Great post from Peter Daou on netroots and these hearings

[TayTay]

and other things. I recommend it. These hearings are a train-wreck. The tears of the nominees wife will be the lasting image of this. The tears of a woman who might be beaten by a husband because she was required to inform him of a decision to have an abortion might never see the light of day. What are we doing wrong?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-daou/the-broken-triangle-pr_b_13691.html

Sigh! Just Sigh! How many missed opportunities can we stand?

[whometense]

1. Great minds, etc.

Look what I just posted on the other thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=273&topic_id=63772&mesg_id=63841

Someone ought to give this Peter Daou guy a job. He's good. :eyes:

[ProSense]

2. Excellent!

Although this lays out a strategy and pinpoints the problem in more specific terms, this reminds me of the media 101 article I posted in GD-P. The problem I see is that with all the cries about media bias the media is all but ignored in the equation because it is deemed complicit. The idea, as this article suggest, is to change that equation. Saying Eff the media, the entity that largely shapes perception of the masses, is a pretty good sentiment, but it isn't practical.

[TayTay]

3. It is a terrible strategy.

We can't get anything changed without the media. But they have to be cared for and petted and sweettalked and taken out to dinner and stuff. (They are not really easy, they just dress that way. Sigh!)

[blm]

4. That's why Dems need to work at EXPOSING the media bias - think how

much good they could do simply by drawing attention to Russert and the NYTimes protection of Bush. That would clear a few clouds.

[kerrygoddess]

5. I think that

As long as a select group of bloggers control the liberal blogosphere the isolation will continue. It's not just the MSM, it the biases within the liberla blogosphere as well that make us in effective.

[sandnsea]

6. Well, I have a slightly different pontification

What if Dems are perfectly capable of controlling the media. Go over the last year or so and take a good look at the stories. See the positions and beliefs that are printed. It isn't that "a" Democratic view isn't getting into the press, it's that the Democratic view that WE recognize isn't getting into the press. So the question is why. I think it's Hillary Clinton and whatever moderate group she controls. They're shaping the Democratic message, it's just not the message that exposes these Republicans for what they are OR offers a vision for the future that working Americans and traditional Democrats can get behind. I don't know who they're appealing to, I really don't. I confess complete disconnect from suburban America and maybe that's what is behind it. That, or the economic reality in DC is so disconnected from American reality that they really believe $200,000 is a paltry income, like Orin Hatch said today. Maybe they think that's America, people living on $100-200,000 a year. The rest of us out here, the 90% living on less than $100,000 a year just aren't real to them. :shrug:

In any event, we've got to figure out how to do an end run around all of this and figure it out in a hurry. That, or forget it and join the in-excess crowd and just go shopping!