In the Tank

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Earlier today, on his regional show, Fargo's best known talk radio voice bantered about attending the White House Correspondents Dinner and how rude the audience was while students were being presented awards for their journalism. And how the inside talk is that Obama is off his game...while he correctly points out that the media focuses on Obama's bowling rather than his basketball. False-framers, they.

And then we get the National Press Club's pathetic, shallow Q&A for Rev. Wright aired today on C-Span. How often does Barack go to church? Wright turns it right around, prolly 'bout as much as you, questioner....

And MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell push-polling Bill Bradley about whether Rev. Wright is a real story or a media creation, thus furthering the media creation....

Meanwhile, the trade e-newsletter Publisher's Lunch prints a blurb about Huffington Post blogger E.J. Eskow's forthcoming book:

HuffingtonPost featured blogger R.J. Eskow's DEMBACLE: How the Democrats Lost the Unloseable Election, chronicling the two parties in the race for the 2008 White House and how the Democrats blew their chance against all odds, to Drew Nederpelt at Sterling & Ross, for publication November 2008 (world).

Anybody who had any doubt that the struggle to restore America and democracy is a battleground not only against neocon/corporatist Republicans but also what passes for a practicing press corps need only consider the self-fulfilling, self-absorbed lemming Vapid Vapors Media in full search and destroy mode these days.

They've learned nothing from Colbert.

Meanwhile, on a more hopeful note, Aaron Brown returns to the airwaves soon at PBS's Wide Angle. Score one for intelligent journalism.

UPDATE: Froomkin's take on the media, must reading today...and everyday. Another score for intelligence. If only this were soccer, we could declare victory and go home.