Mimikatz at OpenLeft sez:
We Need a New Generation of Leadership…Not a new generation age-wise, but a new generation of leaders in Congress who weren’t there at all, or at least weren’t in leadership positions, on 9/11 and in the years immediately thereafter. Those folks, fundamentally decent and hardworking though some of them are, are simply too compromised to be able to lead us out of the wilderness into which Bush and Cheney have led us. That is the plain and simple truth.
That’s true. But it’s also true about our media. NBC should consider this when they go about replacing Tim Russert. The New York Times and Washington Post should consider it when it comes to covering the next administration. No one has any faith in Michael Gordon or Tom ‘Suck on This’ Friedman or Bill Kristol or Charles Krauthammer or Maureen Dowd or George Will or any of the columnists and reporters that were wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong all throughout the Bush era. It’s time for a general housecleaning. There are so many talented people out there that were not wrong during the Bush era. Let’s hear what they have to say.
wishful thinking. the agenda is set and the corporate demands obedience!
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thankyou.
We need some new voices in America. Period.
I hope Gwen Ifill gets the call. It would respect Russert but also show that NBC is going to let some new voices in.
And MSNBC would do good to get a fresh face on the air. Namely, Maddow.
That they are both talented women is a bonus.
This goes back a long way before the latest Bush administration — it’s just that GWB is a blatant sort of guy. That Great American Hero Ronald Reagan knew how to use the power of access and its denial to keep the press in line, and the press has never forgotten it. And the right-wing mantra of “liberal bias,” repeated over and over again, kept them in line.
Yes, we need a thorough housecleaning, but I’m not holding my breath. It’s all corporate Washington now, and corporate Washington’s interests are America’s interests. Just ask any of the Villagers.
Mm… I’m not so sure. Corporate America’s power is a lot more tenuous than most of us like to believe. They have money, but that’s all they have. And all signs point to us being at the edge of a major economic revolution, the kind of thing that has, in the past, always completely changed the financial landscape.
I think you’re right that this goes back to Reagan. Look up most of the lead rogues from the latest mess – they all entered office in the years of Reagan or Bush I. Counting Clinton’s policies where they truly lay – center-right – these people have never been in office with a progressive President. (The last of which was Carter) Worse, they come from an era of profound apathy towards government and politics. They literally don’t understand why people are taking an interest in government affairs, and don’t believe that they can be held to account.
I fear that somehow the house is swept clean, fresh, intelletual faces fill the airwaves and then they are corrupted by that which is the seat of power.
Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone comes to mind, as new blood, honest, smart, and of his times.
Have you folks seen Steven Hayes being interviewed all the time by David Gregory?
He’s the liar who carried the neocon story about Muhammed Atta being in Praque meeting with Iraqi intelligence.
How does he get to show his lying face anywhere without being called on this?
Let me add that the lie was told because Atta was in the US being followed around by the good Mossad operation that ran Urban Moving Systems.