I'm no great fan of Rosie but I hate (really a lot) Donald Trump more x100.

So while I'm indifferent about Rosie's departure from The View, I am not just a little bit sad at anything that resembles a win for that fucking gasbag asshat with the stupid-ass comb-over.

I hope he slides under a gas truck and tastes his own blood.

The Moyers show was great (as usual). His Journal will air regularly on Fridays at 9pm, starting with tomorrow's show featuring Jon Stewart.

Now that Rosie's available, can she replace Adrian on the Slog? Amazingly, she's less annoying. And she's a bit more current on her celebrity gossip.

i have too many fucking ex boyfriends. i knew it was a mistake to let some live.

I stumbled upon that show last night on PBS. I kept wanting to change the channel to something that I didn't have to think about, but I couldn't stop watching it. I didn't trust the media/press before, and this didn't help.

What made me so upset about it was the way that the media kept getting fed big, fat lies directly by the White House, and they regurgitated them all over America. Even though they had doubts about what the government was saying and the way the officials were saying it, papers like the Washington Post kept up the charade. And the few people who objected at all and tried to get the truth to be told were fired or blacklisted or sent to the back pages of the papers. It's so clear now in hindsight what was happening between the government and the media, but so painful to watch being replayed.

Another odd thing about the PBS program: Phil Donahue was one of the most conscientious reporters they interviewed. WTF!?

“Why the bleeding fuck haven’t the Bushies been arrested? Why? WHY? Oh, God…WHY?”

Answer: As a nation we simply lack the courts or integrity to deal with people like Bush, Cheney, Rove, et al.

Another question:

Now that we’ve found the real Neo and Trinity, can we please find the real V for Vendetta and unleash him or her on the Republicans?

“Why the bleeding fuck haven’t the Bushies been arrested? WHY? Oh, God…WHY?”

Well we DO have a tool to hold them accountable: its called "impeachment", and the media can make good on their monumental fuck-up by giving some coverage to the impeachment articles brought right now against Cheney by Dennis Kucinich.

Here is the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP6HgbtssFI

And don't give me any of that "its too late" bullshit. Impeachment is not removing from office, it's a formal accusation, that brings discussion and investigation to the floor.

Impeachment was created specifically for this kind of situation. This story and video deserve a place on the front page, and at the top of the blogs. Its a matter of protecting the rule of law and the constitution for years to come ~ no matter who is in office.

"Buying the War" can be seen for free at

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/btw/watch.html

(1) I totally agree with Monkey. I'm sort of indifferent about Rosie, and I never watched The View (I don't watch TV any more). But I despise The Donald. I mean really. I can't think of another man in this country who is both more arrogant and useless.

(2) I can think of someone who is more criminal, on the other hand: our Decider in Chief. I have been skeptical of this war idea since it started floating a few days after 9/11. I always wondered why much of the mainstream press seemed to regurgitate White House press releases more-or-less unquestioned.

I mean, if the president says: "Starting tomorrow, the sky will be purple, not blue any more." Isn't the press supposed to be skeptical? To question authority? To verify claims? Shouldn't their response be "What evidence to you have to support that assertion?" and then verify it themselves, before blithely printing headlines that the sky will be purple now?

Sure, Bush, Cheney, and Rummy should be promptly shipped off to the Hague for war crimes, but the press deserves a lot of the blame for being completely spineless stenographers in the face of absurd claims made by the White House almost daily since nearly his first day in office.

You spell Tourrette's the way a retarded person would, the same way giant forehead-types used to scratch "faget" onto lockers at my high school.

The Moyers program covered territory earlier explored by Michael Moore and others, but it was so thorough and damning to the press that it was still shocking.

Even more shocking is that this is four years after the start of the Iraq war, the press has been thoroughly discredited, and those "journalists" who were too lazy to check facts and simply were a mouthpiece for the Bush Administration still have their jobs. Except for Judith Miller, who left the NY Times due to the Valerie Plame scandal, not because of her misreporting and cheerleading for the war.

The Washington Post (save Tom Shales' column on the Moyers show earlier this week) and NY Times are still hoping this history is forgotten. Even today, the Post published a scathing, off-the-mark attack on Senate Majority Leader Reid by David Broder.

One person quoted near the end of the program said that journalists work for large corporations, who need legislation of various kinds from government. There is self-censorship of reporters because they know that going after the wrong people could cost them their jobs, because the corporate owners don't want to upset legislators.

This means we'll likely keep getting the same non-reporting in the future, as long as people rely on the bigwigs for their information. We'll see if the blogsphere changes things.

The Moyers report was excellent. I happend on it by accident. I just wish more people had seen it. Maybe a lot of the press will see it since a number of their big-wigs were featured and maybe it will shame them into actually doing their job. At least we can hope.

What's very troubling about the Moyers report is that in the last four years especially, the frothy right wing has been constantly decrying how liberal the media is (except, of course, for Faux News).

Moyers proves that to be horseshit, over and over. The media was in lockstep with the administration.

I'm very curious what very conservative people thought after watching the Moyers special. If they even watched it. Will it change their "The liberal media" mantra one bit, or has it opened their eyes to how completely cowed and unliberal the media truly is?

Why oh why indeed. Because most people thought they'd get cheaper gas, and don't care about the death of the republic. Now that the promise of free-flowing oil has been replaced by free-flowing blood thay claim they didn't know or were misinformed. BS! It was obvious and people thought they'd be better off for it.