Press knew Bush WH wasn't investigating Plame outing and still PROTECTED him

[blm]

when Kerry brought it up throughout the campaign. How often did Kerry say that Bush couldn't even find the leaker in the WH so how could we trust him to search for Bin Laden? Just about every appearance he made I heard that point made in some form.

Why did the corporate media refuse to take up that question throughout the entire campaign?

The media ALREADY knew the WH was lying about their involvement, but why did they choose to look the other way after Bush specifically said the WH would investigate who leaked and hold them accountable? The questions for WH security chief today about the promised investigation shouldn't have had to be asked by Waxman today - it should've been asked EVERYDAY throughout 2003 and 2004 by the WH presscorps.

Media never PRESSED Bush or his spokespeople throughout that time on this investigation. THAT is why the lies about it never mattered to them.

The next investigation needs to be about the COMPLICITY of the media in this entire matter.

Time for corporate media to be held accountable for their part in protecting the White House for so long on this matter.

[MLFerrell]

1. "Why did the corporate media refuse to take up that question throughout the entire campaign?"

Because they're the CORPORATE media. $ > truth.

[DemoTex]

5. A sickness is on our Land, and you hit the nail on the head.

$ > Truth
$ > Peace
$ > Health

[blm]

8. $ > Children

$ > Future

[Virginia Dare]

2. Same reason that they cover for his..

obvious drinking problem, for his shirking of his national guard duty, for two stolen elections, for his involvement in the cover-up of 9/11, and for any other number of illegal and treasonous acts. They are treasonous bastards too!

[blm]

10. No doubt the corporate media is ripe for their own hearings on everything from 2000

election coverage and every day since.

[Octafish]

3. History will judge Corporate McPravda as co-Traitors.

If the presstitutes did their job, monkey and his gang never would have occupied the Oval Office.

Thank you for remembering, blm.

[MLFerrell]

6. You are absolutely right, Octafish.

Traitors all.

[blm]

7. Hopefully REAL HISTORY will have a chance to be heard some day soon.

But, it will never happen until this corporate media is forced to account and their complicity revealed.

[Virginia Dare]

11. Tragically true, Octafish..

it doesn't much help us now, though does it? :(

[blm]

16. But it also doesn't help if we shut up and let them get away with it - and that is why many of us

DUers persist in demanding accountability from the media, and at the very least, let them know that we are not fooled and will continue to inform our neighbors and communities until the media ENDS its complicity with BushInc and starts doing its job for the people.

[Supersedeas]

4. the GOP/Media Establishment did not want this to be an election issue

[blm]

9. Sure - especially as it would upset their narrative of Bush the 'straightshooting man of integrity

whose first duty is to this nation's security' - as per their Karl Rove talking points.

[Robbien]

12. Why are all the media saying Plame testimony "shown little light"

on the situation?

They are still carrying water for this administration.

[Cha]

14. And they will always carry WATER for

the repukes until they are made accountable by We The People!

Until it doesn't help their Bottomless line, anymore.

[Cha]

13. The US corporatemediawhores need

to be subpoenaed by Henry Waxman..you know there's a fat cat up that tree.

[blm]

17. Heh....I think there are FIVE of them, and they all have leashes that lead their way

to the fists of BushInc.

[Generator]

15. Clearly simply they put their own personal pockets first

while in denial, claiming a litany of reasons. The truth and the higher calling of the profession are ignored. If the point of their profession is buckets of money, a nice house, the best schools for the kids, public "fame", and access to the most powerful and wealthy men and women in America, well they had that. They did not have, no matter how much they lie to themselves, and continue to lie to themselves, have journalistic integrity or even seem to understand what you and I (even housewives) that there is more to your soul and a higher calling.

I see them as in massive denial if not absolute liars. Shameless to the end.

[Solly Mack]

18. kiss the king and attack the peasants - until the king is bloodied

then attack the king and kiss the peasants...until the next king comes along

all the while pretending you are on the side of the truth the whole time

speaking of the Press...

[spanone]

19. This is why they continue to lie.

[blm]

20. Exactly - media has let them get away with their lies for so long, they had no interest in STOPPING

even when those lies finally blow up on them in the few judicial follow throughs.

Still, the press still overwhelmimgly favors the WH narrative even AFTER the lies are proven.

[KharmaTrain]

21. The Power And Acess Game...Pure & Simple

After years of being around journalists and talking heads, one common thread I've found is their extreme desire to be "liked" and be considered "popular" or relevant...and the way to climb that ladder can be two-fold. The first is the hard way...digging up the dirt, taking the chances, fighting the "establishment" and earning a reputation through years of hard work...usually long and lonely hours at little or no pay. Or, one can get into the "beltway game"..."cultivate" sources and build a reputation by getting the quote or spin out the fastest. These are cookies the booooshies have long played and it's food that is still highly addictive inside the Beltway.

The corporate media has a lot at stake in the '04 elections. Check out the FCC oversight hearings this weekend for just one sample of what stakes the large communicaions, publishing and broadcasting corporates had in keeping boooshie in power and the repugnicans in control of the Congress. Combine this self interest with a beltway punditry more concerned with ego and access than truth...and they were rewarded for being such good lap dogs. Inversely, they ignored our calls as "iritants" cause we didn't have anything to offer...if anything, the "boooosh cookies" were loaded with "the press is liberal" as to push the stenographers and pundits further to the right and keep them under control. It's a co-dependency that was exposed during the Libby trial and the corporate media responded accordingly by trying to downplay this story. The problem is they've lost the "golden megaphone" and the Mighty Wurlitzer is being exposed.

History will be the ultimate judge on the corporate media. Their greed and arrogance has led them into financial messes that will eventually require a major restructuring of their debt-ridden world. The time is approaching to re-examine Telcom '96 and revise it to return the public airwaves to local and diverse ownership.

[blm]

22. And the REAL purpose of this thread is in your reply - time for Congress to deal with

a newsmedia that only answers to corporate money and power.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

23. To me, the most stunning testimony was by the Director of Security in the WH

who testified that there was never an investigation initiated.

He and the man from the National Archives also cited part of the Executive Order that deals with classified information, that anyone who knowingly and not knowingly leaks classified information must come forward.
That of course never happened.

[blm]

24. And where was the press the ENTIRE TIME? They just accepted Bush's word on

ALL of it and repeated the lies - they even KNEW they were lies and really thought Bush and Rove were going to get away with it anyway with THEIR help.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

25. The MSM Press has been complicit all along. They cheerleaded us to war and

they sat on Shrub's lies. I can only conclude, like other complicits (Senators and Representatives) that they were being paid off, being blackmailed or threatened. Remember the Anthrax attacks? Democratic Senators and the Media were targeted (on the eve of the Patriot Act passing). Look what happened to Sen. Mark Dayton. He heard of a "terror threat" and closed down his office, then decided he was going to be done with politics. What do you think really happened with him?