Diane, a professional? Maybe in her dreams.

Sawyer's been sucking at the corporate teat for too long. Time to put the hack to bed. Sooo Saaadd.

This is not surprising to me. It seems many people do not understand what a filibuster is or how it works, nor do they understand what impeachment is and how it works. But I do think these MSM asswipes do know they are misleading the average Joe Strait.

What they're doing is called LYING. This is the same garbage that FOX pulled when they "accidentally" told the country that Mark Foley was a democrat.

The truth hurts, so they report the exact opposite.

Fuck Diane Sawyer and her Corporatist fellow-travelers in the MSM. Pick up the phone and call yer Senator and tell 'em you ain't stupid but that they are very much so if they think they are going to get away with their BushSucking and BushLoving behavior unnoticed in the Senate tonight.

Pick up the phone and speak out dammit!

The Media is so used to the Repubs screaming about fillibuster, they automatically assume Dems are behind it. Besides it's ABC and they suck anyway.

Also: lets not forget how Democratic filibustering of judicial appointments (among other issues of concern) never failed to be highlighted by MSM outlets. Normally then followed by the question of the week, "are Dems. being unnecessarily obstructionist?"

They only READ what the corporations put in front of them. They don't actually THINK about what they are saying. For us to even believe for a second that our talking heads deserve any credit for anything they say is utterly preposterous. Full blame for this blatant propaganda lies at the feet of our constantly consolidating corporations. Oh look, Murdoch bought The WSJ and Dow Jones. Just great.

these journalists and fake news crap are apparently being paid to misrepresent what is happening on the filibuster. just one more example of the desparate position the gop and the repugs are in and this kind of tactic is not unexpected.

fuck diane and fuck fox fake noice crap

Hasn't the last 6 years taught you anything? The media has been irresponsible in EVERYTHING!!!

Re: Sawyer & FOX spin on the meaning of this filibuster they're trotting out the old theme:

"When you are blatantly called on your trip, SMEAR THE CAMERA LENS WITH VASELINE".

AConfederacyofDunces Why insist that this misnomer is due to ignorance as opposed to deception?

Diane Sawyer damn well knows better. Diane Sawyer is a liar.

I would rather believe it was ignorance, Because deception would imply something worse.
Really don't know though. Maybe you're right.

I would rather believe it was ignorance, Because deception would imply something worse.
Really don’t know though. Maybe you’re right.

Richard, they get it too wrong too often. I can't go along with "oh, this is stupid policy", or "they got it wrong" anymore.
These policies/positions/statements are not stupid when held in the context of the payoff on the back end.

Disheartening, I agree.

...

Who get the cot next to Barbara Boxer? That's what I want to know! CHOMP!
.

"Today's Diane Sawyer,
Mean, mean bitch,
modern day whore-ier
of the filibuster switch"

With all apologies to Neal Peart...

fuck lieberman!! Let that smuch sleep on the damn floor with a sleeping bag!!
i mean after all its good enough for folks that had evacuate thier homes in times of a ermergncy,, isint whats happing in Iraq (pronounced E-raq ) the same thing? or what happend to the folks in greesburg kansas? or the the folks in the gulf states after katrina slammed em?

STOP with the pampering of PUBLIC OFFICER holders!! they were elected by the public to uphold the laws. Enough with making sure thier whims are taken care of first as you and mine are over looked!!!

Samuel Abram “Today’s Diane Sawyer,
Mean, mean bitch,
modern day whore-ier
of the filibuster switch”

With all apologies to Neal Peart…

He would be proud.

Lieberman...this supposedly highly moral man, this non-partisan figure, this passionate pontificator on "values" ....

In a memorable exchange on NBC's Meet the Press on April 25, 1999, at the height of NATO's onslaught on Yugoslavia, Pat Buchanan questioned Lieberman on the bombing of CIVILIAN targets in Serbia.

