Hillary gives great speech, but why don't the media cover the rest?

So, the mainstream media have been endlessly moaning about the Dems reluctance to 'attack' McCain and the Republicans, but when a great orator stands up (just before Hillary incidentally) and delivers a withering attack speech against McCain and his repug cronies, only CNN, C-SPAN and PBS cover it. No ABC, CBS, Fox (of course), not even MSNBC.

I kept clicking between C-SPAN and MSNBC just to see if they would finally feature any of the speech, but to my amazement they decided instead to feature another 30 mins of warbling between Mathews and Olbermann. The focus of their discussion? - the Dems lack of attacks! with a good sprinkling of Mathews overt racism, if only the Obamas were white, eh Chris?

Still, I was watching courtesy of C-Span, and man, what a speech Brian Schweitzer gave. Schweitzer looks like a cross between a shop floor union rep, an oilman, and a night club entertainer, too many cholesterol laden lunches, but what a delivery.

He was knocking the misguided concept that we could drill our way out of this energy crisis, correctly pointing out that if we drilled every drop of oil on American soil and sea, on all of John McCain's backyards, even the ones he can't remember, we'd still only have our hands on 3% of the world's reserves, and as we suck up 25% of the world's oil, it's a hopeless escapade. All we'd achieve would be ruining our eco-system, the stunning beauty of this country, needlessly endanger our coastlines, and all just to make some extremely rich men, richer.

I did notice that this morning the mainstream media ran a few sound bites from the speech. Not surprisingly they ran the bit where Brian mentioned drilling in John McCain's backyards, but cut before the punch line explaining why the process is pointless, but why? For fear that the secret would get out? That Americans would realize that the whole off-shore drilling scheme is just a scam to ensure the republicans big-oil masters get their hands on the last drips of our black gold.

If I wasn't so used to the biased reporting in this country I would've been screaming at the screen, as it was I merely threw a shoe at it.

This clip of Brian Schweitzer's speech is fifteen minutes long, but well worth watching...



Anyway, on to HRC, she was magnanimous and gracious last night, whatever the content of her speech pundits would've picked it apart to fit their own narrative, it's fucking ridiculous. But, I can say as a staunch Obama supporter throughout the primary season, and having got myself quite wound up on the subject of the Clintons, as far as I'm concerned she was great last night.

Of course instead of finding Clinton supporters who hadn't yet endorsed Obama and went into the convention with an open mind to see what effect her speech had on them, the MSM source out the three or four remaining nut cases in the delegation and voice their opinions. These people are obviously seriously mentally damaged, there is no rational in their objection with Obama, they boarder on stalker.

So, inevitably they come out and say - wouldn't she have made a great president? Yeah funny that they would draw that conclusion from this one speech, isn't that exactly what they've been knocking Obama for throughout the primaries?

Now, HRC can make one speech and her supporters claim she'd make a great president, well the answer is we don't know whether she would or not. I've no doubt that she would've made a much better president than John McCain, but I don't believe she'd be as good at it as Barack Obama will be.