John Cory writes: "It is a sorry and sad day for America. Yesterday, Obama released his long-form birth certificate to cheers and applause and 'about time' comments across the great media landscape and inter-tubes. The Villagers are busy pontificating and examining and thumping their own chests in victory. Everyone is smiling and clapping and proud. Not me. What does it say about our 'media' that they have spent so much time and so much effort promoting crazy over reality? That our 'media' relishes circus clowns jumping out of their clown-cars and spraying clown-seltzer everywhere and then giddily covers the wet and stained audience reaction while ignoring the burning of fact?"
A young Barack Obama plays in the Hawaiian surf, circa 1960s. (photo: Reuters)
A Sad Day for America
28 April 11
Reader Supported News | Perspective
t is a sorry and sad day for America.
Yesterday, Obama released his long-form birth certificate to cheers and applause and "about time" comments across the great media landscape and inter-tubes.
The Villagers are busy pontificating and examining and thumping their own chests in victory. Everyone is smiling and clapping and proud.
Not me.
What does it say about our "media" that they have spent so much time and so much effort promoting crazy over reality? That our "media" relishes circus clowns jumping out of their clown-cars and spraying clown-seltzer everywhere and then giddily covers the wet and stained audience reaction while ignoring the burning of fact?
And what is the result of today's release by President Obama?
Donald Trump nearly lost his hair-pet as he jumped up and down, shouting: "I'm Superman! I'm Superman! I did what no one else has been able to do. I AM the great black Kryptonite!" NBC must be Soooooooo Verrrrrry Proud!
This should never have been an issue worthy of discussion, let alone news coverage.
The mainstream media has a long history of making the incredible seem credible. If enough crazy people shout loud enough to be overheard at the Villager's cocktail parties - and especially if there is money, ratings and celebrity status to be gained - then the media will make it "news."
Remember the Clinton run for office? The great NY Times witch-hunt for Whitewater? Vince Foster? Jerry Falwell videos of murder and drug-dealing lies? The birth of Fox News, where no slander was too offensive to air?
How about Chris Matthews' constant attacks on Al Gore for being a "serial exaggerator" and a boring wonk? The NY Times and Washington Post constantly questioning Gore's manliness? Remember? Maureen Dowd and Tim Russert, pointing out he wasn't like the macho W. who had nicknames for the press on the airplane and a beer for all.
In 2004 there were outrageous and despicable attacks on John Kerry and Max Cleland's Vietnam service, challenges to combat medals and wounds and smears against the very nature of their service to their country.
Where was the media?
Parroting and promoting the vile and vicious likes of Ann Coulter and John Corsi, and others. No lie too evil or malicious not to be printed or smeared across the airwaves. ABC's Nightline undertook an "investigation" of Kerry's war record by traveling to Vietnam to find someone - anyone - who could verify or confirm his "story," because the government records of the US Navy had become "suspect."
Why, the media had such a grand time questioning those troublesome war medals that at the GOP Convention, real American patriots sported band-aids with little Purple Hearts as they cheered their Vietnam-era AWOL candidate. Wasn't that funny?
President Obama finally put all this birth nonsense to rest. Right?
Do you think there will be questions about the font used on that document? Or the mysterious curls meant to infer an aging document? Or maybe, if we listen carefully, we'll hear the whispers about how it took this long because they had to forge that document, to make it look real when really - it is not. And what about the registration date? Four days after birth?
And what is the effect?
The next presidential candidate who is Black or Latino will have to provide all of his citizenship papers up front and have them certified by holier-than-thou real Americans.
If it is a woman, she will need to show medical records proving she is a natural female with a medical certificate of virginity at marriage. Or, if she is not married, god-forbid, she will require an Evangelical certification of non-Lesbian orientation.
If the candidate is Asian, well, let's just say they are too smart with computers to get caught forging birth certificates so we'll have to figure out a different test for them.
Obama gave in to insanity so the country could move on to important matters, but the truth is, there will be no movement. As Stuart Chase said: "For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible."
There is a stain now, a stain that will permeate future candidates who might be one of them. An outsider. A different one. In trying to satisfy the poisonous present, Mr. Obama ignored his duty to the future.
No, this is a sad day.
Yesterday morning, the media flexed its great star power and forced a president to jump through a flaming hoop to prove he was American. Viewership through venom is so much more profitable than truth or fact.
