Listening to Beck or Limbaugh is like standing nose to nose with a derelict whose brain and senses are benumbed by cough syrup and angel dust, and who has just chugged a Red Bull and Ipecac cocktail; whatever comes out of his mouth will make no sense, and you will definitely be splattered with foul-smelling vomit.
Yet millions of our fellow citizens eagerly choose to stand and be slimed, ravenously gobbling and swallowing puke chunks. And our badly corrupted corporate media conglomerates validate this stenchified feedback loop by transcribing the bleats of these addled gnomes and printing and broadcasting it without any filter of reason or fact.
Is it any wonder that the childish, misinformed voters of this heinously ignorant country are quite probably going to vote into power a collection of extremist freaks and old guard Republican corporatist stooges who will dismantle whatever remains of our nearly departed civilized society?
There is but a week remaining to defuse the doomsday bomb before it detonates and destroys the future for our descendants. Please, please, please do whatever you can to prevent this apocalypse. This is nothing less than a battle for the soul of our nation...it is bloodsport.
Here are some worthwhile activist organizations who are fighting to the end, have real smarts and power, and boast a track record of electoral success:
Act Blue
MoveOn
Bold Progressives
Here are some blogs that are extremely informative and well written. Their front page writers practice a high level of what used to be called reporting and journalism before our corporate mass media began featuring right wing dictation and infotainment. Each of these hard news sites features candidate profiles in vital races, with links to effective political action:
Hullaballoo
Daily Kos
Firedoglake
There are pathetically few TV news shows that have any journalistic integrity.
For fact-based news reporting, fronted by studiously prepared and well informed anchors with a work ethic, three come to mind:
Rachel Maddow, The Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC
Keith Olbermann, Countdown, MSNBC
And the King, The REAL Most Trusted Name in News:
Jon Stewart, The Daily Show, Comedy Central
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