Reply #41: Good post. Problem is they now control investigative sources.... [View All]

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The CIA - Goss
The FBI - Mueller
NBC, ABC, FOX, CNN, and have CBS terrified to do any real investigative journalism.

Without the whistleblowers, and muckrakers we are in serious trouble. Your KKK points are excellent observations. The problem is the KKK brings up white hoods, and hanging of black men in the South. Direct association with the KKK brings up today the David Dukes, but the Ralph Reeds are not far behind. This is a new age, the age of Rove. The ability to "reframe" KKK concepts in a new language without the wite hoods is here.

Somehow, Rove has managed to create the perception that the above KKK principles are "in the national interest" rather than that of cronyism, and that the vote is "a mandate of the people" when in fact, regardless of whether the vote was rigged or not, it was a very close vote, especially if one disregards Texas. But the media refuses to investigate voter irregularities, allegations of fraud and problems. One has to ask WHY? WHY does our investigative sources refuse to investigate and report thoroughly something so critical to our core as the process of the voting process? By simply saying enough that the election is over, they give credence to it and eventually the people acquiesce even thoguh polls showed shortly after the election that their was great suspicion and uncertaity about the reliability of the vote. There is not to say the vote was not accurate, but that the process of investigation by the media DID NOT OCCUR. THAT IS FRIGHTENING TO ME, because it means we are now in a very tenuous situation where grassroots groups are the only way that certain news issues cannot easily reach mass groups of people. My father had no idea form watching the mainstream news that there was ANY kind of investigation going on, or that ANY irregularites had been found. He did not know that Nader had asked for a recount in NH, and the Greens, and Libertairans had asked for a recount in OH, or there was a group like Black Box voting had been looking at voting irregularities. He never heard of Sibel Edmonds, and was unaware that a CIA report on 911 had been suppressed until after the election. One day DU went down for awhile, and I wondered HOW I would get information going forward. How hard it would be IF one was to rely on the talking heads on shows like The McLaughlin Group on TV, or the bias one seens often from Russert on Meet the Press.

My point is that I can feel true investigative media dissolving since the 60's, AND now I fear investigative law enforcement agencies now being compromised, and the rhetoric with the "reframed" language of the old KKK now emerging as the "American Way" emerging.

Even when the media tells us we need to move further Right as the Democratic Party tells me it is beginning even to affect the fundamental principles of our party. Frightening.