Lieberman had no answer other than to urge US escalation: "I hope the air campaign, even if it does not convince Milosevic to order his troops out of Kosovo, will so devastate his economy, which it's doing now, so ruin the lives of his people, that they will rise up and throw him out."

Terrorizing civilians, destroying their economy, ruining their lives so as to get them to change their government is a war crime. That’s the Lieberman approach to foreign policy.

We need to fear people like Lieberman.

How much did the GOP pay these pinheads to frame the debate for them? And they say the media is liberal!

MamaLynn @ 25:

http://abcnews.go.com/Site/page?id=3052660

Link to the feedback for ABC news/GMA. I just left them a rather forceful, "you make me sick with your purposeful misleading of the public" kind of message. Let's swamp them:)

Thanks for website. I too dropped them a
"heated" email and I hope others will do likewise.

Time to rename it Lieberman's War.

Judging from his speech tonight, he has embraced it with his whole being.

After days of calling this a possible "marathon debate" on every single news outlet and now a democrat filibuster, there is absolutely no doubt this is a mainstream attack on the truth. I have been checking in on CNN, MSNBC, & ABC throughout the day, I have yet to see it correctly framed.

I did finally see CNN correct the Obama donor flap. He has been counting everyone who buys a hat, bumper sticker or pin as a donor. This has caused accusations of inflated donor numbers repeated throughout the day. This is required by law because the money goes into his campaign coffers. Of course they correct it at 10:30 PM.

Again, I have to ask the Ct. voters...."Are you happy and proud that you
elected Joe LIE=berman to represent you?". What a prick

The media is ruined. Conspiracies don't even have to take place... places like CNN kowtow just because Fox News will call them names and hurt their image.

Buying The War pretty much exposes how dead mass media journalism is

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

Doggiebobo @ 49:

Snowball @ 45:

Why aren't the Democrats calling loudly that the American people demand an up or down vote on the occupation of Iraq? It's what the Reptilescum party would have said.

The majority of the Ameican people have already said they want an "up or down" vote,
but "we the people" have not written the procedural laws in the U.S. Senate, so really
have no say in how they proceed..

I am, of course, referring directly to the rhetoric the Republicans employed in the fight over Bush's far right judicial nominees.

Let me see, Lie-berman is now saying we must stay in Iraq until mid-year 2008, or
another 9 or 10 months, so that means that only about 900 or 1,000 more of our
military personnal will die and another 5,600 will be wounded. You fucker, I wish
you were young enough to serve and I'd personally deliver you to the front-line.

SnowbalA Richard Head @ 39:

SnowballABC and Fox aren’t alone in spinning this for the Republicans. Take a Look at this from McClatchy:

Senate Democrats plan faux filibuster to pressure Republicans on Iraq

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/hom…..18016.html

This is a coordinated Corporate Media hatchet job.

I don’t think anybody in the media knows what Fillibuster means. That, or they are all against us.

/not a conspiracy nut
//strange though(not for FOX)

Conspiracy theory has nothing to do with it. The Corporate Media has a vested finacial interest in the political fortunes of the Republican party and its ideology of corporate deregulation. Follow the money. If you think otherwise, you haven’t been paying attention for at least the last 12 years.

12 years? It's been going on since Nixon. When he resigned I was watching the broadcast on rabbit ears. That's how long this shit has been going on. The media made him out to be a "Saint" that had lost his way. Very rarely mentoned that he would have been Impeached otherwise.

My point is, I don't believe(in this case) that anyone in the Media(except Olberman) knows the meaning of the word or they just got it screwed up.
Doesn't excuse shitty reasearch though. And I'm not defending them either.

Alot longer that 12 years.

The corps must be paying these anchors huge bucks to seel their souls and act so stupid.

Cute. Reuters is calling it a "procedural roadblock", by the dems.

54 A Richard Head

You're correct, it has been going on for a long time. It's just gotten especially virulent since the Reagan years when they got rid of the Fairness Doctrine. Then it really escalated into naked right wing partisanship during the Clinton years. If it happens once, it could be a mistake, when it happens systematically, you can be pretty sure it isn't.