By the afternoon, they will weigh in on who the winners and losers are.
Last night, some families packed up their belongings because their home had been foreclosed on, or faced medical bankruptcy because their insurance carrier had denied treatment payments, or struggled with whether to pay their utility bill or buy a tank of gas to go looking for a job in the morning.
We know who lost.
And we didn't have to watch TV to know it.
Maybe it is time to turn off, tune out, and drop the news media altogether.
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Greed of US doctors causes US medical crises.
Let support Sleaze Trump as Republican president - such a perfect symbol of Sleaze GOP.
Compare to other countries. State - one payer system is democratic solutions. Let rich have their private surgeons - keep Cheney like monsters alive.
There are doctors - mostly older - with wider focus than money.
US medicine is technology oriented - not psychosomatic - cut them, give them expensive drugs. There is very little searching for causes (pesticides in everything, air quality, water quality ..) very little prevention - there is NOT PROFIT.
I know how medicine is practiced in countries with less "money culture".
In US it is PROFIT FIRST ... service second. US doctors are not immune to US Money Culture Sickness - would argue that they are even more sick than normal people.
So if you don't like your doctor or disagree with their recommendation, unless you are in a managed care situation get another opinion its alright they won't get upset.
It is the insurance industry that has increased the cost of care using premiums for enormous corporate salaries, bonuses for rejected claims, and salaries of clerks & adjusters necessary to manage massive amounts of documents required per claim. They manage your care not the physician delaying treatment as long as allowed by law, Generally health care fraud is not committed by the patient but are unintentional innocent provider coding error or misunderstandin g of massive, complicate coding system.
I threw the wretched thing out from a third story window (it bounced once), 16 years ago.
Ever since then life has been so much saner.
Our media is owned and managed by people who need eyeballs for advertising more than people who need to get the news out and be responsible about it.
Many of those people are in on the GOP joke, and are willing to destroy the President's at any cost.
Just more reasons why Reader Supported News is appreciated, alive and well, albeit always broke.
cont.
The blacks invented practically everything we use today: Blood plasma,portable xray machine,pacemak er,linoleum,syn thetic marble, elevator,refrig eration on wheels....name it, "the blacks" invented it.
Jack Lohman
http://MoneyedPoliticians.net
It’s not a shame but a catastrophe that ideology and greed has undermined the best tool for a free and working democracy…a free and ‘working’ press.
“Freedom of the Press” , phrase. (Oxymoron) Synonyms: Lying; obfuscation; innuendo; senseless blather; hype. Antonyms: The truth; the whole truth; and nothing but the truth.
Let him run -
president. Most of the brilliant people
are Jewish, why can't one get elected? Another form of bigotry.
By the way I am not Jewish.
Nobel price ...
What a silly notion. There are brilliant people in every nation, race, corner of the earth. And many Jews who are not brilliant. But I do hope there will be a Jewish president soon, preferably a Jewish woman.
this is what's wrong with America.the exceptional ones. I think its from possibly too much inbreading, but that's just the way I see it.
http://www.borowitzreport.com/2011/04/24/trump-dogged-by-rumors-his-hair-is-not-from-us/
You can't win with losers, and there are so many losers roaming the halls of Congress and our state houses and clogging the airwaves these days.
This racism still exists today in order for Blacks to get contracts and/or do business with government and corporate businesses in America. BLACKS, who want to contract with governments and corporate america business have to be certified by a member state of the National Minority Business Council. If you weren't a member through paid certification, then you may not be considered. To the governments, state, local and federal, you could not compete with majority business owners if you were not certifies. you were not certifiable.
The racism goes all the way to the top, even if you have become president of the U.S,, and the state that you were born in issues your papers.
Their job is not just filling up the 24 hour day with words.
Clinton and Kerry and Gore and others are all white and got treated just as badly. Please people, quit seeing racism as the cause for stupid actions by stupid people because all it does is perpetuate the victimization of people of color for no reason other than their color. There can be other reasons or no reasons independent of skin color. Until we move past color as the primary cause we will make no progress toward true equality.
My prayer is that we can all move on in harmony to a better place. It is just not going on RIGHT NOW!
Quoting Susan W:
Who in their right mind could think Obama could POSSIBLY have passed all those clearances if he was giving money to the Muslims or wasn't even a citizen of this country?
