Comments on: Largest political rally in Madison’s history yesterday

By: RS Janes

RS Janes — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 23:05:02 +0000

That’s good to hear, Greg, as the Big Media blackout apparently extends to Michigan. On Thom Hartmann the other day, I heard that there has been virtually no coverage of the protests in Michigan by state and local media, and MI Gov. Rick Snyder is seeking even broader powers than Walker — he wants to nullify local elections. Fortunately, the moment Snyder signs that fascist bill there will be a flurry of lawsuits since it blatantly usurps the US Constitution, but when was the last time that stopped the regressives? Crackpot Nixonite Pat “Southern Strategy” Buchanan was on the TV machine the other day, babbling that none of the union protests or the oppressive GOP legislation will matter by the time of the next election if the economy improves — he smugly believes the public memory will be short on this issue. I hope he’s wrong, and he usually is.

By: Greg in cheeseland

Greg in cheeseland — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:57:21 +0000

Thanks for your comment, RS. The events in Madison are being purposely ignored by all corporate media, at least as much as possible. Fox has outright lied in several instances about events in Madison. The palm trees are a reference to O’Lielly’s show, where he showed clips of pushing and shoving at a demonstration in California to try to show that the Madison protesters are a bunch of union thugs. (Palm trees could be seen in the background). It is not in corporate America’s interest to show the nation a very large crowd of working people, gathered in a common cause, after they were supposedly defeated by Walker. It must be frightening to the powers that be to think that this movement may grow and spread, and they will do anything they can to stop that. “If it isn’t in the news, it didn’t happen.” Fortunately the labor leaders and various progressive groups are cooperating with each other to centralize the movement and, like in Egypt, have done a great job of using the tools available on the internet to spread the word.

By: RS Janes

RS Janes — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 10:24:26 +0000

Thanks again for your great coverage, Greg. I was outraged Friday watching MSNBC in the afternoon where the ‘news anchor’ (not supposedly an opinion guy) failed to mention the Saturday rally and basically said that now that Walker’s anti-union bill passed, the whole thing is over and implied the protestors just all went home. He then displayed a Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel cover headline that read: “Walker Wins,” and quickly moved on to another story. If this is what’s on the allegedly ‘liberal’ MSNBC, I can only imagine how it played on Fox. That said, Rachel Maddow and Ed Schultz have both been doing splendid work covering the demonstrations in Madison but, apparently, the morning and afternoon people at MSNBC don’t watch their own network at night.