Like a lot of Democrats, I get messages from Mark Green, the former public advocate for <\/P> May I quote? Dear Leader “a) remains incorrigibly prone to deception and b) major media <\/P> Listening to the White House spiel is like being worked over by an old “I’m Chevy Chase and <\/P> So what does Green do? “I watch Jon Stewart’s “Daily Show” every night,” he writes. Fine. Besides, the truth is that the radical press and blogosphere depend on the best of the
\nNew York City and the president of the New
\nDemocracy Project<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>.
\nnoticing: Green’s latest message delivered the same old, same old, and did double duty as a promo
\nfor his and Eric Alterman’s “The Book on
\nBush: How George W. (Mis)leads America.”<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> <\/P>
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\nessentially look the other way.” Where have we heard that before? Green, left, does elaborate
\nnicely here:<\/P>
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\nWe have an administration feeling so brazen and immune that it derisively
\ndismisses reporter Ron Suskind as “reality-based,” with an aide explaining, “We’re an empire now,
\nand when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously,
\nas you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how
\nthings will sort out. We’re history’s actors … and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we
\ndo.”<\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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\nyou’re not” routine. Worse, according to Green’s a and b of it:<\/P>
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\nThe mainstream media cannot or will not point out Bush’s inaccuracies and
\ndishonesty as frequently as he practices them. Why? Because a) President Bush knows that our
\nnews outlets are afraid of the pain that conservative bloggers, talk show hosts and even the White
\nHouse can inflict by impugning their impartial reputations, and b) the media likes to report the
\nfirst three letters of what’s news — i.e. what’s new — and Bush’s untruthful recidivism is old
\nstuff.<\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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\nBut as good as the Stewart show is, the idea of Mark Green glued to the tube to catch it every
\nnight is a little scary. You have to wonder whether someone who claims to be a serious politican
\ncould be making better use of his time.
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\nmainstream media for accurate information. There are times, in fact, when nobody is more
\nforceful in denouncing Dear Leader’s regime than the editorial page of the most mainstream
\nnewspaper of all, The New York Times.<\/P>
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