Cenk Uygur has another brilliant essay in the Huffington Post called Does Anyone Really Not Support the Troops?. I'd try to pull quotes but it's all good. The media probably isn't controlled by some cabal but does get it's priorities wrong. Well there is a good quote "There are several reasons for this. The two most important ones mentioned were the enormous right-wing echo chamber that still controls the conversation and the lack of engagement by the Democratic Party in the media wars."
He brings up an example of how the Republicans were in power and hated the Democrats fro threatening to filibuster; but now that they are the minority they're doing so all the time and the media doesn't call them on it.
Basically the right-wing media effectively gets out it's (fraudulent) message and the Democrats can't defend themselves. "The war in Iraq has been going on for nearly four and half years and the Democrats have still not figured out a way to get out of the verbal trap known simply as, 'support the troops'."
"Here's a response a journalist with any sense and ethics would say to a Republican politician who uses this talking point, 'Senator, do you believe the Democrats really intend to harm the troops? Do you have any evidence of this? Can you name names, who are these villains who hate our own people? If you can't answer these questions, can you please tell me the real reason for your policy in Iraq without pretending you speak for the troops?'"
Honestly, whoever the Democrats pick as their nominee, I want them to get Keith Olbermann, Jon Stewart, Aaron Sorkin and Cenk Uygur as their speech writers and message crafters. Time to start calling a spade a spade.
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