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My favorite Corporate Media outlet to pick on is CNN. Why? Because FOX News is much too easy of a target. I mean, you just don’t need a sawed off shotgun to hit the side of that barn! Dang!

What’s the latest with my dear friends at CNN? How about a poll worthy of the New York Post? Or maybe the National Enquirer? Did Rupert Murdoch buy Time Warner while we were sleeping? Oh never mind.

CNN.COM, do you work for the Bush Administration?

Is that it? Or are you just clueless? Spiderman and MJ get front page coverage.

But nowhere is the truly important ongoing story about the most vile abuse of power in American presidential history. And what do you know about it? Do you have reporters anymore or just newsmodels?

Very, very late last night, just before midnight, the Bush administration submitted a filing in CREW v. Executive Office of the President, our lawsuit challenging the failure of the White House to preserve and restore millions of missing emails.

The backup tapes were recycled. Oh darn. Sorry about that. Oops.

Where is CNN?

Nowhere to be found…

I continue to be amazed at the (non)coverage at cnn.com of relevant factual information. Case in point, the headline reads:

Ex-agent: Waterboarding ’saved lives’

“John Kiriakou said he did not want to perform the “entirely unpleasant” procedure branded by critics as torture, but added it brought results that stopped attacks and saved lives.”

IF you click the story, you get the MORE IMPORTANT DATA:

“A former CIA agent who participated in interrogations of terror suspects said Tuesday that the controversial interrogation technique of “waterboarding” has saved lives, but he considers the method torture and now opposes its use.”

Hello? On the home page you get “branded by critics as torture” and then IF you read the story which many people don’t you get “he considers the method torture and now opposes its use.”

Hmmm.

And oh, by the way, there’s a teensy weensy little story about the destruction of evidence tied directly to this story. Any mention of this at CNN? Nope.

Hmmm.

 

Amazing. Here’s what CNN calls news. Seven of thirteen stories on the home page are irrelevant. We’re living in a world gone mad. Never in history has the news media been more needed to inform the public. Never in U.S. history have they failed so miserably. Raunchy mannequins, chimps, bad kissers and fur-clad piglets. Now that’s what I call news!!!

How about global warming, peak oil, Alberto Gonzales, Andrew CArd, Larry Craig, President Bush’s signing statement designed to skirt congressional oversight, just to name a few. How about the rising cost of food and gasoline that never gets counted in inflation figures, or $4.50 for a half gallon of milk on $6.00 minimum wage? Where’s the reporting on the pending contempt of congress for Hariet Miers? How about the drought. Or how about a story about people committed to making peace in the world. Instead we get chimps. Maybe that’s what we have at CNN, chimps.

CNN.com apparently thinks running a red light is worthy of page one coverage. Oh Britney! You brat. Would you please behave so CNN can cover real news stories. Oh never mind,. they would just find some other titilating trivia to publish instead of newsworthy material.

 

Dear CNN,

Britney Spears will lose custody of children

You call that a front page headline? With all that’s happening in the world, you put this story as the headline?

Where are your souls?

Here are a few possible real headlines:

• Harry Reid slams Limbaugh over “Phony Soldiers” remarks
• Charges Dropped Against Rev. Yearwood
• AT&T will cancel the account of anyone that makes anti-ATT remarks
• Dwindling Funds Force Romney To Dig Deeper Into Personal Fortune

Tell me, CNN, why do I have to dig through blogs to get REAL NEWS?

 

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The corporate media proves again and again they have lost their way as our nation’s news providers. 

It’s time to go elsewhere, permanently.

My frustration, anger and outrage over what I see our current Administration doing has led me to lash out. To do some name calling. Some lambasting. Some ranting and raving. Well, I’m through, finished. It isn’t working.

At this point in time I’m wanting only one thing from the President, Vice-President and Attorney General– their resignations. I want them to walk out of their offices, hat in hand.

I’m not willing anymore to hurt myself by concurrently harboring rage and hopelessness. Or subject my friends to being near me during a rant, alientaing them whilst they scratch their heads wondering what all the fuss is about.

Hating these people won’t help. Whether it be a very, very, bad acting executive branch, or a legislative branch frozen with deer-in-headlights fear that inhibits some “right” action. Name calling, accusations, counter-punches and innuendo do not move us toward a better tomorrow. No matter where these true evils come from or are directed at.

The truth is I don’t trust our media to provide accurate, uncensored information for me as a citizen to make sound judgements about the efficacy of our government’s actions, or to even be able to confirm the accuracy of world events or the veracity of public official’s statements.

The truth is I don’t trust the Bush Adminstration from top to bottom. Their lack of accountability through the use of executive privilege to avoid transparency, the politicization of nearly everything, the wire taps, fired attorneys, Iraq rationalizations, dismal katrina response, and continuous assertions about Hussein and Al Qaeda that evidence strongly refutes, leaves me wholly bankrupt of any faith in their integrity.

The truth is I don’t trust Congress anymore either. While they fiddle, Rome burns. They want to move carefully. They are being careful all right, trying to put out a raging fire with a squirt gun. Our country is burning. What shall they do to save it? Seek a Special Prosecutor to investigate Mr. Gonzales? Squirt.

So let’s be clear about something. I not willing to hate Mr. Bush or any of our government officials for one more second. However, I do want to stop them from bringing ruin to this country or at least long term damage to the Constitution of the United States. Impeachment is the only and rightful remedy for the Constitutional crisis that the Bush Administration has created.

We all agree– we want a secure country with access to lots and lots of cheap oil that enables our luxurious american lifestyle. But not like this. Not like this.

Will you act? Will you call Congress and tell them they are failing their Constitutional duty to enforce checks and balances by impeaching the President and Vice President?

I have, I do and I will.

When a newspaper owned by Richard Mellon Scaife, the Pittsburgh billionaire and patron of conservative causes, calls into question the sanity of our President, it’s worth taking notice.

Read this article calling for the redployment of troops in Iraq:

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003612271

Who is Richard Mellon Scaife? Read this WaPo piece:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/scaifemain050299.htm

As our President fades into madness, our country shows faint signs of life. Thank God.

If you think that impeachment of Bush and Cheney is too harsh or might damage our beloved Republic, find out why the exact OPPOSITE is actually true. If Congress does not begin impeachment proceedings, there will nothing in place to prevent future Presidents from violating the Constitution as this adminsitration has repeatedly done.

This PBS video features both liberal and conservative Constituional experts who AGREE that impeachment is the only course available to us to save the United States of America. I agree wholeheartedly. It’s so refreshing and hopeful to see 2 opposing parties/ideologies meet to defend more important underlying principles– the very principles that made our nation strong and free.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/07/14/bill-moyers-roundtable-on-impeachment-of-bush-cheney/

 GREAT STUFF!

Here’s a petition for what it’s worth.

http://archive.democrats.com/elandslide/petition.cfm?campaign=impeach

Better, call our beloved gutless House Speaker and demand she begin Impeachment proceedings:

Office of the Speaker
H-232, US Capitol
Washington, DC 20515
(202) 225-0100

http://www.speaker.gov/contact/

 

here’s a form letter for you if you can’t think of anything personally touching to say:

Dear Speaker Pelosi,

I humbly request that you begin impeachment proceedings against the President and Vice-President. Scratch that, I demand that you do! It’s time to defend our Constitution and our Republic against a band of hooligan miscreants called the Bush Administration. That’s your job! It’s called checks and balances, ever heard of it?

Have you seen this? Wake up, girl!

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/07/14/bill-moyers-roundtable-on-impeachment-of-bush-cheney/