The media is only as Liberal as the ones who own it.

They gave Edward R. Murrow a hard time too during the McCarthy hearings too.

Good night and good luck.

Can we get a clip of Sawyer saying that? Do we know if she corrected herself then or later?

All of the comments on this site complaining that the Democrats don't have a spine is the result of people believing the MSM conservative spin. Of course most of the MSM targets the Democrats and underreports the activities of the Republicans, who are currently earning the dividends in the form of the public's low approval of Congress.

It amazes me how many liberals can simultaneously acknowledge the huge bias of most of the MSM and be ultra critical of Republican dirty tricks, while repeating the Republican spoon fed lies about the Democrats.

Diane Sawyer belongs in prison just as much as the rest of the corrupt Republican party does. The MSM has been the main propaganda tool for the RNC for decades now, and when the people finally take back their government, they will not forgive such as Diane Sawyer.

Sawyer was a favorite in the Nixon whitehouse and carried the handle 'the girl who tried to stab nixon' ... I wont bother to explain.

Have you read John Deans book Conservatives without conscience? I suggest you do ... it is about Diane Sawyer.

Bob Roberts I agree, and I'll tell you how I see it. The Democrats have been, since January, painting a nice picture of just how screwed up the Republicans are. Each bill or procedure is another brush stroke on the painting. Enough brush strokes and you finish it.
I'm not sure who sets the agenda for the Dems. but he's doing a heck of a job(no pun intended) at it. Everything the wingnuts shoot down is one more nail in the coffin for 08 and the future.
The Dems have a spine, it's just been years since they have been able to use it.

Politics have never been more Politcal than they are today.(not mine, but true)

Unfortunately, liberals always (at least to me) seem less unified than conservatives. (Presumably liberals have more idealists). The Democratic opposition to the Republicans is constantly hindered by the media and by fratricidal attacks from the left.

Bob Roberts The Democratic opposition to the Republicans is constantly hindered by the media and by fratricidal attacks from the left.

You hit that on the nail head my friend. If we (the Democrats) had half of the cohesion that the Republicans have we would be a force. Unfortunately most Liberals are Individualist and not the types to just follow along, like the Authoritarians on the right.

natas @ 15:

sawyer was she the broken down old GOP showgirl in the big dick nixon white house

Correction: sawyer SHE IS the broken down old GOP showhorse in the big dick nixon white house

Wow, I hope those still up got to see/hear Senator Menedez from N.Jersey.
He was outstanding..

When is everyone who reads these blogs finally going to realize the MSM works for the Republican Party. It's pretty obvious to you all by now. Right? Now the question is: What are we going to do about it?

To bad you didn't read your own story the point is she worked in two previous republican white houses she is now part of the OBSTRUCTIONIST tactics to stall and minimize the efforts of the Congress and the Democratic Senate. The OBSTRUCTIONISTS on the right talking directions from the RACIST NAZIS COMMITTEE(RNC) and the FASCIST NEOCONs' are doing everything in there power to try and contain this.

The ANTI AMERICAN PARTY that is the republicans who despise and HATE AMERICANS and what they stand for are showing their true colous. They even have the CONGRESSIONAL KKK going full tilt to through diversion on this topic.

Remember last year when these OBSTRUCTIONISTS wanted a UP and DOWN VOTE that the way it should be according to them any way notice how these GUTLESS,SPINELESS, COWARDS and TRAITORS are lying, twisting and manipulating the news now, THESE COWARDS are like the wh. SPINELESS.

Quit telling them what you are going to do and just do it. Remember you are warding off another country invasion that Iraq is the cover for. Anybody keeping a eye on BLACKWATER.

A Richard Head @ 74:

Bob Roberts The Democratic opposition to the Republicans is constantly hindered by the media and by fratricidal attacks from the left.

