your right wing media @ work

ever since our president got into office, the right wing media has gone out of its way to discredit him or make him look bad. obama is a liberal, a socialist, an undercover al qaeda agent, blah blah blah blah blah. george dubya never had to face this sort of shredding and he was a liar, a law breaker and did his level best every day to shred my beloved constitution to so much useless scrap! the media and the radical right wing in this country gave all of us excuses for this sort of preferential treatment. "oh, we're at war and bush is a war president" or "it's unpatriotic to question a president during war time" and bullshit like that. are we still not at war? is not barack obama the new war president? what's changed between the bush and obama administration? you and i know the answer to that question: nothing. so why then is the national media, reputed to be so leftist it's wearing karl marx's underwear, trying so hard to discredit, embarass or deflate president obama? ever since the man entered office all the media has tried to do is tear him down. to what end? sure we can speculate they do it to help the republicans and, indeed, most media outlets are dominated by right wingers but is that all there is to it? or is it the inherent racism in the american collective mind? to put this in another perspective remember when dubya bush went to crawford nearly every stinking weekend he was in office and the media said nothing about it? president obama did some sight seeing in paris with his wife and little girls and for the next 2 days all we heard about was how obama was an intellectual snob who was neglecting his duties as president. how dare the president sight see with his family! i suppose he could go spend weekends in chicago a'la bush in crawford but then i suspect chicago's rampant craime would be blamed on our president as well along with media coverage about how obama is lending to the decay of our great american society. all bullshit to be sure yet everyday the rush limbaughs and the katie courics and the sean hannitys and the charlie gibsons keep pumping it out of their asses. now it's over health care. there are a lot of rich and influential fuckers out there who don't want universal health care. to them we americans are just piggy banks and they don't want to lose our money even though they have too much money as it is. and so president obama is under siege yet again. if we were all soldiers we'd be saying president obama is taking 'friendly fire' now but there's nothing friendly about this unconscionable, dastardly practice. why is no one calling this unpatriotic? how is this not giving 'aid and comfort to the enemy' a favorite mantra of the bush leaguers? doctors, hospitals, hmos, insurance companies and republicans already make too damn much money and they still want more and they want to squeeze every last cent from us that they can. how patriotic is that?