The Young Turks

Normally, both South Florida ABC affiliates carry This Week.  But the West Palm Beach station instead played an infomercial after the Chris Matthews Show and the Miami affiliate carried an hour of Hurricane Ike coverage, including a live news converence with our slimeball governor, Charlie Christ.

Of course, CBS in Miami carried Face the Nation with an interview with John McCain.  There was little reason to carry a hurricane preparedness conference with Christ, since, except for Key West, Hurricane Ike does not pose a threat to Florida.

I am sure it was no accident that the Stephanopolis interview with Obama was blocked in South Florida.  This is the kind of skewed media coverage that the Republicans depend on to win elections.

Liberal media bias, my ass.  This "liberal media bias" rag is just another double-speak smokescreen like the smokescreens that convinced a nation to re-elect George W. Bush.  The fact is that the media is corporate owned, and most of these corporations see a benefit in having a Republican in the White House.  Democrats passed laws preventing companies from owning all the media outlets in any given area, and Colin Powell's son helped the Republicans to reverse this trend.  Never before, in the history of the US, has the major media been controlled by so few - and some of the few are foreign (non-US) interests.

How can the Democrats win an election when the media is so tightly controlled that Obama is blocked from a pivotal media market like South Florida?  My guess is that the same thing is hapenning in Ohio, Michigan, Colorado and the other states critical to this election.

If Obama cannot get his message out, he is going to lose Florida.  And he will lose everywhere else that he needs to win to take the White House.