You hit that on the nail head my friend. If we (the Democrats) had half of the cohesion that the Republicans have we would be a force. Unfortunately most Liberals are Individualist and not the types to just follow along, like the Authoritarians on the right.

That is the problem, people dont understand what is happening.

Our system isnt supposed to work like that. You are NOT describing the system created by the founders. We are supposed to be represented by elected officials who serve the interests of the state and congressional districts - two state wide senators and one congressman for your district. Three people.

The system is currently a hybrid between a politburo and the ancient roman senate. It is broken - I think beyond repair.

Even you are taking the same stance as the republicans - them or us - my team over their team. That is how it is currently working and IT IS NOT CORRECT. Our system was designed for coalitions between districts and states with similar interests independentof parties. The truth is, our system was never meant to have parties.

This is not a representative government. Whether you like it or not - you elect people to serve the party on a nation level - democrats and republicans. Neither party serves you, your district or your state.

Its party warfare because it has become about the party - just like the old soviet union.

Then let's continue to filibuster the fuck outta the filibusterers. Whatever, and then impeach the shit out of the whole lot of gasbags.

anon That is the problem, people dont understand what is happening.

Our system isnt supposed to work like that. You are NOT describing the system created by the founders. We are supposed to be represented by elected officials who serve the interests of the state and congressional districts - two state wide senators and one congressman for your district. Three people.

The system is currently a hybrid between a politburo and the ancient roman senate. It is broken - I think beyond repair.

Even you are taking the same stance as the republicans - them or us - my team over their team. That is how it is currently working and IT IS NOT CORRECT. Our system was designed for coalitions between districts and states with similar interests independentof parties. The truth is, our system was never meant to have parties.

This is not a representative government. Whether you like it or not - you elect people to serve the party on a nation level - democrats and republicans. Neither party serves you, your district or your state.

Its party warfare because it has become about the party - just like the old soviet union.

You may very well be right but the way you sound we will wake up in the morning and there will be some sort of Utopia. Where all the political problems we face will be gone. I have been around long enough to know that's not how it works. You take the party you have and fight the fight with it. Just because you want change doesn't mean you abandon your party until something better comes along. Sorry, but it doesn't work that way. If you chose that road, the party you support will never win an election(that was our problem for years, and still is) . At least the party you support has some interest in your values. The alternative sucks(repub victory) so you go with what you got. Once your party is in charge, then you work toward change.It's sort of difficult to have change when we can not win elections.

IMO that's what makes the wingnuts a tough party to beat at election time. Cohesion. That or there is a lot of stupid people out there(probably true).

A Richard Head @ 88:

anon That is the problem, people dont understand what is happening.

Our system isnt supposed to work like that. You are NOT describing the system created by the founders. We are supposed to be represented by elected officials who serve the interests of the state and congressional districts - two state wide senators and one congressman for your district. Three people.

The system is currently a hybrid between a politburo and the ancient roman senate. It is broken - I think beyond repair.

Even you are taking the same stance as the republicans - them or us - my team over their team. That is how it is currently working and IT IS NOT CORRECT. Our system was designed for coalitions between districts and states with similar interests independentof parties. The truth is, our system was never meant to have parties.

This is not a representative government. Whether you like it or not - you elect people to serve the party on a nation level - democrats and republicans. Neither party serves you, your district or your state.

Its party warfare because it has become about the party - just like the old soviet union.

You may very well be right but the way you sound we will wake up in the morning and there will be some sort of Utopia. Where all the political problems we face will be gone. I have been around long enough to know that's not how it works. You take the party you have and fight the fight with it. Just because you want change doesn't mean you abandon your party until something better comes along. Sorry, but it doesn't work that way. If you chose that road, the party you support will never win an election(that was our problem for years, and still is) . At least the party you support has some interest in your values. The alternative sucks(repub victory) so you go with what you got. Once your party is in charge, then you work toward change.It's sort of difficult to have change when we can not win elections.

