Does it strike anyone else how strange it is that at the end of every day this site and every other progressive site is grousing about the same thing.

"Can you believe that with all we have to deal with that the media is obsessed with Obama's race and birthers". The subtext is "We don't buy that crap but some stupid people might."

Obama would not be President if most people bought that crap. In fact most people haven't been buying that crap since they tried to railroad Clinton. In between elections it is too easy to forget that and that is what that media is counting on.

That hierarchical media is the message. That media will always protect "the villagers" of Washington and the Masters of Wall Street from outsiders and any threat to the status quo. That media is dying. It is a feeble old lion, striking out and lying with every last breath to deny its inevitable demise. Journalism will survive on the web but it is our job to make sure it doesn't survive in its present corrupt form.

This interactive media is the message. This media is the people. The people are the message.

When will this media stop obsessing with that media and focus on putting pressure directly on our representatives?

When will this media, TPM, Huffpo, Salon etc, produce its own evening interactive summation of the days news instead of letting that media set the narratives and the priorities for us.