It's All About Me (MSM), Isn't It, Charlie Gibson?

Great comment,Christine. The "major Media" is definitely a BAD HABIT for American consumers... America's couch-bound TV consumers.... Unfortunately, much of this "bad habit journalism" is to a great extent the product of down-right shoddy Democratic leadership and timid candidates, who could not even try to hold Mr. Bush to ANY of his 2000 campaign pledges. - When Mr. Bush tried to ram his most PARTISAN nominees down the Democrats' throats in early 2001, the Dem. Senate leaders should have united IN FRONT OF A TV screen PLAYING VIDEO of Bush's "I PLEDGE A MORE BIPARTISAN TONE IN WASHINGTON" comments (made at each and every one of his 2000 campaign events and speeches), and FORCED the Major Media morons to re-examine those Bush pledges. When Democrats don't DEFINE THE ISSUES & STAND UP for those Americans under assault by Bush-GOP policies, the "major media" has the LUXURY of focusing on the trivial, the inane, the DISTRACTION ISSUE.... ....the one-party rule tactic of elminating the opposition by character attacks that drag down the opponent.... As Al Gore _ALLOWED HIMSELF_ to become the victim of 1,000 cuts during Campaign 2000. VP Gore (perhaps a slave to his own perceived dignity of office) REFUSED to point out the signature agenda of then Texas Gov. George W. Bush: budget DEFICITS, SLASHING social programs (including the up-and-running pre-school, after-school, and health-care for Texas minority & disadvantaged school-children programs, proven to save taxpayers money in the long run), in favor of budget-busting TAX CUTS FOR THE Texas WEALTHY. There are FOUR MAIN ISSUES in campaign 2008: The Economy, national security and the war in Iraq, our long-term environmental health, and Health Care. ANY Democratic candidate, at any level (much less at the million-dollars-an-hour presidential level) MUST BE ABLE to take ANY INANE distraction question, and TURN IT BACK TO THOSE 4 issues, INSTANTLY! Here's a simple example: "Senator is the fact that you don't wear a flag pin indicate that you are not patriotic?" Correct answer: "The flag, and flag-pin, are SYMBOLS of us Americans UNITING TOGETHER TO FORM A MORE PERFECT UNION, to form a stronger bond that will allow us to provide for the SECURITY _and_ COMMON WELFARE of ALL Americans. Some folks try to HIJACK that symbol for the exclusive use of the national security issue, while they ignore the "common good" part that the flag also stands for. And their approach to national security may not be that good for America, either. I'm glad you asked that question, Charlie, because I believe that the flag is a great symbol of AMERICANS WORKING TOGETHER, and not just one narrow group exploiting it for their own benefit on the national security issue." SEE HOW EASY THAT WAS ??!! IN a lighter vein, check out this great cartoon of the US press/media as a pack of hound dogs, contendedly loafing around Master Bush's feet as he reclines in front of the fireplace in the library of his hunting estate. http://www.oilempire.us/graphics/goodpuppy.jpg

For the past few hours MSNBC-the-network has obviously given orders to each of it's hacks/hosts to defend ABC fervently. One young female dimwit actually argued with the Washington times, who thought the debate was a substanceless sham, "I get emails from people all the time asking why Obama isn't wearing a flag pin". Well, we know where her fingers have been.

But here's the root cause of Hillary's problems that a million hacks like her and Gibson can't repair:
Had Hillary, say, 25 minutes into the immaterial bullshit coming out of ABC, stopped and said angrily to ABC -as she did with the rant of "Shame on You" to Obama in Ohio - and said "Shame on You ABC", for turning this important debate into a joke..., all, and I mean ALL would have been instantly forgiven of Hillary.
For had she offered one simple brief moment of humility toward her competitor, had she shown her "leadership skills" and stood for him for just that one selfless minute, Hillary may well have succeeded in possibly giving her what she wants.

But she didn't, couldn't, wouldn't never has and never will be capable of one shred of decency to anyone without a string attached.
And Bill proved what true birds of a feather they are when he came out today and said "Hillary was great".
Nationalism is not terrorism. And an adversary is not an enemy.

Depending on how it is viewed, last night's "debate" was more like a gang bashing on Mr. Obama. It was a 3 on 1 with Charlie & George lobbing lopsided get-Barack-and-make-him-squirm with the chirping in by the unstable Hillary who made it a 4 on 1 acting in proxy for McCain. This was sub intelligent poor excuse for a debate exercise. One more thing---if the guilt-by-association game is being played out on Obama, let's play it on Hillary. She becomes an impeachable philandering liar because she has lived with one. Shame on her and the Dems who just may have snatched defeat from the jaws of victory and just may have shot themselves in the foot in allowing the Hillary Republican smear tactics to go on. She cries, embellishes the truth, and has memory problems. I thought she was post menopausal, but she acts like she is still going through the change. Do we want her in charge of the most powerful military on earth and answering the 3 am call? I think not. But the point may be moot. Last night was the capper and McCain is now the new leader because of the huge Hillary ego and Charlie and yet another George. A good, intelligent, composed, cool, articulate, logical man is being dragged through the mud by Hillary and the MSM, and the US and the world are the losers.