IMO that's what makes the wingnuts a tough party to beat at election time. Cohesion. That or there is a lot of stupid people out there(probably true).

Not a utopia - a nightmare. By electing people that are running to serve the party you will perpetuate the problem of elected officials serving the party and not you. Pretending that there is no problem and playing the game to win will not fix the problem.

Party power must be checked - both parties - to fix the party. A wise post was made several days ago in which it was said that given the federal corruption - of design and purpose - the main line of defense might the the states Attorney General in holding elected state officials (who serve in washington) accountable to the state and its citizens. This is likely an area that Karl Rove hasnt perverted yet. If a 'movement' could be started at the state level independent of political party to bring the authority and power of the states to bear on state officials its possible that change could be accomplished.

An example might be - here in Arizona - the impeachment movement against Senator McCain. A state based movement that could have significant national impact. And for example, while Randal Cunningham was prosecuted by federal prosecutors, I'm not entirely certain that he couldnt have been prosecuted by California - the state Attorney General. This isnt about one party or the other - its about breaking the back of the usurping influence of national political parties. Which replace you as the constituent of the elected official.

A Richard Head @ 89:

And as far as "represented by elected officals". Be real. we know better than that(unless you're rich) not one politican can really understand our problems, anymore than we can understand theirs. But, that will never change no matter what we do, so I would rather have a bad Democrat than ANYRepublican.

/but that's just me
//to each his own, as long as it's a Dem.that's elected.

I was a delegate for Mo Udall when he ran for president. You would be surprised how 'thin' the process is. You speak of politicians as if they were born to it. Trust me in this ... the main reason they get away with most of what they get away with is most people dont show up to the various meetings. The small number that do - and it is small - decide things. Sad but true. I wish it was mandatory that people had to attend a townhall (or equivalent) a few times a year and that various meetings of importance were televised.

At my alma mater (UofA) each year - while I was there - they ran a candidate for student body president named Dr. No, a nilist anarchist - in theory. (He was a fictional and sarcastic candidate) His campaign slogan was 'no vote is a vote for no'. And each year more people didnt vote than voted and he was elected by a landslide.

Friend of Oprah. Spend money ..be dumb on losing your country to corporations/fascists. I've got mine. Maybe you should think positive and not be so poor and nappy headed.

MSNBC is getting in on this action too. Check out their lead story right here http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19797695/

The very first sentence starts off with "Senate Democrats staged an all-night debate on the Iraq war in a dramatic attempt to wear down Republicans who refuse to vote to begin to bring troops home by fall."

It is just technically factual enough to be considered accurate but worded so that it sounds like the Dems are doing the filibustering. Is this what Colbert means by "truthiness?"

Funny:

Here's what Reid wanted. He knew that he didn't have enough votes for a quorum; he only has 49 Democrats available, with Tim Johnson's disability. Reid counted on Republicans forcing an end to the session by having a single member present to challenge for a quorum. No votes could take place without one, including the instruction motion to the Sergeant-at-Arms to arrest recalcitrant members and drag them back to the chamber. That would have allowed Reid and the Democrats to accuse Republicans of dodging the debate, calling them cowards to take the spotlight off of their insistence on retreat.

Many expected the Republicans to do just that, but it turns out that Mitch McConnell is a little smarter than Harry Reid. Instead of denying Reid a quorum, the Republicans showed up for the debate, perhaps charged up by John McCain's earlier speech on the floor. Once Reid figured out that the Republicans would not give him the satisfaction of walking out the door, he caved. In fact, Reid didn't even bother to attend his own No Snooze Until We Lose party after the first instruction motion, choosing to hit the sack instead while Republicans took the podium all night long.

The cloture vote has been scheduled for around 11 am this morning. The overnight session has done nothing except to annoy Republicans into a more unified caucus, and to make Harry Reid look like a fool. One might have expected a Senator from Nevada to recognize a busted flush when he saw it.

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