by Andrew Stephen
UK's New Statesman US correspondent

Gloating, unshackled sexism of the ugliest kind has been shamelessly peddled by the US media, which - sooner rather than later, I fear - will have to account for their sins

Eric Boehlert has a piece up right now talking about the unprecedented treatment Hillary has received from the Media.....

.....And the fact is, the media's get-out-now push is unparalleled. Strong second-place candidates such as Ronald Reagan (1976), Ted Kennedy, Gary Hart, Jesse Jackson, and Jerry Brown, all of whom campaigned through the entire primary season, and most of whom took their fights all the way to their party's nominating conventions, were never tagged by the press and told to go home.

President Clinton takes on the media in Bill Clinton Faults Press.

He makes a similar point in Obama's Denial For Praising Ronald Reagan.

Clearly, it is the media that really cares about political in-fighting. It's relatively easy for them to hype such stories, rather than taking any in-depth look at real issues and where the candidates differ on them.

Our larger culture tells us that "facts are facts."  Joe Friday asks for "Just the facts, Ma'am."  Many current Democrats pride themselves on belonging to the "reality-based community," which in turn rests on their presumably keener recognition of "facts."  When it comes to Iraq, we're told, solutions have to turn on "the facts on the ground."  We're told that "facts are stubborn things," that they exist in the real world and don't bend to mere will or belief.

Found the following diary at MyDD.com and feel that this is very important. Not just because of who said it and who it was said about, but because it is WRONG for CNN to be supporting this guy.. thing!

Tell me what you think and what we can do about this.

From MyDD.com
http://www.mydd.com/story/2007/3/18/142556/269

This is seriously unacceptable:
http://mediamatters.org/items/200703150011

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Does anyone know if General Clark is aware of today's story in the New York Post? They are saying that a firm
he is Chairman of (Rodman and Renshaw) has received subpoenas from the New York Attorney General and the SEC.
There are more details at www.researchindependence.org.

...basically old JFK is saying that everything that's going on today is illegal.

Rediscovering these wise words confirms what we'd all already at least suspected: That JFK, if he wasn't a prophet, was certainly as much a visionary as his predecessor Dwight D. Eisenhower and his warnings about the rise of the military/industrial complex.

Kennedy here warned early 1960's America about secret societies, manipulation of the media, illegal invasions and occupations of other countries and essentially addressed everything that's going on with the present gang of corporate gangsters....

http://welcome-to-pottersville.blogspot.com/2006/09/voice-from-grave_02.html

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All war is terrible. But it's important to remember, as reporters only cover what's happening in Israel and Lebanon, that Americans are still fighting - and dying - in Iraq and Afghanistan.

And no matter whether you believe we should be in Iraq or not, we should all feel great loss about the innocent American and Iraqi people who continue to die on a daily basis.

At the end of this outstanding Jimmy Breslin article, you'll find a list of American soldiers who died from fighting in Iraq from July 1 to Aug. 6. It includes their ages, hometowns and causes of deaths. I suggest reading every entry.

Hello Everyone:

George Allen will be on FOX News "Your World" with Neil Cavuto today talking about his stance on Gitmo:

http://www.foxnews.com/fnctv/index.html

4:00pm

Your World w/ Neil Cavuto (cc)

"The Gitmo Debate — What's next? Senator George Allen thinks we shouldn't let our guard down just yet. He joins Neil to explain his stance on the controversial Cuban detention center."

This same show will also be repeated at 1:00 AM and at 5:00 AM Eastern Standard Time after the 4:00 PM Eastern Standard Time show today.

Allen will probably wind up putting himself into some kind of a box regardless of what he says so this should be worth watching in my opinion!