There's no hope left until we have a media that isn't squarely in the back pockets of the ruling elite. And it's not just Fox.

Until then I think I might just bow out for a while, chill out watching "I Love Lucy" re-runs and wait for the Superbowl tonight.

This is all too depressing. Why a good man like Obama sought after this job, I'll never understand. They will eat him alive.

Does that mean we should be able to assist the pundits in their suicides?

I would like these right wingers to explain to me how CEOs who lead their companies into Billion dollar losses in any given year are entitled to exhorbitant paychecks. Just how is it that these executives are "deserving" and worthy of millions and millions of dollars?

I get all my news from the web these days because there is little to gain from watching the continued nonsense of a press which assisted the last administration in going to war falsely and continues to distort the truth to the benefit of their corporate overlords.

It does make it a lot easier to see just how slanted these sorry bastards have become. They bit off a little more than they can chew when EVERYTHING about Bush went to shit. People figured out awhile back that the steak sandwich the mainstream media was trying to serve up was really a shit sandwich. C&L is a big beneficiary of the loss of honest news as are many of us so called liberal bloggers.

Enjoy.

Vote with your dollars: boycott fox and it's sponsors. Dry up their revenue stream and they will change their song in mid-chorus.

then he should use the bully pulpit and cow both the Democrats and GOP with the one thing that the elites fear most....it's time to call this what it is and has been for 30 years....a CLASS WAR!

The elites in this country have ridden the gravy train for 30 years...and robbed the train in the last 6 months with the rush through without a vote, the world is coming to an end, $700 billion handout to millionaires and corporations. They then took OUR money..PUBLIC MONEY...and paid bonuses for themselves for their great ability to destroy not only their companies, but our economy and possibly our country.

Enough is enough. Maybe if the rich start running scared in this country...things will change.

what do we need...a firewall between investment banks and commercial banks...remember that nasty little piece of legislation that the conservatives said was the bane to capitalism...it was called Glass-Steagall...we need limits on salaries for CEOs, since these people no longer respect the RULES of capitalism...the rules that say...if you do a bad job...if you lose money for your stockholders...you get FIRED...and your companies DIE...you don't get a do-over in the free market.

puleeeease...tell that to the dinosaurs. If your company is inefficient and unprofitable...it dies. PERIOD.

If the government is so worried about companies amassing too much size...then LEGISLATE against it...put limits on company size and subsequently...a limit on CEO pay.

I love when the wingnuts start screaming how we can't be like China.

Yeah...all those exports, new infrastructure, growing standard of living, growing economy...yeah...we certainly don't want that to happen here.

Here is the sad thing about this reflexive media position opposing Obama: it doesn't even do the corporations behind the media propaganda any good.

I mean, the corporations hated Clinton in part because they wanted to put Bush, or someone like him - someone manipulable and obedient - into the White House. So the media developed its campaign of hatred against Clinton, and the 2000 election was rigged, and Gore lost and Bush won. And if you hate the propaganda media and the corporate masters behind them, well, at least their selfish, power-hungry motives were understandable. Evil, but understandable.

But the media, the corporations behind them, and the Republican party which is the political apparatus of the corporate interests, they have no plan. It is clear that more than just the economy collapsed last autumn: so did any sign of goals or coordination among the corporate class.

So now they're all acting out of reflex and instinct, but without a plan. Fox News hates Obama because, well, because he's a DEMOCRAT, as if being a Democrat or a Republican really makes a difference to a corporation. The corporations want the freedom to make money without regulation, without limit, and without taxes: that's what they want. Obama doesn't have to be their foe. A pragmatist, he's certainly not going to give them everything they want, but at the same time they have some power and he has power, and he has reached out to them to find a confluence of interests, and they have reflexively slapped his hand away.

The confusion in the Obama Administration right now must be palpable. If the Republican ideology is that every problem can be solved with a tax cut, Obama's ideology is clearly that reason and a mutual confluence of interest can bring parties together to work for a common goal.

But the corporatists are beyond that. They have no direction, no strategy, and they're looking for leadership to a fat radio shock-jock whose most influential days were during the Reagan Administration. Obama's outreach is both a way for him to increase his own support, but is also the only salvation available to the fractured shards of the Right that put Bush in power. Obama is reaching out a hand, and the corporatists, the Republicans, and the media are fighting each other for the privilege of biting it.

