It's already happening.

The list would be long.  

But it certainly would not include car chases, Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, missing co-eds, plural marriage stories, explosions, babies down wells, and so on.

More bombshells were lobbed in the Antoin "Tony" Rezko trial even before the jury was seated this morning and they involved a purported attempt to pull strings with the White House to fire U.S. Atty. Patrick Fitzgerald. In a hearing before court began, prosecutors said they hoped to call Ali Ata, the former Blagojevich administration official who pleaded guilty to corruption yesterday, to the stand.

Assistant U.S. Atty. Carrie Hamilton said she believed Ata would testify to conversations Ata had with his political patron, Rezko, about working to pull strings to kill the criminal investigation into Rezko and others when it was in its early stages in 2004.

"[Ata] had conversations with Mr. Rezko about the fact that Mr. Kjellander was working with Karl Rove to have Mr. Fitzgerald removed," Hamilton told U.S. District Judge Amy St. Eve.

In that inimitable, professional emptywheel way, emptywheel ties a lot more together, here.

Opinions when stated as and expressed as opinions are fine. But the pundidiot class insists on infesting informational areas with their drivel and that's not acceptable.

If I want advice or opinion I'd read Dear Abby. I don't and I don't.

Just Joe Friday us and we are capable of making up our own minds.

He posted a follow-up diary a few weeks later:

I completely agree that the Democrats need to present and fight for a clearly stated set of core convictions, and that we have not done so as effectively as we need to over the past several election cycles.  We can insist on being principled about the ends we are trying to achieve (e.g. educational opportunity and basic health care for all Americans, honest and accountable government, etc.), without sacrificing our commitment to open debate, intellectual honesty, and civility.  I think its the right thing to do and I also think it will help us win.

I also agree that it is the job of Democratic elected officials to help shape public opinion, and not just respond passively to opinion thats been aggressively shaped by the Republicans PR machinery.  I am simply suggesting, based on my experience, that people will respond to a powerfully progressive agenda when its couched in optimism, pragmatism and our shared American ideals.

Silly me!

I do find that many news shows with a conservative slant are more balanced in their coverage. After switching around between MSNBC, CNN and Fox, I settled on Fox for last night's election coverage.  

The moment Hillary finished her speech, Keith asked why she wasn't more conciliatory toward Obama's supporters. Wtf, Keith? She just won a ten-point spread in a heated contest. You can't give Hillary her moment - or a moment for the matter? Plus, her speech was wonderful, which Keith had to admit after Tweety made a point of it. Then he continued to just insult her campaign over and over again in deference to his hero's, Barack, culminating with comparing her to Bush stealing Florida if she wins on Super Delegates.

F*UCK YOU KEITH.  FU!!!

There is not a dime's worth of difference on the issues (other than health care) between them,

and I think many of the differences, as with the differences in their health care positions, are the sort that would tend to make corporate media interests more fond of his candidacy.

Obama's preferred alternative energy sources to fossil fuels are nuclear power and liquid coal, both of which would continue to keep the energy market centralized--no one is going to be digging uranium or coal mines in their yards.

Hillary's has come out much more heavily in favor of solar energy -- this doesn't have to be decentralized and to a great extent it won't be, but it can be--even with existing technology, I already know of fully solar and solar/wind powered homes (I'm in a windy desert area, granted, but there are large stores in Ireland that boast of getting more than 50% of their energy from solar).  

Even aside from there being (at a guess) probably less profit over time to be made from making and installing solar panels and/or small wind turbines, these businesses would by their nature lend themselves to a wide number of smaller competitors as opposed to a few corporate megaliths.  

Also, while Obama hasn't come out in favor of social security privatization, one of his top advisors on the subject is an advocate of this, and it could be that a lot of the people who own stock in the media companies own stock in the companies best poised to take advantage if SS is privatized (this is purely guesswork on my part, I have done no research on this).

The press was lazy when it came to uncovering Obama's past.  Lazy about the health care differences.  Lazy about the differences, really, on the economic plans.  

The press has been responsible for reducing the campaign to snipe remarks.  I listen to both candidates and hear a great deal of depth.  The press interpretation?  Not so much.

My aunt if furious about the treatment Hillary has gotten - the aunt who explained to me in '68 or '70, when I was 8 or 10, why girls should be allowed to take shop class.

I can't stand Hillary, the Blue Dogs, the Bush Dogs, the DLC, the fascist defined fake middle / independent ... AND

I only despise them a hair less than the fascists.  I figure fascists will be fascists, BUT, people on my side who sell me out are real pieces of crap.

I told my aunt I'm for Obama cuz I figure, after getting sold out by electable Bill Clinton, that Mr. New Hope has about a .1% chance of NOT turning into a sell out, and hillary has none.

If I were to score my feeling about the fascists, hillary and barack

fascists -100.
hillary -99.95
barack -99.90

So, I do hope you and I are eating words on barack ... imagine any version of a real progressive?

US corporate media is ideological and biased. It is anything but incompetent.

The media's thoroughly demonstrable consistency in its smearing of democrats and ignoring or distorting of democratic positions, while ignoring republican perniciousness, hypocrisy, and dishonesty and manufacturing false republican down homeyness demonstrates:

• ideology
  
• bias
  
• competence.