[BobL]

“We have our own media now, and independents are increasingly preferring it. We DON’T need to play this game any longer.”

When my parents start to at least question the MSM, I’ll agree. They don’t have to agree with me, but they need I want to see at least a question or two. But still, for now, Dan Rather is still their man and Fox might as well be run by Hitler.

[FredZarguna]

At the risk of sounding nastier than I actually intend to, Dan Rather is thoroughly discredited in the eyes of anyone who has any sense. If your parents still regard him as a reliable source of news, you're not going to convert them to the cause with any "Republican" to the right of Lincoln Chafee. And if that's the best you can do, you simply shouldn't bother. NO Republican -- not even a "moderate" like John McCain, who stabbed his party and principles in the back repeatedly on the road to the nomination -- is going to get a remotely fair shake from the media your parents believe in.

McCain was a complete media-whore and it got him exactly NOTHING in the final analysis with those people, and as soon as it becomes clear that Jim DeMint (or Marco Rubio, or Paul Ryan, or ...) has become the front runner he will get the Palin treatment in spades.

At that point, please don't come back here and try to defend whomever yerBoy is for the inevitable slip of the tongue that those bastards are going to jump on, because Palin is his proxy right now, and you ought to be defending her. It's not about the Kool Aid. It's about who is the enemy, and what they do to good people in every election, and it's time to stop excusing them by saying our candidates have to be better.

NO.

Journalism has to be better, and part of our electoral responsibility is to stop giving bad journalists a pass. What has been done to Sarah Palin is a mutha-effing outrage, and we have people on this thread who not only are not outraged by it, but who actually support it even on the basis of gruel as thin as this current non-story.

Please ask yourself one question: Where is "Retired Intelligence Officer?" He posted this non-article. He has ONE -- ONE (!) -- reply on this entire thread. One. How does it feel to be played, Bob?

[itsahoot]

Glad to see you have about as much influence on Freepers as you do your own parents. Zero.

[grey_whiskers]

But still, for now, Dan Rather is still their man and Fox might as well be run by Hitler.

Where do they watch Dan Rather?

Troll.