Nevertheless, Thom Hartmann makes a good case that Democrats should have confronted the media for calling it “gridlock” instead of “obstructionism” and a host of other journalistic crimes. The Democrats never went on offense he says, in pointing out that it was the Republicans who had caused the problems they were blaming Obama for. He argues that the Democrats should have called out the Republicans for sabotaging the president in a way that the media could not ignore.
Tall order. But they have to start doing it.
“Back in January of 2009 – Republican leaders invested in a plan to sabotage the Obama presidency at every chance possible. On Tuesday – they got a pretty good return on that investment.”
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Unfortunately, you would have to have a working, non-captive press to be able to point out tea party maneuvers and expect them to be taken seriously.
Were the Democrats to have pushed this in the press the story would have become that the Democrats had become unhinged conspiracy theorists. Need I remind you of Hillary’s “vast right-wing conspiracy?” She was right of course, but it became the stuff of jokes in great part thanks to the non-working press in this country.
We owe a lot to Thom Hartmann and his courage in bringing up so many issues that few others will touch. Mandatory listening in our house on http://www.chicagoprogressivetalk.com at 11AM
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