Huzzah, Bob!

Brokaw has been infuriating me lately with his "real America" schtick.

It's only a degree or two removed from Sarah Palin/Bill O'Reilly talking about "real Americans" or the amorphous "folks."

I say a small business owner or a teacher is no real or less American than a college professor or a union autoworker. But that doesn't fit the pre-determined narrative.

Keep up the good blogging, Bob. Some of us out here in fake America (I'm in a big city) lean on you for a source of sanity.

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Bob the problem is this and it is not nearly the entire fault of the corporate news media. Bottom line is we are being sold a bill that has 0 public option and has a mandate to give money to an industry that has spent the last 25+ years ripping off most who do business with them.

Then we look at the Wall st issue. Who has been fired for what went on? Geithner? Summers? Paulson? Anyone from Goldman Sachs? From Citi? From BoFA? From any Wall st firm? From any regulatory agency? The answer is an obvious NO.

Where was the backroom dealing on anything that was for Main St? But boy was it going on for Wall st.

Right or wrong a majority of people in this country are feeling that we are being left behind, that the employees of Goldman Sachs matter more than the employees of (insert business here).

Those in the senate who are in doubt of their re-election are those who opposed a public option, those who slid money under the table to the Wall st firms, those who pushed for a stimulus package that gave tax breaks over project funding. Tax breaks? How fucking ridiculous.

Where was the voice for mortgage write downs? Where was it for Single payer? Where is it now?

Well, "giving both sides" requires that every time you say, "authentic health care reform would free up resources to help find a cure for Cancer" you have to dig up a guy from the pro-cancer lobby to explain how "the private sector already has that covered, thank you."

Maybe they're low on snacks in the Green Room, and don't want to share. Because they're highly paid full-time journalists and it can't be that they totally SUCK at their jobs.

"...don't blame anyone" ????

What do you mean by "Blame" ?

The people who benefit from a sadly uninformed & phobic American public are the exact same peep's who pay for their bills, and write their paychecks.

Dude, No 'Blame' --it's more like "Mission Accomplished".

Hypocrisy is the hamburger of Repug politics, and cynicism is the special sauce.

I disagree Rover

Had the media done their job, as Bob lays out, then an informed society would not have given a second's worth of attention to "death panels" or "tea parties" or any of the divisive stall tactics put forth by a criminally obstructionist GOP. Shit, if the media took it half a step further and truly and repeatedly exposed the influence of Special Interests on issues like this, maybe society could really know whats going on, and why we never have OUR interests best served.

I know what's in it: death panels. Because Sarah Palin told me and the media repeated it.

Jennifer

In fairness to the folks in TV news, it's not entirely their fault. There was a time when the networks bragged about how much money their news divisions lost. Then the infotainment megacorporations decided that every part of their operations had to be a profit center, broadcast news included.

It would be nice, though, if they'd at least try to explain something substantive once in a while.

And Brokaw has annoyed me since he first started to swoon over "The Greatest Generation."

Exactly right, Bob. Because anyone who really wants to know what's in it, can find it online. It is the job of the Media to report on these things and if THEY say they don't know what's in it, it's because they are lazy.

Mike Barnacle brought it up again: "people don't know what's in this health care bill!" Geez, Mike. Why don't you tell us?!
When all we hear from the GOP is that it's 2000 pages long, most people aren't thinking that they want to read 2000 pages of Senate legalese.

Sounds like an excellent HuffPo topic, Bob.