Debatcle

A Vox On Your House
The Ghost of Peter Jennings
ABC Political Unit presents: "The Not"
Checkers has left the building

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Emergency byline note to Any Editor:
The top three concerns rattling the Citizenry are listed here in order:
Global Pollution/GCC/Climate Disaster
The Economy
The Economy
(Tie pins and angry black gospel preachers didn't make the list)
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An Open Letter To ABC News,

cc: Clinton Campaign

Dear ABC News,

Regarding the recent debate you hosted:

REALLY?

We "get" that George Stephanopoulos is one of the last, bunker dwelling heavy Clinton Loyalists. We assumed he will be blatantly supportive of the Clinton Campaign's desperate win or-burn-the-nation-down strategy. We accept this, in moderation, for giving us something other than Fox News to read and watch.

We "get" that the media handed Obama the nomination in November and December. You failed to see the rise of a vast and powerful wave until it crested. You fell into a role last fall as pansy-soft adulators of the Movement instead of journalistic investigators of the Man. We watched it in fact, so we "get" what went down.

We "get" that ABC is flummoxed by the new media world. Journalism is (still) dead and an Australian zealot runs the media business table in the U.S. Peter Jennings death was a personal and an American Tragedy to us much as you. Apparently, our love and respect of his honorable efforts were greater than yours all along. His passing has marked the end of Journalism in the U.S. It confuses you editorially, and we understand, we remain flexible on it. For a while...

We "get" that the ABC political Unit and specifically; "The Note", WAS the best political media center in American History. That was last time around though. M.H. is gone to a better gig. We "get" that in Mark's shadow you are bit lost, and confused. Even if you ARE less objective or less substantive than the average false-science blog from global warming deniers or Pharmaceutical P.R. campaign, we give you some slack.

We "Get" the backstory context more than you seem to realize. Our "intel" is actually better than yours most days (hint, we read "the wires" online). So, we "get" the nuances of the New Media; your "news" editor's motivations; the pressures you face; economic, political and even from verbally abusive individual superpower egos. We understand these things make you nervous and mistake prone. We are patient and forgiving, after all we are pretty much on the same side, and it is important we ALL start getting some of the big stuff right again, A.S.A.P.

But that "debate" thing last night?

OMG, WTF, AYFKM?

Really?

Is this really how you wanted to manage the last debate between Barack "The Rock" Obama and Hillary "Going Down The Road Feeling Bad" Clinton? Wow. This is hard to tell you but, um, the thing is, er, to paraphrase The Captain:

We Can't Get Behind That!

We might be able to arrange a "do over" but we should talk about some things first, in private, you dig? We will start with general things, like what color the sky is here on the home planet, and the scientifically observed phenomena of a chicken running in circles and dancing in apparent glee in April long after it's head was been chopped off by the farmer, back in December.


We invite you to join us at the Adult Table. Come on over and face the realities with more, um, sanity and stuff. You know, the way WE have to. Just leave the red and blue colored cool-aid over there with the scary clowns, and edible glue, and join us for a minute. That's it, just sit quetly here with us, and if you must interrupt, please, we insist, use your words.

We think it is childish and dangerous for our future as a quasi-free empire that you have abandoned reality with this outburst. We are disturbed by the depth of your witless shock as you wake up to the new political landscape. It is pretty chaotic, sure but here's our concern: You put us in this position with your painfull absence from the campaign trail last fall. You failed in November and December to do YOUR JOB. If we may we be so bold, from out here in the greylands of Middle America, you failed in your sacred editorial DUTY. We let it slide. But we have to hold you accountable now, going forward.

You will be getting a lot, like maybe 100,000, emails for this "Debatcle". They are symbolic, you only have to read this one. Put it on the damned bulletin board above the pretty rainbow crayon pictures, please. Here is the important stuff:

You can't go back in time and change it now. We have to face this weird shit and we sort of need you to face it with us.

Your Christmas list said "Anybody But Bush" (as it has for the last eight years) and Santa brought a Black Man for POTUS. We understand this makes you uncomfortable from a certain pro Clinton P.O.V. It freaks us out to, but it is done and we are gonna be good with it. We are the people, we have to be good with it.

You have simply got to stop going cry-baby freak-out in public like this. And we aren't asking. This latest public display of affectations scared the children, or scarred them, or both. Now wet-himself grandpa is even talking about taking over again. So we just want to say one thing as clearly as humanly possible to your childish ears:

KNOCK THAT SHIT OFF!

Thanks, sorry.

Obama DID win it all in November and December and nothing any of (us) who wanted HIllary to win can change that now. It is strange, weird and painful, but undeniable. Supporting Hillary today, the way ABC blatantly allowed George S. to do in this recent debate is the same dis-service to reality that you profer by allowing voice to science-deniers in the Global Climate discussions. Editorially, your oddball bias is, well professionally suspect, as H. herself is of late with her Clinton-At-Any Cost psycho endgame...

The only story here is the sad, dangerous and dishonorable fall of MY OWN PREFERRED POTUS candidate: Hillary Clinton.

And the end of all journalism, if that matters to you.

Go back to the kids' table now, and try to hold it together for us in public. Remember, were are strong or weak as a family!

Thanks for playing,

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