Dear Mr. Bush

[whimsicaldeb]

11/19/05

Dear Mr. Bush:

I would like to extend my hand and invite you to join us, the mainstream American majority. We, the people -- that's the majority of the people -- share these majority opinions:

1. Going to war was a mistake -- a big mistake. (link)

2. You and your administration misled us into this war. (link)

3. We want the war ended and our troops brought home. (link)

4. We don't trust you. (link)

Now, I know this is a bitter pill to swallow. Iraq was going to be your great legacy. Now, it's just your legacy. It didn't have to end up this way.

This week, when Republicans and conservative Democrats started jumping ship, you lashed out at them. You thought the most damning thing you could say to them was that they were "endorsing the policy positions of Michael Moore and the extreme liberal wing of the Democratic party." I mean, is that the best you can do to persuade them to stick with you -- compare them to me? You gotta come up with a better villain. For heaven's sakes, you had a hundred-plus million other Americans who think the same way I do -- and you could have picked on any one of them!

But hey, why not cut out the name-calling and the smearing and just do the obvious thing: Come join the majority! Be one of us, your fellow Americans! Is it really that hard? Is there really any other choice? George, take a walk on the wild side!

Your loyal representative from the majority,

Michael Moore
www.michaelmoore.com
mmflint@aol.com

[jimboloco]

Well, I wonder where that majority is. I mean, where are the masses of the disaffected?

I voted a couple of weeks ago, for the mayor of St Pete. Republican incumbent Baker won 70% of the vote, with liberal environmentalist (and independent bizman) Helms got a measely 30%. I mean, like 15% of the frigging disaffected went to the poles. I waited for my wife and step-son and we all three went to the polling place and voted. I was wearing my WMNF "radio for the rest of" us walking billboard t-shirt. The greeter at the door said, "I've got one of those." and the guy who monitered the polling booths said the same thing!

Living in a conservative area is so much different from living in one of those areas that have socialists on the city council, etc, like Santa Cruz or Madison or Boulder or Bezerkley.

But I tell you what, the community of people in opposition is also more apparant, connected, and really underground. Occasionally we break thru into the mainstream media, but have frequent coverage and involvement via community radio, thank god.
Other day I was driving to work at 6 AM on Veterans day, called the dj and asked for something about vets and peace. He played a tune, "smart bombs". Got to go back and check the playlist.
ah yes, Sonia and Disappear Fear "No Bomb Is Smart" (Live)
Thank goodness for Michael Moore.
Thank goodness for community.
Thank goodness for the underground proclaiming itself as the new majority, just waiting for more of us to wake up.

For that day of reckoning, not gonna let this earth go down the drain. one more voice across this land is my land, yah.

[mnaz]

Does Bush really believe that staying the course is the 'right thing', or is it tied to his thinly-veiled imperial agenda? Can anyone answer this with full certainty?

If we do not show definite signs of 'defeating' the insurgency in 2006 (which seems impossible at this point), then Bush will likely lose Congress. How will he be able to keep his war going after that? I guess we'll see.

[Zlatko Waterman]

All:

I strongly recommend an article, "The End of News?", by Michael Massing in THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS December 1, 2005, page 23.

Massing, from the Columbia University School of Journalism, does a fine job of analyzing the captivity and flaccidity of real, factual news reporting in the US.

The Orwellian dictum of "He who controls the past, controls the future . . ." has not only come true, things have gotten worse. The past has been largely erased.

To control language, and then to winnow away the simple and factual delineation of the way things are, is to control the present. The Clear Channel Network ( and its subsidiary, Premiere . . .)


http://www.clearchannel.com/

( note the ad for a Rolling Stones event . . .)

,whose current weirding and re-configuration involves capturing O'Franken and Air America in addition to broadcasting Rush Limbaugh and other right-wingers, shows the strange homogenizing of all conduits of news to radio and tv listeners. Fox 11 tv and its affiliates are also partnered with Clear Channel

http://www.clearchannel.com/Radio/Press ... aseID=1207


The withering away of newspapers, particularly even marginally independent ones, as described by Massing, completes the picture.

The mass media controlled by this corporation pump unfactual, polemical and just plain sensational garbage to 110 million listeners/ watchers or more daily from Clear Channel alone.

Couple this near-hegemony with the lassitude of any factual coverage of the Iraq war as it was birthing by the other big corporate networks, and you have a population and an electorate under perfect control by Wolfowitz and Rove.

Things are worse than you might imagine, though the defeat of Arnold's ( read-- Pete Wilson's) propositions in California is a good sign.


--Z

[Axanderdeath]

okay fucker!

your right but what you have to understand is the rest of the world has suffered because of you super power shit...... FUCK YOU AMERICFAN GUILT!!!!!!!

[jimboloco]

where is the guilt?
spilled blood over there
over here nary a care
just our beerz and tears
our fears are fed to us
and thru the years
we mourn and grieve
until we take our leave and die