THE MEDIA EDITION: ISSUE 83, VOLUME 111
SHITASTIC!
by Malik Isasis



Shit’tas’tik, adjective, the exact opposite of fantastic, an observation typically delivered in an acerbic manner: President George W. Bush is shitastic.

CORPORATE HEADLINES: Poll: Public losing trust in Obama, Six months in, President Obama's poll numbers slipping, Obama popularity lower than Bush's at six-month mark: poll, Obama's poll numbers drop--you get the picture, right?



With FOX News leading the goose step, corporate media continues to be a bastion of misinformation on health care reform, and then report President Obama’s poll numbers as if their misleading biased reporting had absolutely nothing to do with Americans being ill informed. Where do you suppose the corporate media are going with this poll number theme?

It is clear they are torpedoing health care reform by constantly giving Republicans a disproportionate voice. The corporate media has been resuscitating the corpse of the Republican Party since Obama’s inauguration, six months into his presidency and they are seriously discussing Republican candidates for the 2012 election.

Fresh out of ideas for a generation, Republicans have come to represent a party that has become exceptional at the perpetual campaign, stoking the hatred in the lowest common denominator of the population (about a 33%) through the extensive web of its echo chamber, talk radio, and Fox News, and planted political operatives in the mainstream media who proudly carry their message. Since the Great Depression, Republicans have shown that they’re utterly incompetent in governance, which is known as the Peter Principle, being advance or promoted to a job for which they are unable to accomplish due to incompetence. Six months into their congressional and presidential loss, the Republicans have loss their fucking minds.

The people who brought us the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, no-bid military contracts, and the disappearance of 12 billion dollars during the early phase of the Iraqi War are being promoted as a legitimate counter weight to the Democratic Party. That’s just shitastic!

My criticism of Obama has been the criticism I have charged the whole of the Democratic Party with, and that is accepting Republican talking points as a baseline for debating policy; accepting that Republicans are better with the economy; accepting that Republicans are better on national defense. Just because they say so doesn’t make it true. Reality is my witness. Democrats have internalized Republican hatred of them and over compromised, but when they compromise, the corporate media and Republicans call them “flip-floppers” or weak with no core values. When will the Democrats understand that Republicans are out to destroy them? Democrats will eventually wither away because of their inability to stand up to the corporate pirates who pay their election bills, and the Republicans who approval they constantly seek.

The corporate media understands that when Republicans are in power, they benefit. So don't be surprised that Obama and the Democratic congress take the fall for the last 8 years of Republican failure in governance--e.g. the banking system, and two occupations, and unemployment rates. After six months the media has already begun trying to raise the Republicans from their political graves by making them seem like the Greek prophetess Cassandra, on bailouts, and fiscal responsibility--only in Bush world, does failure equals success and that any of this would make any sense.

Corporate media, and a dumb ass populace mean a return of the Republican Party in 2010?

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