For any of you who missed their shows, both Matthews and Olberman got up on nationwide cable network and dropped their drawers so the rest of the world could see that they, even if no other commentators in this crazy mixed up country do, still have their balls intact.

I was as proud as could be. Expect to see them fired any day now.

This is the kind of stuff Obama surrogates need to be out there pounding...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

Paul Begala: The McCain-Palin Lies and the Neil Armstrong PrincipleIn the face of demonstrable, provable, incontrovertible evidence to the contrary, McCain and Palin continue to assert that Gov. Palin opposed the infamous "Bridge to Nowhere." They do so in their speeches and ads, and their supporters say so on television until their pants are on fire. McCain and Palin also claim the Alaska governor opposes earmarks -- despite the fact that she's gotten her state so much pork she's at risk for trichinosis. The media have an obligation to point out when a politician is lying about a matter of fact, but the right-wing attack machine has so cowed some of them you can almost hear them moo.

Contrary to some people around here who think we need to shut up and let the Obama folks do their own advertising w/o our suggestions, I believe they have people monitoring the blogs looking for ideas they can use.

And today I saw a doozy!

Earlier  Zentrails gave us a link to an article about McCain not wanting to talk about anything Bush...

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/10/cnn-mcbush-iraq/

Reading down into the comments in that article I found a suggestion for Obama that made me sit up straight and think "what a great idea!"

Rich Says:

All the more reason to get away from the Palin sideshow and turn the focus back to McCain=Bush. Then throw Palin’s words right back at them. Four more years? “Thanks but no thanks”.

September 10th, 2008 at 10:29 am


I LOVE IT!

"4 more years? Thanks, but no thanks!"

In another post, someone asked for a real phone # for NBC. My husband did some investigating and came up w/ the above number.

I called and talked to a real person. When I told her I was calling to object to Oberman/Matthews being pulled from debate coverage, I was transferred to a comment line voice machine, but at least I got in. You all may have other ideas for who to ask for...

In your complaints be sure to tie into the shareholders, all they care about is dollars and cents.

I know we're scared. We wouldn't be human if we weren't.

Unfortunately we are the small minority that knows what is happening. Right before our very eyes, we are being told that up is down and day is night. Since we haven't drunk the kool aid, we see clearly that a whole lot of people are buying it. Good people. People we live and work with, who are, in every other area of their lives relatively rational. And it is frightening.

Watching the Republican Convention I was struck that that must have been what it was like for some people in Germany to watch Hitler's rise to power. To watch him say things that were so obviously vile and disgusting, and so opposite from "actual" reality. Now, I'm not comparing McCain to Hitler. What I AM comparing is a group of people who are blindly allowing themselves to be led to slaughter. I watched people being told the exact opposite of what they were being told just a few short weeks ago, and buying it as the truth. I watched a whole bunch of people listening intently s they were being told that the party that has caused the problems of the last 8 years should be re-elected so they can fix the mess that they created, with no new ideas, just more of the same.

The leaders believed that because they took down all the Republican signs, and made George Bush stay away, people would forget that the Republican Machine caused the problems, and the Republican Machine was asking to be re-elected. And you know what? They were right! I watched a whole lot of people buy it, hook, line and sinker.

I listened to people cheering and whooping it up because this new hot chick Governor from Alaska rock star, pit bull, hockey mom had come to save them. They have no idea who she is, or what she believes (except that she is female and opposed to all abortion, except to save the life of the mother) and that is all they need to know. Nicole Wallace and Rick Davis have told us that we will learn all we need to know about her in her canned speeches. They will put her out to take questions from Marvin Milquetoast reporters if and when they think it is necessary. She will do NO hard-hitting news shows. And the press is accepting it. Just like they did w/ Obama, right?

Why wouldn't we be scared?

So what do we do with that fear?

If we hunker down and divert our attention, if we take walks and commune with nature, if we disengage to protect our sanity, they win.

We have to stay focused, work harder, make more noise, fight back, educate ourselves, our friends and families, donate, volunteer, enlist others to the cause, raise money, be vocal, write to the newspapers and other news outlets and INSIST that they stop covering McCain events if they aren't allowed access to Palin, scream bloody murder when we see unfair coverage or lies accepted, be visible, support each other in addition to the campaign, work the phone banks, register voters, DO NOT ALLOW OURSELVES TO BECOME DEMORALIZED, and above all,

        HAVE FAITH IN OUR CANDIDATE!

If he cannot figure out how to beat McCain, then he cannot figure out how to make the changes in this country that need to be made, and doesn't deserve the job. If we can't figure out how to help and make it happen, we deserve the government we get. I doubt there is even one of us who can honestly say we are doing everything we can do.

Continue to be afraid, but channel that fear...