The news media (talking heads) are worthless -- few exceptions.
But . . .
The regressive Republican Party of No is obstructionist, mean-spirited, thuggish, religiously fanatical, scientifically ignorant, corrupt, hypocritical, xenophobic, racist, sexist, homophobic, evolution and global warming denying, oily, Medicare and Social Security slashing, union busting, authoritarian, selfish, greedy, lacking compassion, warmongering, and otherwise dangerous.
NEVER vote for Republicans or you will go down with us in 2012.
Yesterday, after the release of Obama's birth certificate I listened for as long as I could stand to three of these pseudo-teachers to see if the document made a difference in the quality of their drool. In every case, the 'birther' drum beat went on. John Cory hit the nail on the head--every conceivable excuse was offered to refute the certificate.
Therefore, I appeal to the media and to all ethical people to drop the subject. What is the GOOD of arguing this matter any longer? The Right cannot hear the truth.
This would never have been permitted to occur if it was a white guy from Hawaii born of an American Mom and a Dad from Ireland.
The corporate owned media is complicent and primarily responsible as some many have stated.
Now there is talk from the big haired blowhard to release Obama's college transcripts. Why is this racist?-Because it insinuates Obama was the beneficiary of affirmative action. The message being that he is not quite up to snuff. Not of the level of the white Ivy League blue bloods-who, of course, never had any added advantage.
What's the worst part is I don't think it's any sort of conspiracy. There's no need for a conspiracy. Too many people -in- the news business think the cable channels and corporate outlets are covering legitimate stories and that Internet news--like this site---is less credible.
I don't even know what to say to argue. I feel I must but I want to keep my job.
IT SAYS-- Thanks to 30 years of Corporate Conservative efforts on behalf of the 2% Wealthy Global Corporate Class to bring America 'SMALLER GOVERNMENT'.., they have managed to defraud 97% of Americans out of any We the People power and control over our own Country.
This was done through rampant, relentless and obsessive DEREGULATION of anything and everything that stood in the way of Global Corporations from running amok as they please in America while also allowing them to grow to Galactic Size without fear of Judicial Sanction, Taxation or Inhibition from unlimited access to the Halls of and Members of Government on all levels.
And so, ALMOST ALL MEDIA ENTERPRISES IN AMERICA ARE NOW OWNED, CONTROLLED AND EXPLOITED BY JUST A VERY FEW GLOBAL CORPORATIONS WHIC ARE UN-BEHOLDEN TO ANY CONSTITUTIONAL CONCEPT OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH EXCEPT THEIR OWN OR A FREE PRESS OR EVEN ANY KIND FAIRNESS DOCTRINE IN MEDIA, NOR TO ANY CONCEPT OF COUNTRY, PERSON, PLACE OR THING EXCEPT THEIR SHAREHOLDERS AND INCREASING THE PROFIT OF THOSE SHAREHOLDERS.
A great deal of Profit and Power now seems to be greatly concentrated in the use of 'American' Media as little more than PROPAGANDA PLATFORMS which promote Global Corporate Shareholder Agendas.
There is no "the media."
There is every kind of opinion and fact, and pseudo fact being published in the U. S. today that can be published in print, by radio or by television.
That is democracy.
Every lock-brained zealot who knows just enough to write something down on paper and impress himself seems to want to bludgeon "the media" for saying anything that doesn't suit his own razor thin line of reasoning.
Ironically the very highest and best freedom of the press I cherish is that even it can be a target of resentment and vitriol, for letting the "other side" speak.
Left leaning media ARE "the media." Right leaning media ARE "the media." Talk Radio IS "the media." Political candidates' campaign rhetoric on the tube IS "the media."
Even the naive ranting against "the media" by the occasional holder of the attitude "my-opinion-and -no-other-is-fi t-to-be-publish ed" is... "the media."
Rave on media participating media knocker. You're okay and I'm okay in speaking up.
This is America!
And if there was a doubt - how ANYBODY can take Trump sleaze seriously? It was a good time to end it ..
Did his show had such a bad rating? Was this a trick ... do not have stupid TV ...
- baby killer - is responsible - STOP KILLING NOW!
NATO forces killed four members of Gadhafi's family - 3 children - who had no ties to the government or military - like Reagan in 1986 - 4 more years to the WAR Criminal Obama - NO.
what "free World" media do not publish.
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