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.

Fix News ADMIT to sending their reporters 'out to cause trouble'

Further to yesterday's humiliation of Fix News at the 'Recreate '68' march, when adorning 'Fox News' signage reporter Griff Jenkins positioned himself in the midst of the marchers, and unsurprisingly received a barrage of four letter expletives. Today Fix News shockingly confirm on air, that they are intentionally sending reporters 'out to cause trouble'.

The alarming admition was made during this morning's edition of Fox and Friends (Tuesday August 25th), not by some over zealous commentator, but by the show's host Brian Kilmeade.

Can you imagine the BBC doing the same? What kind of a news network is this? couldn't they at least try to be a little more grown up. I'm sure a news network admiting to sending reporters out specifically to 'cause trouble' has to be a first....totally unbelieveable.

I'm amazed that this type of confrontational broadcasting is allowed to happen. This is a major political convention featuring one of this country's presidential candidates, the Fix News announcement that they're sending reporters out not just to cover any trouble, but to actually 'cause' it, is way beyond irresponsible.

America deserves better than this, hard working Americans struggling to meet the bills don't want to hear that major media networks are sending out reporters to 'cause trouble'. It's the American tax payer who picks up the bill for all the 'trouble', we pick up the bills of policing, any public damage, and the costs of keeping someone behind bars. It's outrageous, we deserve more and Fox News need to be told so.

Fox News desperate to 'Recreate '68'

Oh man! I just love this.

So, the Dem convention has finally begun and as you'd expect it's accompanied by plenty of poor, honest Fix News reporters just doing their best to bring us 'fair and balanced news'. In the clip below you'll see how they have to deal with 'angry leftists' refusing to speak to them.

This is hillarious well worth spending 2 mins checking it out.

SADLY, BUT NOT SURPRISINGLY THE VIDEO HAS BEEN REMOVED. PERHAPS IT WAS A LITTLE TOO INCRIMINATING OF FIX NEWS AND EMBARRASING FOR THEIR GOP MASTERS.

STILL, NP I'M SURE THERE WILL BE PLENTY MORE. JUST IN CASE, IT BECOMES AVAILABLE AGAIN HERE'S THE ORIGINAL YOUTUBE POSTING

All Hail, whoever the fuck that was protesting!

If only more people were as disaplined as that lot were, perhaps eventually no one will speak to Faux News and their reporters will all cut sad and lonely figures with mics in hand but no one to speak into them.

What's been happening while I've been away?

Before I get into all that is not well in our world, I just had to leave you with a totally irrelevant but enjoyable pictorial reminder of that glorious day when McCain was forced to ponder that Viagra question...

Alright now can someone tell me how the fuck the repugs gained the upper ground on these three issues;

1. The Iraq war - There’s no discussion anymore about whether or not we should be in Iraq, it’s all about the fucking surge, which actually wasn’t a surge at all, it was just an increase in troop levels. I thought the prupose of the ‘surge‘ was so that the troops could come home, but there’s been no troop reduction, there are more troops in Iraq today than there were pre-surge, how’s that a success? The answer is it’s not, the only success here has been for the republican’s pr machine, they’ve done a corking job.
It’s true that Obama voted against the surge and he was right to, the reduction in violence had very little to do with any US military action on the ground, but back room diplomacy and double dealings. This is NOT an area where democrats should be losing ground, but McCain is happy to bring this up all day long. Why? Because it’s a ‘winning’ issue for him, who would’ve thought that any part of the Iraq war would be a ‘winning’ issue for the republicans that illegally drew us into that war. A total failure on behalf of the Democrat PR machine, if it can be called a machine at all.

2. Fuel costs - what the fuck? Republicans sit in congress without the lights on, refusing to go home until congress approves even greater profits for their big oil paymasters, and somehow manage to make those nasty profit grabbing oil companies look like the good guys.

Another example of the Democratic Party PR lawnmower failing. In fact that’s an understatement, they’ve failed so atrociously that McBombit feels confident enough to run ads blaming Obama and the Democratic Party leadership for the high gas prices. And the reason he feels confident enough to run the ads? -- 70% of the American public support off shore drilling.

Depressing as those stats are there’s one thing that can be drawn from them -- the American electorate have not got a fucking clue, it proves they can be ‘sold’ anything. A couple of them even bought the ‘wrong’ London bridge from us once!

3. Georgia - tell me WTF is up with that? - Saakashvilli uses all his airtime to make GOP party political broadcasts, maybe he’s positioning himself to run as McBombit’s VP! Let’s face it, he couldn’t be any worse than Romney, at least he’d offer a more reserved type of ‘bomb it and see’ conservatism.

I’m not even gonna touch on the ‘countries just don’t invade other countries in the 21st Century’, actually repeated by Bush, Rice and McBombit.

No it’s the other brand of hypocrisy I want to address: 200,000 people turn up to hear Obama make some tedious speech in Berlin, and he’s accused of being; presumptive, arrogant, too presidential etc. But, some tin-pot leader of a country most Americans never knew existed, mercilessly bombs citizens of a separatist leaning enclave in his country, which consequently draws the inevitable response from the Russians, and all of a sudden McCain’s talking as if they’ve invaded Bermuda, and starts posturing like it’s the cold war all over again, even tells us he’s sending an ‘envoy’.

So apparently, you can’t make a boring speech in front of 200,000 Europeans, but it’s a OK to threaten war with Russia! Tell me who’s being presumptive here?

Honestly it feels like a bad joke, maybe Ted Turner’s gonna make an announcement, tell us the whole thing was just a really badly conceived prank of his. Anything, please, but this can‘t really be happening, can it?