the venting(s) of Byron Marshall -- forwarded from the sage of Pineville, LA

[Michael Eisenstadt]

What has been especially silly recently is the 
nonsense of the pathetic official Democrats 
attacking Dean because he said what was exactly 
the truth about the capture of Saddam --  that 
the capture of Saddam didn't mean anything. 

Right after the "capture", the administration, 
to play it safe no doubt,even issued statements 
that the capture of Saddam wouldn't stop the 
attacks, and that it was unlikely Saddam had 
been running anything. 

So what the administration conceeds, the 
pathetic standard democratic leadership can't admit! 

And this is tragic stuff: since Saddam was captured, 
it's been one American soldier killed a day. 

As the ludicrous proxy president said, "bring'em on."

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Consider this:

Those with the stomach for it should certainly 
contest the media coverage and the travesty that is 
coming out of the standard Demo machine. Contest it, 
very good. 

I don't have the stomach for it. I've cancelled my 
cable, which down here means tv. 

I do not want to know what the conniving sob's of 
the mainstream media are up to.  

I know that whatever it is, it's fake. And I harbor 
a secret hope that it may be losing its effectiveness.

The article by Frank Rich the other day had something 
interesting to say about all this -- about the 
politics that the mainstream press and their owners 
are playing, and how this politics may be on the verge 
of losing its stranglehold.

The way the system works, and has worked for the last 
decade or so (or more), is -- or so they fondly still 
hope is the case: -- the mainstream press defines the 
psuedo issues, the personalities, controls and 
manipulates the polls, and then uses, or thinks it's 
using, that power to control what the electorate does 
on election day.

this is the same game they played four years ago, and 
six, and eight ...

But Frank Rich suggests that tv is becoming something 
of the past. Not fully, of course, but it is rapidly 
losing ground. 

And also: it's the vigor, excitement, the drive of the 
people you are recruiting, that is very *very* important. 

So I really mean it that all of you who have the stamina 
and the stomach for it, go out there and work for Dean! 

I'll do the minimum in due course -- phone calling on 
election day, that sort of thing. I've done it before 
for *Republican* candidates, folks! I might do 
something sooner. Those of you who are really capable 
of going and talking to people, do so!

And meanwhile, the whole dynamics may be changing. 

In other words, the ability -- the pretense -- the 
sucker game -- by which the media determines who is 
acceptable and manipulates the polls and thus 
supposedly influences the decisive vote -- this may 
be over. Or sliding away. 

The foolish game of the press and the pollsters and 
the powers behind them -- and of the pathetic 
mainstream parties' leadership -- "determining things" - 
this may finally be slipsliding away.

Because an increasing number of people are *fed up.*

What Dean has done is to strike a note of *probity.* 
Commonsense. 

And take note, press idiots: he's *not a liberal.* 
Some of us -- the liberals and left -- might wish he 
was. But he's not. He's very much in the mainstream 
tradition of a Harry Truman Democrat, and this is the 
sort of thing that makes some on the left -- or the 
libertarian side -- grind their teeth and roll 
their eyes.

But I'll tell you this: it's a lot better than the 
berserkers we have right now in office, and the lame 
spearholders *of both parties* that support and 
facilitate the berserkers.

Now if enough people *aren't* energized to get into 
the public arena and fight the three p's: the press, 
the politicians, and the pollsters --  we'll have 
the berserkers for another four years. A very scary 
thought. A very *dangerous* circumstance.

But if you're fed up with the lies, equivocations, 
and cats paw status of the politicians of both 
parties and the tricks and jerky things of the 
mainstream media in support of it -- at least, when 
you "get energized" and go into the public arena 
you're not disgracing yourself: you're not playing 
their game; you're not buying into the values of 
the three p's : instead, you're reclaiming America 
for decent government.

And ... well, how can someone like myself say --  
I reject the shoddy manipulative world of the three 
p's .... 

I can do it because it already stands condemned, 
totally condemned. 

Condemned by the berserker regime it has brought 
into power.

Any system that has given us the Bush 
Administration is a bankrupt system.

That Bush and his gang are in power is a 
sufficient denunciation of the media, the pols, 
the "system." 

It's a bankrupt system, and it is ill-serving 
America.

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