Wag The Dog -- The Medium Is The Massage -- The Point Is, We're Getting Media Screwed

I can't put it any better than Blue Texas has over at firedoglake (see below or hit link).

Seriously, folks, this Rev. Wright distraction has gone too far and my disgust finally hit it's high (or low) point yesterday as I listened to Diane Rehm interviewing Jimmy Carter.

Right after Carter had answered a caller's question about who he likes in the presidential race (Carter, a superdelegate, was diplomatically able to side step the question), Rehm, taking her cue from Stephanopolous/Hannity, asked Carter if he thought the Wright issue had hurt Obama. Et tu, Rehm?!?!?! Then she went on for two more questions about Wright (maybe more, actually, as I turned my radio off in disgust).

Sure, I know Wright put himself back in the spotlight. And Obama had to respond. But this remains a wag the dog nightmare.

The media is perpetuating this non-story at the expense of bigger ones and now NPR/Rehm is complicit in this maddening paradox of politiking. Wright is not the candidate. Obama has said all he can say on the subject. Rattling off the opinions of a non-entity such as Wright is not saving lives, homes, bank accounts, insurance policies or fuel.

While Malkin & Co. Continue Endless Circle Jerk On Wright, Deadliest Month Of 2008 In Iraq Gets Worse
By: Blue Texan Wednesday April 30, 2008 10:30 am

Of course the Anchor Baby and company are blathering on and on about Jeremiah Wright. They desperately want to change the subject.

Wouldn't you, if your party presided over this debacle?

The killings of three U.S. soldiers in separate attacks in Baghdad pushed the American death toll for April up to 47, making it the deadliest month since September.

How are they going to message this? More of our troops getting killed means The Surge Is Working?

Dozens of fighters ambushed a U.S. patrol in Baghdad's main Shiite militia stronghold Tuesday, firing rocket-propelled grenades and machine gun bursts as the American offensive into the Sadr City neighborhood increasingly faces pockets of close urban combat.

U.S. forces struck back with 200-pound guided rockets that devastated at least three buildings in the densely packed district. The U.S. military said 28 militia members were killed. Local hospital officials also said dozens of civilians were killed or wounded.

And here is the insanity of the occupation. Americans are fighting and dying in a conflict over which sect of Islam will rule Iraq, and in the process, are killing innocent Iraqis, whose shattered family members then retaliate against Americans, thus making the endless, vicious, violent pointless cycle complete.

100-Years McCain and the GOP know they can't win on the war. They can't win on the economy. They can't win on health care. Their agenda sucks ass. And they know it.

So they're going to do exactly what they did in '04 (Faggityfaghomogays) and '06 (Brownillegalwetbackmexicans). This time it's Wrightscaryangrynegro.

It's all they've got.