Why they hate us

I saw this post over on Crooks and Liars (one of the world's best blogs by the way, woo hoo, and I'm not sucking up to them because they linked me twice) and it made my blood boil and it made the angry monkey come down from his tree.

The angry monkey sayeth:

The mainstream, oops, sorry I mean corporate, media for years has been doing this:when people like us ask them to report on issues important to us. Issues like the ever widening gap between the haves and the have nots, the lack of universal health care in the USA, the wasteful spending on the military/prison industrial complex in the USA, the lack of funds for teachers and college scholarships for minority, poor, and working class youth, and the general lack of concern about human rights in our country and abroad by the Bush junta.



They want us to shut up and let them tell us what we are supposed to think and how we are supposed to vote. They think that since they are on TV or on the radio that they know more than us, the great unwashed masses.



And for years we had to swallow their crap because we had no outlet to put forth our views, our ideas, our agenda. They told us so many lies that it became hard to know when they actually told the truth. They laid down on the job during the run up to the war of terror on Iraq and Afghanistan. They swallowed everything that these two criminals told them.

Then in 2006 when we voted to end the war, to toss out the corrupt pigs, to put this country back on the right track, they told us that was not what we voted for. They said that what we voted for is what they tell us. And they keep on telling lies about just who is against the warwithoutendAmen and about what we want from the people we will vote for in 2008, especially guilty of those things are Chris Matthews, John King at CNN, and the whole FOX Comedy network.

But now they are slowly realizing that people are not watching their biased "news" shows anymore, not believing the lies they spew out, and not falling for their corporate crap in general anymore. And they fucking hate it. And they call us all sorts of names for daring to call them on their bull shit games. And they will stop at nothing to discredit those of us who know that they are lying and who write about the issues facing this country with passion, wit, and zeal. Their glass houses are cracking and they know it.

It used to be that when I got up on Sunday morning I would go buy the New York Times and I would read it while I listened to the morning news shows on the boob tube. Not anymore. Now I fire up the home computer, have a look at the news on Huffington Post, Raw Story, the Progressive, Alternet, Think Progress, Crooks and Liars, and then I see if the many bloggers who inhabit my blog roll have written anything new since I saw them last. I trust what my fellow bloggers write more than I trust what the hairdo's on TV tell me. I trust the news on Huffington, et al before I trust anything in a newspaper owned by a multi-national corporation.

So you go ahead and cry all you want O Reilly,
and you gals blow all the hot air you want,

and you whine about how all the left wing bloggers are attacking your lying ass Joe Klein,

and you tubby, you keep trying to get America to smell your stink finger.

Because guess what? We're not falling for any of your shit anymore. We know better. And you know what else? We'd demand better of you all but we know we'll never get it. So until the day when labor unions and groups like Amnesty International and Oxfam underwrite your news shows and not groups like Wal-Mart, Microsoft, and Exxon Mobil, then we'll just keep ignoring you and deciding things for ourselves.

Oh yeah, and I'll keep posting gratuitous photos of Salma Hayek because you all refuse to, so there. Nah nah nah.