A Great diary from Dailykos' TocqueDeville on the Media's take of Webb Rebuttle

Sweeping Jim Webb Under the Rug
by TocqueDeville
http://www.dailykos.... my rant below the line following the excerpt

This is Wall Street sophistry at its finest.

"Swing voters"? Feeling "anxious" and "insecure"?

Notice how he removes the class component and replaces it with political baseball. But Jim Webb wasn't talking about swing voters. He never mentioned swing voters. He was talking about, and for, the 80 plus percent of Americans who are not just feeling anxious and insecure, but are fully aware that they are getting screwed by the new corporate economy.

These are people who can't afford health care, have no savings, are watching their grocery bills triple in 5 years. They are seeing their good jobs replaced with service jobs and their security lost in competition with third world labor.

But with all the ink invested in painting a pollyannic picture of the economy, and deflating Webb's populist call to arms as a cheap, political stunt, Leonhardt completely omits the far more poignant parts of the speech - wealth inequality and corporate influence. For corporate influence is the one subject that must never be discussed.

Webb's speech should have spurred a lively discussion on the issues he raised. But instead is was effectively blacked out. So determined to sweep him under the rug, our Wall Street press even forfeited, to a large extent, the opportunity to champion his forceful and resounding opposition to George Bush's Iraq policy - which is something Wall Street, for the most part, does support.

So this is the situation we find ourselves in in 2007 America: a handful of Wall Street corporocrats, who have so infiltrated our mass media that they can almost make a speech broadcast live to millions of Americans disappear.

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After work, which is one of those have no life workplaces, I work evening shifts outside everyday, and I can tell its been well over a year since I've seen the sun, If you have comments, please tell me what the sun looks like, I'm being series here....anyways, after work I took a cab home because I use public transportation. I don't usually take cabs home.  I took one home specifically to watch what Nightline would say to the then given STOU speech and rebuttle.  Liberal media my ass, its was all about Bush's environmental part of STOU. They didn't give an ounce to Webb's rebuttle. And they have the nerve to call themselves reporters.  Which is why I think, as most of you do, that we need to be taking it to the streets and the Web. 

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