More, More, More on the media and the election...

You may notice that I've been talking about these convergent subjects quite a bit lately... and we're gonna be talking about it a helluva lot more for the next few months. I am fully convinced that the upcoming election HAS to be "high noon" between rational Americans and our moronic media. It's time to put an end to a mainstream media that willingly feeds the delusions of people who believe stories about how Obama is, like, an evil android sent by Hamas to conquer and enslave the American people. This kind of "journalism" needs to be KILLED... killed until it is DEAD, and then killed some more. And nothing kills these people more than being ignored... (hmmm... and yet we must talk about them to get people to ignore them... a paradox).

• If you believe any of the hype about Jeremiah Wright, watch Bill Moyers' recent interview with him... as I say in the cartoon, Wright really doesn't say anything that is incorrect. Even in his more "bombastic moments" in the National Press Club Q & A and the NAACP speech, his arguments are reasonable and firmly based on historical truth. Sure he may have come off like kind of an asshole at times, especially during the Q & A... but this just means he'd make a good newsman, right? Asshole journalism is, after all, the standard these days...
  
  
• Being an asshole seems to be the mark of a good, right-wing Christian leader, too. Seems McCain's good pal Rev. Hagee has retracted his retraction of his totally un-newsworthy comment that New Orleans got what it had coming when Katrina hit.
  
  
• Glen Ford on Obama's "race-neutral" strategy:
  

  In order for his race-neutral strategy to appear sane, Obama must constantly paint a picture of an America that does not exist. This cannot be accomplished without mangling the truth, assaulting the truth-tellers, and misrepresenting America's past and present...
  
  He says the "incompetence was color-blind" in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, thereby deracializing all that occurred in New Orleans from the moment the winds died down to this very second. He claims that 1980s Ronald Reagan voters had understandable grievances due to "the excesses of the 1960s and 1970s," in the process cleansing the Reagan victory of any racist content.