Is it just me, or has the whole country and or media gone nuts...

[Peacetrain]

Seriously, everyone seems to have gone over the deep end. Is it because we were all afraid of our shadow under the last regime, that suddenly everyone can find nothing positive in anything.

People are yelling and screaming about nothing. Just for the pure unadulterated joy of hearing their own voices I guess.

[LaurenG]

1. Wow - I was just thinking similarly

It is so dumb that it makes me laugh now. :7

[Peacetrain]

3. I know,

I think I am watching a nationwide nervous breakdown in the media... running in circles.

[cottonseed]

2. Maybe they see things changing for them in a big way.

That might go for every entrenched interest -- even including Wall Street and the bankers. Every beltway hack is squealing right now because they don't know what's happening. Obama may be presiding over controlled chaos which will hopefully lead to a better outcome for everyone outside of the beltway, entrenched monied interests, and fattened up party leaders from both sides.

Or maybe not.

[Peacetrain]

6. Not only are they squealing, but they make no sense.

They contradict themselves hourly...That is the media, then I turned into the congressional hearings with Geithner and Bernanke, and the congresscritters were even worse. Did you catch Bachmann??

[Fresh_Start]

4. here's another alternative

things are demonstrably worst today then they were in 2008.

Obama inherited all of those issues: he didn't create them.
But its scarier out there now and people don't handle fear well

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

5. "WHAT ARE WE YELLING ABOUT??!!!!! LOUD NOISES!!!!!"

[uponit7771]

8. LOFL!!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

9. Fantastic!

[LSdemocrat]

7. You think this a new phenomenon in American discourse?

Your statement could apply to the entire history of US politics. Never have we really ever had political discourse dominated by reasoned discussion on both sides. The reasoned discussion has always been there to a certain extent, but it has never, ever been the loudest voice in the room. Even during the ever so glorified time of the Founding Fathers most political "discourse" occurred in remarkably vitriolic "newspapers" for whom the term "tabloid trash" would probably be too kind.

[Peacetrain]

10. 24/7 talkers in a box, adds a whole new dimension to the insanity

It is almost like they are making up for being so out to lunch during the dark times of the Bush/Cheney.

[Hamlette]

11. don't you remember the Clinton years. Replay.

there was some new scandal every week and the talking heads were foaming at the mouth then too.

I think a huge part of the problem is "the village". DC pundit types who decide who's "in" and who's "out" and beat it like a drum. Another problem is the monied class. They are freaked out someone is going to steal some of their marbles. They were totally nuts over FDR. They used to go to movie houses so they could boo and throw things at the screen when FDR appeared during newsreels. The refused to call him anything but "that man in the White House."

They think we are mean but we can't hold a candle to the hatred that is the right.

[Peacetrain]

12. I heard something pretty interesting a number of weeks ago along those lines

In that the DC mindset and by that virtue the media, cannot get past the fact that the Democrats are in control..They are so used to being beaten down by the right and threatened that they keep playing to that power set, while the rest of the country has moved on

[kimmerspixelated]

13. I think that about sums it up!

[TBF]

14. So I'm guessing you still have a good job and haven't been foreclosed on.

People are hurting. Try to understand.

[Sanity Claws]

15. It's a problem with the media, more so than grass roots folks

I can't take the media any more. I get my news from the web and refuse to take the gloom and doom folks on television.

[PlanetBev]

16. No, Peacetrain, it is not just you...

The lunatics have taken over the asylum. It's like a bunch of screaming toddlers, spinning on a supermarket floor. There is no decorum, patience or dignity in this country, especially when it comes to the media.

The media's most recent offering is, "Is Obama being overexposed?" For Christ's sake, he's the fucking Leader of the Free World. I would hope we get to see him as much as possible.

Whether it's blabbing on about the Octomom, or the picture on AOL of Rosie O'Donnell caught picking her nose, the media has driven the culture of this country into the toilet. :banghead:

[RepublicanElephant]

17. time to shake things up with congressional hearings on media ownership...

and repeated mentioning of the fairness doctrine.
:hide:

[BeyondGeography]

18. Maybe because, deep down, people knew this corporate American thing was full of shit