2 posts in 1 night? am i trying to give my readers a shock?
so i'm in bed with kyle, after, and he decides he wants to get up and make himself a sandwich. so i'm laying there in bed and it hits me that i didn't say 1 word about the hearing john conyers and sheila jackson-lee held.
i log on and while i'm waiting, i dash over to the e-mails and see wally's written to ask 'rebecca, aren't you going to mention the downing street memo hearing?'
what can i tell you, jess's mother is that inspiring that it had slipped my mind.
i thought joseph wilson repeatedly layed out a strong argument. i thought all did a wonderful job. i did wonder where others from the house, democratic side, were. i was happy to hear rush holt at least. but it often seemed like, as i've noted here before, the only leadership and bravery in congress comes from the black caucus. they stick together and they take a stand. john conyers, shelia jackson-lee, barbara lee, etc.
so what do i think is going to happen, that was wally's question?
what do i think will happen. i think the bully boy will hold a press conference/photo op tomorrow afternoon. i think it will be about nothing. i think he will kiss ass to the reporters who will be happy to laugh with him (as ray mcgovern noted in today's hearing) and that the corporate media will bury the story.
but i don't think it matters in a way because i think that this is a snow ball that's gathering and gathering with each day. i think people who knew nothing about it today got the basics and then some from watching it on c-span. i think word traveled despite the corporate media and that it will continue to travel. it's really like we've become a 3rd world nation and have to depend upon 1 another to pass things along. but that's okay because we are strong and resilent enough to do that.
say for every 10 who already knew about the downing street memo, 1 new person found out today as a result of c-span or some other outlet. that's fine. if the corporate media won't get the story out we will. it's like the shampoo commercial 'and they'll tell 1 person, and they'll tell 1 person, and they'll tell 1 person and so on and so on . . .'
the corporate media demonstrated that they weren't interested in balance. to them, there was only 1 side of this story, the side that they jeered at and ignored. look how far we came without them today. we can go even further.
i'd love to wake up tomorrow and have it be on all the morning news shows. that'd be great. but i never underestimate the corporate media's ability to defocus. so i'm preparing for that and remembering we didn't need them before and we can continue this without them. it will be hard work but we're hard workers.
