulation.  However they have been defeated especially on moral issues like slavery and Jim Crow.

Right Now our life depends on the political situation in this country; a far right portion of the ruling elite dominates and are threatening to start a world war. They are literally insane and have to be stopped.

There is a good group that seems to have its act together. It is called the World Can’t Wait, Drive out the Bush Regime.  The Democrats are sometimes worse than the Republicans but at this stage of politics the rule should be to drive out all ultra right wing nutters.

http://www.worldcantwait.net/

Another politically relevant site is Jewish Voices for Peace. Sign the petition.  This is important to change the zeitgeist.

http://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/

Expecting today’s media to do anything remotely like journalism is akin to hoping to win the lottery.  Taint gonna happen.  They make so many ridiculous errors (on both sides of the political spectrum) and they don’t even care to check facts or even research a topic.  It’s all 20 second sound bites.  If I got this worked up over everything I saw on the news, I’d have popped an artery by now.

Besides, who the hell is Chuck Roberts?

I would expect more from CNN than such drivel, but then again, Ted Turner must be frothing at the mouth at what his highly regarded news channel has become.  Thanks, Arianna for bringing this up.  If more people rubbed their nose in it, they might change their ways.

The might say that MSNBC is supporting amerian talibans in Bush administration….or even that Chuck Roberts is an american taliban who is helping out his bretherns in the Bush administration.

I love this woman and she is 10 times better looking and smarter than that peroxide, skinny ass blond with the empty mouth.

One reason the fascist are so upset is they can’t find women like these among their ranks.

American Fascist, you need to join the “dark side” to have real fun.

Chuck Roberts’ “al qaeda candidate” comment was one of the most embarrassing moments in modern telejournalism(oxymoron).  Indeed, there are no journalistic standards in TV News and damn few in print.  We are living in horrendous times and a huge part of the blame are people like Chuck Roberts, their producers, editors and, I might add, those who educated these propagandists.