Ummmmmmm.....substitute Edmonton/Calgary/Toronto/Vancouver for Queens, Canada for France/Germany and it all sounds SO familiar. Their leftards suffer from BDS. Do ours suffer HDS?

Oppppssss. Forgot to add "and Afghanistan for Iraq."

Canada doesn't get much U.S. media attention (thank God I often think), but we too have now elected a leader who is sympathetic to the legitimate interests of the U.S. and is prepared to lend active support (and who rightly differs with with them where our legitimate interests differ from theirs, e.g. on sovereignty over passages through the Arctic Archipelago).

I read the whole thing. Powerful re-statement of the obvious, the MSM is determinedly partisan even when it harms their country AND their own credibility and profitability.

They report only the bad, they slander, and they even lie. They've been doing for three generations now, and full throttle since Ronald Regan. Hell, Rush Limbaugh is a multi-millionaire just from pointing at the MSM and saying "hey, lookit that!"

But as she says, it WORKS. People who pay any attention at all to the MSM are convinced the world is f-ed and Bush/Harper/Conservatives are the reason. Its working for them.

My question is, what's it going to take to put these propagandists out of business? Off the air? Kaput?! I mean, terrorists blew up the friggin' World Trade Center AND the Pentagon, and it seems not to have made any impression on them at all.

Will they change if Amadinerjacket nukes a city? I really don't think so. They'll just ratchet up the shrieking at the Republicans, keep doing what they have always done until they start calling for open war on their political opponents and the overthrow of the American Republic.

Take a hard look at Dan Rather. He's not far from there now. Take much for Dan to start screaming "Viva La Revolution!!!" from the roof tops? Nuh uh.

I guess all us little keyboard warriors just keep sticking our pins in the giant's foot, eventually the son of a b1tch is going to get gangrene and die. Faster please, and can somebody find me a bigger pin?

When it comes to the news, the MSM no longer simply reports the news. Instead, they;

#1 Dumb it down. (Short attention spans, sound bites)
#2 Use the news to fear-monger.
#3 Influence citizens thoughts. (Biased Polls)
#4 Make the world's situation seem hopeless. (Global Warming, Y2K, Peak Oil)
#5 Insinuate that only the Nanny State can save us.

The media machine seemed to have shifted into high gear after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Socialism failed and the media panicked ---- pulled out all the stops and went Tabloid.

World Will End In Five Years For Third Of Species

Arctic Will Melt, Flood World

World Will End --- Again

@The Phantom:

I have to disagree with you with respect to your answer to the question "Will they change if Amadinerjacket nukes a city?"

The tide's turn in America is signalled when an example is made of a prominent "outmoded" figure. The reason why the antiwar Left is still as active as it was, is because the name of Billy Ayres (remember him?) wasn't dragged through the mud. Had he been the post-9/11 Name of Infamy, despite his quick apologies right after the attacks, then the antiwar Left would have had the same bad name as the America First Committee had after Pearl Harbour.

That's the crucial pin to watch for signs of dropping. I suspect that if the Iranian government lets a nuclear missile loose, then the antiwar Left is going to be shut up in a hurry through those means. Just think of how easy it would be to shoot down the moral-equivalencing gambit if such takes place:

AWL: "But America dropped two nuclear bombs in 1945!:

NAP: "Oh yeah? Then why aren't you people crapping on them in the same way you've been crapping on us for more than fifty years?"

Any anti-war leftist who doens't come back with a condemnation would be easily labeled a "moral-equivalence hypocrite."

We live in unique times. At no time in the history of human civilization up until the 1960's was it possible for the merely useless to survive. Either they couldn't feed themselves or they couldn't protect themselves - either way the useless were culled. We now have vast hordes of the useless who have no function other than to tell the rest of us how miserable and amoral we are - think of the MSM, sizeable numbers in the public service "professions", socialist politicians and of course the worst offenders, the professors in the social studies departments of our Universities (social "science", environmental "science", political "science", psychology studies, feminist studies, geography ...). All of the above can only survive by creating alarmism among the general public and confiscating the fruit of their labours in order to assuage the public's guilt.

Anyone paying 2007 prices for homes in Queens have taken poor financial advice.

As for people spending money...the reality is they are now spending it as fast as they get it...is this a sign of prosperity or a reaction to a deflating dollar that has lost 30% of its value in 8 months?...that means it's pointless "saving" better spend this nose-diving lettuce before it's worth even less next week.

The American economy displays all the signs of an entrenched "stagflation"...all leading indicators poit to it and even the banking ans investment community are saying this now...but of course if your optics color everything as a matter of partisan justifications, well...this activity is what passes for hard currency prosperity.

I Think "the anchoress" sees only what she wishes were there.

Daniel, I'm sure the rest of America would rise to the occasion just as they did on 9/11, just as they always do.

I'm equally sure the MSM won't. But you're right, a catastrophe like losing a city would ensure any MSM outlet dumb enough to even squeak "Can't we all just get along?" would likely burn down mysteriously the next day.

Trouble is, I can't see that being a good thing.

Now the good news;

Be Kind To Plants -- Increase Carbon Dioxide !!

More food for the world's hungry :)

I'm with Phantom that's it's going to take another Big One like a nuclear bomb wiping out Haifa or a port city here in the US before the inattentive narcissists on the left get their heads out of the sand or handed to them by a backlash from hell.

Richard Saunders nails it too. The useless empty heads that are the rank and file of the MSM, the all too many parasites on the public sector dole grazing unproductively towards a fat pension, and, so many of the tenured parasitical lefty hacks on our campuses and in our public schools would pretty much be starved to death based on their uselessness in another era. It's a pretty modern and artificial construct that keeps the "useless" employed rather than shamed and more resourceful.

If the port of Tampa got nuked by a dirty bomb tomorrow count on the NYT's, CNN, CBC, BBC and all of the usual lefty suspects to have a tie-in to Hiroshima. The hypocrisy of the left is that there is never an innocent enough victim unless it's their mother.

Clearly we are all being fooled by a clever Bush counter-propaganda stratagem which shows no deaths as a decrease in violence, which clearly it isn't. The lack of violence is simply a reporting error, as the reporters of the NYT and CNN are not reporting a drop in violence.

Interesting article, but I can't agree with all of it. Yep, the MSM won't report the good news out of Iraq, global warming is a scam, not everyone in the world hates America - those things I agree with. But to suggest that all is peaches and cream with the US economy is just wrong. The US continues to debase their currency at record rates, and as history as shown in Weimar Germany, Argentina, and Zimbabwe, this always ends in severe economic pain.

To some extent, the weakened US currency has done what classical economics predicts: US imports (from some countries) have dropped, US exports (especially aircraft and construction equipment) have risen, and the big US multinationals (Exxon, McDonald's, Boeing, GE, etc.) are enjoying higher profits even on flat sales from their foreign subsidiaries. However, the continuing costs of two wars continue to drive record current account and trade deficits. The only way you can continue to spend more than you make is if people are willing to keep lending you money. Already, countries like China are signalling that they are going to shift some of their assets out of dollar-based securities into euros, yen, etc.

But, actually, if you read or watch the financial press/TV, you'll see the same effect that the original article complained of, only in reverse. CNBC, or "Bubblevision" as one writer calls it, in particular sees only silver linings in every cloud. They act as if there is no inflation, that the sub-prime mess is contained, that the Fed will continue to cut interest rates, and that the falling US dollar won't affect the economy in any bad way. This is just as evasive and misleading as MSM coverage of the war, global warming, etc.