Alas.

That's what this feels like.

I was just a kid when I saw it, and she quoted it for the rest of her long life. It became part of our repertoire in the Intern household.

...Un-American investigations finally concluded with the McCarthy Hearings in 1954.

No more dissonance.
We had some posters coming on here crying after watching TV.
Who needs that?

seeing massive crowds for the President's events compared to less-enthusiastic turnout for Romney's events. Meanwhile I'm watching MSNBC (exclusively) and all I'm hearing/seeing is tight or Romney-leading polls day in and day out. But my biggest reason was all the hype about how the first debate moved Romney's numbers but two consecutive Obama debate victories resulted in nothing as far as numbers and absolutely none of the hype the first debate got in order to benefit Romney.

I am sick and tired of being played for a fool. The crowds for the President's events tell me all I need to know. And that is that President Obama is vastly more popular than Romney and that will translate, hopefully, into enough votes to overcome all the republican voter intimidation, suppression, and election fraud being committed in their effort to steal this election.

If only there were a way to strangle these entertainment companies "news" divisions into submission. But, alas, I'm afraid there's no way to get enough people to see the need.

....they're owned by large, very conservative corporations. That should tell you why the news is slanted to the right.

the evolution of this phenomenon. I used the word "entertainment" on purpose in order to infer that those conservative corporations "news" divisions are more entertainment than they are journalism.

I can hear the music in the background.

He wrote the screenplay for the original "Planet Of The Apes", which among other things, included an indictment of human-centric creationism.

into very accessible short stories. I have often wondered what he could do in today's world with all of the advances. I get the TZ via netflix.

Seriously. It's doing nothing of value for you.

We did that twenty years ago and never looked back. The people who own the media do not have your best interests in mind - why invite them into your home?

i guess they had already decided on the angle of the story and just put in stuff to try to push that.

but they brought up the presidential race and the debate and they claimed the candidates only talked in generalities and they did mention the ROmney binders comment. but they made NO MENTION OF LILLY LEDBETTER. they tried to make it as if both OBama and Romney gave non answers .

When will this be over?

local Spanish market. There was a LINE out the door. I just cannot imagine too many Hispanics voting for Romney.

I was impressed with the voter turnout! They also had stickers in Spanish that said " Yo' Vote". I grabbed one of those instead!

they simply do not tell the truth

They don't sample cellfones.

Lots of people, especially young people, do not have landlines.
I don't believe the polls.

I see enthusiasm at President Obama's rallies. I don't see it at Rmoney's rallies.

It's not that Pravda wouldn't have lied as much, but they just didn't have the resources.

I keep expecting to wake up, and the national polls will reflect the reality of an aggregate of state polls, but it never happens.

Someone is going to wake up sad and shocked on the Wednesday the 7th...In the meantime, we live in the Twilight Zone that exists around Bullshit Mountain, and I wonder if progressives will ever be able to cure America of the cancer that is conservatism.

showing such a close race while every Obama turnout has tens of thousands showing up in every state. The Republican owned media is creating a complete illusion--one, that they have a viable candidate who is competent to run this country, and two, that his numbers are actually close to President Obama's.

I have been feeling the same way. The media has been giving it all they have to convince everyone the sky is green. It is nuts that regardless of what people see in front of them they believe the lies.

I don't bother beng surprised anymore

Is a cookbook!

It's pretty easy to feel that way, what with the fact that we have two separate universes in one country. There's the real world we're used to living in, then there's right wing world. An alternative universe that's been taking over this one since at least the year 2000. It's been changing more rapidly, though, for the past 4 years.

If some people can't be in control all the time, they create their own reality - in cahoots with corporate media. And looking back all the way to the 1980 election, it's all come together how it could have all happened.

Feeling like, "Hey Dude, where's my country?"

Up is down,left is right,hot is cold.

I stopped buying cable 6 years ago. You ought to try it out, I think it helps my intellectual sanitation. I seem to spend less time now mentally confronting the bullshit being flung by the media morons.

and perhaps even more if Romney somehow wins

Hart Intercivic voting machines lurk in the background, programmed to do Romney's will...

They'll do their best to flip it -- but lately their best ain't good enough, and a Romney victory would clearly be a stolen one.