The Press

Glen Greenwald has the latest polling coming out of WaPo/ABC, it's not pretty if you are a Republican/President/Warmonger... it is also not pretty if you are a Republican/Journalist/Tool. The numbers, across the board, suggest that the American public willfully embraces the notion that this administration and it's proxy's in the wingnut-punditocracy clearly have no idea what they are doing or saying. The numbers just keep getting worse and worse but have been largely ignored up to now by the WH, editorial boards and wingnut-talking heads. These entities no longer have any right whatsoever to claim their arguments are based on what the average-moderate-'murican perceives. Not only have they been consistantly wrong prognosticating on Iraq, Plamegate, the NSC scandal, Rovegate I, II, III, IV (should I go on..? I could you know), the DOJ debacle, Libby etc., they have consistantly evoked the will of the American people as proof positive for their dangerous, baseless fantasies. The fact that Darth Cheney, a serial liar and Constitutional menace, is still allowed on our television sets, on a Sunday too, is testament to the disdain and contempt the mainstream media has for us, the American public. From the poll we can rightly assume that large majorities of Americans want a timetable for our withdrawl from Iraq, that Congress is right to impose strictures on a president run amok, believe that the firing of the USA's was politically motivated, that Abu Gonzales should resign, that Rove and Myers should testify publically and under oath, that Nancy Pelosi is not the third coming of the anti-christ and that Congress (The Democratic Congress that is!) should have a say in foreign policy decisions. There were many other relevant questions posed by the poll and we should perhaps all go there and have a look. But for me, Nancy polling at 53% approval is the most damning of statistics, after all the ballyhoo about her recent Syria trip, where she was all but accused of treason and political suicide, we find that a majority of the American public supports her with bells on. So who are these people talking to or trying to convince? Seems to me, the only people who believe their crap do not need any more convincing, they are the hard core, so why waste time and copy on them? When will our media catch up to their public and why is it taking so long? There has been a huge paradigm shift in American thinking recently but to watch, listen or read the traditional media you would never know it, they are not reporting it, not acknowledging it and worse not responding to it. Ask not for whom the bell tolls...!