An Open Letter to the Mainstream Media
By Eric Strauss:
...you, Mainstream Media, are responsible for these monsters. We citizens, unfortunately, mostly accept the status quo that you sell us. And the status quo you've been selling the last few years, is a steaming platter of horseshit.
This administration passes out big brown bags filled with the stuff, and all you can think to do with it is heat and serve.
...you, Mainstream Media, are responsible for these monsters. We citizens, unfortunately, mostly accept the status quo that you sell us. And the status quo you've been selling the last few years, is a steaming platter of horseshit.
This administration passes out big brown bags filled with the stuff, and all you can think to do with it is heat and serve.
posted by Management at 10:08 AM
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At this juncture, to be discussing Beltway politics at all is disgusting. It implies business as usual. And we are not amidst a time of business as usual; we're surging full throttle towards catastrophe. The underhanded, amoral, slash and burn politics of Rove, Bush et al warrants nothing short of sustained outrage - torches and pitchforks - blazing headlines filled with extreme verbiage. And you, Mainstream Media, are responsible for these monsters. We citizens, unfortunately, mostly accept the status quo that you sell us. And the status quo you've been selling the last few years, is a steaming platter of horseshit.
This administration passes out big brown bags filled with the stuff, and all you can think to do with it is heat and serve.
For a minute there, recently, it looked like you might be interested in throwing it back at them. But now it appears that you are too whipped even to sustain meaningful coverage of this most minor of a mountain of horrific crimes - the Rove leak scandal.
This administration lied, cheated and bullied it's way into an idiotic and wicked killing spree against the only secular arab country in the middle east! Even the most conservative undercount conceeds 30,000 lives lost. That's 30,000 mothers, sons, fathers, daughters, friends, wives and husbands violently killed on the orders of these men. And realistically, the number's probably at least twice that.
The men behind this nightmare are the most vile of monsters. But somehow you, mainstream media, with few exceptions, can't or won't talk about this very concrete truth in concrete terms. Perhaps, MSM, you are afraid to look at what your horseshit suppliers have wrought? Perhaps you can't stand the guilt?
Each big news outlet - TV, newspapers - even NPR! - spends most of its time dissembling. Instead of captions beneath photos of the dead, we read rhetoric about the respective merits of the various rationales employed to justify the slaughter. Instead of the video footage of mothers wailing over lifeless, mangled flesh - voice-ing inconsoloable despair for their forever-gone beloved children, the tv news desks show us footage of the men responsible for the carnage smiling, slimy and smug, giving speeches, making jokes and making money.
It is you, MSM, that affords them their puffed up legitimacy. Everytime you give "balanced coverage" to killers, you help them to kill again. The only speeches that should be afforded legitimacy in this administration are the ones these bloodthirsty cretins make just before the gas is released into the chamber. Decency asks simply that you show things as they are. Don't make excuses for cruel thugs.
But you are nowhere close to decency. No where close to objective. And now, as blithely as a muddy hog trompsing through a white-carpeted penthouse, you begin to casually walk away from the one bit of criminality you HAVE been willing to notice - the Rove leak scandal.
Why? This story is far from dead. Rove is not only not incarcerated, awaiting trial for war crimes - he still has his fucking job! He's still weilding power! As are Bush, and Cheney and Libby, and Rice of course, but on this issue, with one of your own rotting in prison, it looked as though you were showing signs of life. And now you just sort of shrug. Oh well, I guess if Rove's convicted he'll be fired.
Find a spine, you worthless tools. Quit shining the shoes of murderous vermin. The nation is a woman. These rapists have her on a dirty table in some dank alley. And you, MSM? You're fetching them rope to tie her down! "Yes, sir Mr Bush, I know where there's some mighty fine tyin' rope, just down the road a piece."
Every inch of copy in the so-called objective newspapers should scream for the heads of these war pigs. The evening news ought to be a procession of journalists decrying our nation's descent into despotism. Had any of you slugs a whit of journalistic integrety, a smidge of will, an ounce of autonomy, or a hint of respect for your craft, perhaps the country would stand a chance.
Anything short of unrelenting outrage and defiance is capitulation. Open your eyes, you sheep. These men mean to bring Armegeddon. Dismiss this as bombastic hyperbole if you must. But I entreat you to take off the blinders. Look at the data. Don't allow yourselves the comfort of numbness. You think that this is simply a rough bit soon to pass? Hope may spring eternal, but believing in that tempting whimsy is the most woolheaded of folly.
This is no normal swing to the right of the pendulum. These demons will stop at nothing. They love power. The very best of them, maybe, is horribly, shockingly misguided. The rest are either openly malevolent and/or mentally ill.
So, for God's sake, don't let the Rove thing drop. You've displayed the first hint of courage we've seen in six years. Don't fall back into docility. Hound them mercilessly.
In this battle, the insulting, reductive rhetoric of George Bush is actually appropriate: This really is nothing less than a battle for the soul and the mind and the future of humanity; a battle between good and evil.
Do the moral thing. Meet evil with ferocity and brook no doublespeak or lawyerisms. Never succumb to the hypnotic lies of these obfuscating dissemblers.
It is because I love my country - because I pray for the victory of patriots over tyranny - that I entreat of you, the mainstream media:
Ride whatever point you can muster the courage to ride - if that point is the Rove leak, tip-of-the-criminal-iceberg, then so be it. Ride that. But ride it till it breaks. Then ride it till it dies. Then ride it till it stops twitching. Ride it until we see these maniacs convicted of treason and mass murder. Ride it until we witness righteous justice served.
Pursue truth until each honest citizen knows the grim satisfaction of seeing Bush, Cheney, Rove, and each of their henchmen swinging dead - each at the end of a sturdy rope, tied to a high bough of an old cherry tree, on an otherwise peaceful day in Washington DC, as the sun, at long last, sets upon a free and just Pennsylvania Ave.
Steadfastly,
Mr. Eric Strauss
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