HUMPTY DUMPTY-BUSH

That's right. Ever since 9/11 we have been told of polls that said a large majority of Americans loved Bush, that they approved of him and that women felt he was protecting them.

The same polls told us that the majority of Americans approved the Iraqi war and expected our troops to find WMD's by the barrelfull. Even now as at least one American soldier dies in Iraq every day, the damn polls indicate that most Americans are still cool with that.

Ever since the campaigns began, the reporters and talking heads were laughingly dissing the Democratic candidates asking questions like, "Can anyone of them really beat Bush?" as they carefully drove home the Bush message that he was SO LOVED, loaded with million$ and the Dems weren't.

But they got their comeuppance just days ago. All it took was a bunch of free American voices putting their money on a candidate who asked the same questions they did about the Bush regime and demanded the answers.

And it was hilarious to watch the media suck-ups scrambling around for excuses as to why they, the reporters of news, didn't have the foggiest notion of how Americans really felt.

An unknown former governor, of what CNN's Robert Novac always derogatorily refers to as "The People's Republic of Vermont" suddenly materialized with 7.5 million$ from cyberspace. Without warning the media was confronted with a whole lot of people it never knew existed.

Some reporters panicked and tried to pass the contributors off as computer kids or wild left wingers that never voted. But the money these people contributed to the Dean campaign soon gave a lie to that.

From Ron Brownstein in LA Times: "With the click of a mouse, Liberals find answer to Limbaugh":

"For about 15 years, a nationwide constellation of right-leaning talk-radio hosts has provided conservatives a powerful means of mobilizing their grass-roots supporters to enlist in causes and campaigns. The left has never been able to establish a competing galaxy of liberal gabbers or to find an alternative mechanism that can persuade and activate as many voters as talk radio. That alternative may have arrived last week. History may record former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean's unprecedented success at raising money online for his Democratic presidential campaign as the moment when the Internet emerged as a political tool comparable in strength to talk radio."

It's time those whose opinions and beliefs have been ignored by the media are heard. Still, the captive media is treading softly on the revelation that Bush lied in his State of the Union address. Many newspapers did not even feature the story the next day and some ignored it altogether.

The Bushites are now claiming that the ends justify the means. Since when was that a family value? We thought the ends were never an excuse to justified the means.

Since Bush stole office, all Americans were condemned everlastingly by the media abroad for his agenda. Bush et al was simply a synonym for Americans. We were war-like creatures bent on controlling the world. Well, by the great Caesar's ghost, we knew that was untrue. There were folks all over the Internet who voiced our feelings.

They and we continually asked the media, "Who is being polled?" No one had been polled that we knew of. Our mail contained the same questions. "Why is the media representing only the Bush agenda in their talk and articles? Why aren't any of us chosen to do an interview?

"Why is it that whatever Ari says in his press conferences is considered the gospel truth? Isn't it the media's job to question power? Why is it that Bush's desertion of his National Guard post in wartime is ignored instead of being hammered like they did Clinton's draft avoidance?"

Come to think of it, why did the media allow Bush to declare that everything about his life prior to finding Jesus was off limits? Surely something was and still is very wrong here and even a lovesick, fawning media should be covering it, instead of covering it up.

Iraq is smoldering as young soldiers die. Americans are a smart people and they know that when hornets attack you go for cover and give them time to calm down. You don't pound on their home and stand there bragging about your big stick and telling them to "bring 'em on."

Our homeland security sucks while the media does a Rip van Wrinkle and our country is maligned. Change is coming and the media better wake up and get on board. No matter how loudly Bush and his cohorts protest, the ends (oil fields captured, Saddam ousted) do NOT justify the means (lies, lies, lies and threats to convince America to go to war.)

twanda@sover.net

2003-028

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