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[Indy]

Where? Seriously.

On a local level, maybe still (although the mayor here is off-limits as you see), but where? Our entire federal gov't is corrupt to the core. What about Wall St.? Save for Matt Taibbi and HuffPo--who covered that? The criminal part?

What about Iraq? That fraud cost us a trillion dollars and made a few people rich like Halliburton and you had a sitting VP who was ex-CEO of... Halliburton who pimped that whole war?

What the media eats up is a "corruption" story by one party which they then offset by presenting the argument from the "other" party. Think of a courtroom where there's no judge or jury, no decision, just the defense narrative and the prosecutor narrative.

All you have to do is nullify any scandal by making it partisan.

[Philly]

Have you really never seen any discussions on tv about Wall Street abuse and the government having their backs for the whole thing, or discussions about the possibility of us invading Iraq under false pretenses?

[Indy]

[Philly]

The media doesn't issue indictments.

[Indy]

[Philly]

No I don't know what you mean when you say lack of indictments is proof the press isn't covering it.

Rachel Maddow has done plenty of coverage not only of the Bush administration committing war crimes but also that Obama is also in violation of the law for ignoring it now.

I wonder why they weren't all hauled into MSNBC court to face charges?

[Indy]

Rachel Maddow.

Host of a show on MSNBC that averages a nightly audience of... 877,000 viewers.

In the same time slot on FOX, The Kelly File averages 2.2 million viewers. FOX will use its airwaves to tell you that not only didn't Bush/Cheney commit any war crimes but in fact they were heroes. Game over. And we didn't even have to leave cable news.

To put those two into perspective, The Voice on NBC averages 10.8 million viewers. Or almost twelve-and-a-half times the size of Rachel Maddow's audience.

[Philly]

True. I've always thought The Voice has given Bush way too much of a pass for the whole Iraqi invasion thing.

[Indy]

Hey you're the one who said that Iraq was given its due media attention.

Speaking of which--do you know who was the only one who openly questioned the Iraq war, heading into it? Why, Phil Donahue on MSNBC.

And yeah, he was fired for it.

[Philly]

So had more people in the media questioned Iraq before invasion we would have indicted Dick Cheney instead of going to war? Is this what you believe?

Bro, you're f**k flailing when you bring up a show about a singing contest as an example of mainstream media not covering government corruption. If you'd like to just stop replying and saw yourself further embarrassment I'll be a gentleman and never bring this up again. Or we can continue, up to you.