Ted Rall speaks

Why are so many respected journalists parroting the Democratic party line? I suspect that corporate media culture, rather than Judith Miller-style malfeasance, is largely to blame. Ink-stained newsrooms have been replaced by bullpen offices indistinguishable from those of banks or insurance companies. Reporters used to come from the working classes. They distrusted politicians and businessmen, and politicians and businessmen loathed them. Today's journalists are products of cookie-cutter journalism schools. Because graduate schools rarely offer scholarships, few come from the lower or middle classes. They look like businessmen. When they meet a politician, they see a possible friend. They wear suits and ties. And when a U.S. senator like Joe Biden feeds them a line of crap, they gobble it up.

Ted Rall has a new column here where he outlines the perfidity of the Democratic Party as they while away the next year counting coup on the failing Bush administration and the war grinds on. There's something very corrupt about letting our troops get killed and maimed and tortured in a war zone for political profit.

Hey, Senator Reid, Speaker Pelosi -

* STOP THE WAR * BRING THE BOYS AND GIRLS HOME NOW *

It's the only right thing to do.