And what will happen is, Obama will realize that there is no working with these madmen until their rage over losing power has worked itself out. And he will get his 60th Senate vote somehow. And he will press forward without them, and they will be left in the dust. And in their minds, it will be HIS fault for superceding their entitled place of power, and not THEIR fault for failing to take the deals that he offered them.

And meanwhile they work to harm Obama, they work to harm the nation, and worst of all, they work to harm themselves, simply because they are too blinded by arrogance and entitlement to realize that they are no longer in power.

The MSM is functioning like BushCo Dead enders. They do not what to come to terms with bush crimes or their own complicity. It was interesting start, but now it's getting useless and embarrasing. Is it not time for the MSM to close down for re-tooling? I'll watch again when they clean out the last of the Bushies from my TV.

Follow the misadventures of a group of Wall Street backstabbing greedmeisters looking for work on Fox News as commentators. Watch the hijinx as Neil Cavuto strokes their tender egos within an inch of their lives. See the paper tigers of the modern Republican party try to eviscerate Pres. Obama with arguments as deadly and substantial as a plastic fork and spoon. Laugh with the rest of America as these fools troll and cavort around like the twits on Monty Python.

Now that's comedy!

I say we should listen to what Al Pacino's character on 'Scent of a Woman' suggest.

when things REALLY begin to get tough..specially during a long hot summer...the people will be out in the street this time.

When they can't feed their kids or keep a roof over their head...trust me...they'll get motivated.

Why are wall street robber barons entitled to these bonuses? They were promised them. They are told - this is you salary (which is line item that shareholders can look at in advance) and this will be your bonus and it will be on a order of magnitude greater than your salary - bonuses cannot be a line item because they are an unknown quantity at the time. A scam.

They feel entitled to them. The system of the large bonuses sounds good at first - good year - reward that with a good bonus but when things go sour then their compensation is less than promised. Let's face it and with all due respect to the "geniuses of wall street" - it ain't hard for a bank to make money when the economy is in a upswing - lotsa transactions means lotsa commissions - it's not rocket science - then add in some ponzi type derivative scheme or leverage the shit out of every dollar of equity you have and these crooks feel entitled to these bonuses just as the republicans feel entitled to getting their way in congress - well the system is broke and they broke it - just as the republicans did.

The way the system works is based on how tall can you stack stuff - instead of a solid pyramid with a good foundation you stack things up as high and thin as you can - sure it blow over in the slightest wind but the guy with the yardstick who is going to measure it and calculate your bonus from that height doesn't care - it's other people's money anyway.

They are in denial/panic and trying to grab what they can as the ship sinks stomping over old ladies to get to the dry land of their posh early retirement.
The system is broke - as Buffet said you don't know who is swimming naked til the tide goes out. That system on relying on the tide is broken cause that's too late. Shareholders need to start demanding accountability - articles of incorporation need to amended - oversight needs to finally be implemented not just on the Federal level but the corporate level - a fool and their money are soon parted.

I'm sorry did I just type all that?

The American Corporate owned and run media is desperate to convince the ignorant masses that the world will end if they get government (socialized) medicine.

They face a daunting uphill battle. People are hurting so bad they are desperate to try anything now - even in the face of the relentless drumbeat of the media's ridiculous claim that this will bring about the downfall of America.

Re-Thuglics really DON'T get it. They don't understand pain and suffering and desperation. These are of course, all privileged persons telling those with NOTHING - that they are better off as they are.
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Delusion is a sad thing to watch. These people need years of psychoanalysis.

dude number 1 is freaky looking.

the republicans are the absolute whiniest group of neanderthals left on this planet. that's a bit severe for polite discourse but what are we supposed to think when fox is so obviously in bed with its capitalist controllers. the media in part belongs to the public common and good and we must get back to how that is so. as we lose touch these ripe ideologies will begin to erode the public good and knowledge. when our experience becomes ruled by our lower drives we will create structures just bad for life. fox is scratching out codes for the free market and creating possible realities. it is a distortion of truth more than a lie but they have yet to explain to the mass audience the actual theory why say, low taxes for the rich are good. what is a reasonable period of time to know the proof?

Of course. It's the fault of the guy who's been in office 10 days. That makes perfect sense. Funny how everything that happened in Bush's first term (and beyond) was Clinton's fault but Obama is already getting the blame after less than 2 weeks.

...And Bush was making it a better place????