Be Very, Very Afraid Repukes.

[Left Coast2020]

Why do I think of Elmer Fudd writing this title? I'm not hunting Wabbits today.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/20595-focus-why-republicans-should-be-very-very-afraid


Why Republicans Should Be Very, Very Afraid

By Walter Shapiro, Yahoo! News

24 November 13

Washington runs on hype. We live amid an almost daily onslaught of defining moments, game changers and never-before-in-human-history blather. No one has ever been banned from cable TV talk shows for overreacting to political stimuli. Skeptics are often right in the end, but, boy, are they treated like tedious killjoys along the way.

That’s why it’s tempting to play contrarian, as everyone in politics — aside from tea party true believers — is agog over polls showing support for the Republicans melting like a snowman in the Sahara.

A Thursday NBC News/Wall Street Journal national poll found the GOP’s approval rating down to (gulp) 24 percent. This came on the heels of an Associated Press/GfK poll that revealed the thumbs-up verdict on Congress (5 percent) is only slightly higher than the survey’s margin of error (3.4 percentage points). Small wonder that the liberal New Republic headlined a Friday article, “The Last Days of the GOP.”

[Half-Century Man]

1. One nice thing.

In their alternate universe that sometimes bumps into the real world; the republicans are doing great. so, they feel good about themselves.

[msongs]

2. repubs are lucky that dems don't have a clue how to finish the job lol nt

[mucifer]

3. I just looked at the poll. The republican numbers are worse than the dems

but the dems don't look so hot either.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

5. That's only because the Corporate Media has been pushing this False Equivalency bullshit!

Democrats haven't hit back hard enough, and when they do, the Corporate Media ignores or marginalizes them. It's a shame. Very sad. But it's the truth. The American people have bought into the kook-aid that BOTH parties are to blame for the state of the economy and the mess the country is in. We all know it's not true, but again, the Corporate Media blames BOTH parties. And sadly, Jon Stewart, Bill Maher and others who are supposedly on "our side" don't make things better when they, too, perpetuate the fallacy.

[freshwest]

6. Regarding Bill Maher and False Equivalency:

The Democratic Party can hardly 'fight back' when they are not given air time, their mikes shut off, or their words edited. Faux has done that to Obama so often he finally put them out of press conferences.

And the Democrats do not have the largesse the GOP has from the Koch brothers, fossil fuel fuel and other corporations and do not use coverty groups to finance their campaigns. The reichwing has unlimited funding to run mantras, but in order to not be painted with the broad brush of being corporate candidates, my state's elected officials don't take that kind of money. They run on ideas.

But we are increasingly running out of venues to put forth our agenda, in the traditional matter. It really is word of mouth now, which is not as fast or powerful as billionaire owned media.

Just sayin'

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

7. I did make that point in my commentary, but Bill Maher was very difficult on Obama/Dems

this past Friday. He left me shaking my head, once again. I want to believe that it was because there were more progressive sympathizers and he wanted to "appear" fair to Ehrlich. But please! Ehrlich was once my governor. Yes, the SAME governor who participated in election rigging here in the state of Maryland with the help of Michael Steele, then his Lt. Gov. Very few covered his shenanigans, even in the Washington Post and when they got around to it, it was too late. He was already governor and too late to go back and prosecute the wrongdoings. Those who serve time or paid for their discretions for lower level peons, not Steele or the governor who were gave the orders from the top.

Yes, I know that Corporate Media shuts out Democrats and absolutely hates anything Barack Obama. Still, Bill Maher or anyone even remotely sympathetic to our side of the ideological spectrum is only given a modicum of attention, so when they do, they MUST be responsible.

There have been many times when Maher and Stewart and others on our side have not been responsible. And while I know that they aren't journalists and it may be unfair to expect them to get the story straight all the time, they still are the only reliable spokespeople we have to get the word out, since our voices are so often shut out of the discourse. It is absolutely imperative that they speak loudly and be more responsible and not even go down this false equivalency road. I really fucking hate the moral equivalency meme. I totally do. It drives me up the wall. I do everything I can to educate people on this end because I work in D.C. and due to the nature of the work that I do, but there's only so much that I can do and only so much that I can take. I'm sure you feel the same.

That's really all I ask, and I don't think it's that much to ask someone like Bill Maher who's very knowledgeable of politics to know and understand why the president didn't and could not close Gitmo. The reasons are very basic and thus easy to explain in plain English. This is one example. He should not be sitting there not telling the truth about Gitmo and falling for Corporate Media/wingnut misinformation like he has on this and some other issues. That's unacceptable and he should know better.

[BlueMTexpat]

8. Excellent post! Thanks. eom

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

4. The Corporate Media has only been obsessed with how everyone hates Obama. It has focused very

little on the ReThugs. It has concentrated most of its attention on destroying this black man in the White House.

[Left Coast2020]

9. Media Reform. I'm telling ya.

If we don't push it now, we're not not going to be in good shape going forward.

You want diversity in voices, then end corporate media. Its time.

http://signon.org/sign/restore-the-airwaves