Greenfield: Is anyone listening?

In a word, no, Greenfield!

We are not listening to the liars in the White House, in Congress or in the MSM.

You have all done nothing but lie to us since election 2000 and we are not buying any of it anymore. You are all finished!

CNN.com - Greenfield: Is anyone listening? - May 4, 2006:

"Much of the debate has focused on whether that mission really has been accomplished (a recent CNN poll found that only 9 percent believe that it has), but there's a striking political lesson that's been overlooked. It's not that the president hasn't been taking his case to the public -- indeed, he's done that repeatedly. What's happened is that the public has stopped buying the message. ( See, here is my exact point. Why the hell have we been debating it for the past three years when we all knew three year ago that the entire Iraq mission was bullshit. You had to have known that, Greenfield, if we all did, and yet you never said a word; just kept on debating.

All through the second term, Bush has been using the 'bully pulpit' of the presidency to argue his case on the war in Iraq -- and the broader 'war on terror.' All the power of the White House has been brought to bear -- the speeches have been carried live on cable news and have received major coverage. And what has happened?" (Which brings us to another point of extreme irritation. How did Bush go from being 're-elected' in Nov 2004 to this in May of 2006? We all knew in 2004 everything we know now. Of course you guys in the media were not reporting much of it at all, and when you did any reporting, it was so incredibly lame. We knew that Iraq was a failure the moment an insurgency developed. We knew it, for sure, when we found ot that the Bush administation was busy torturing the people they claimed to be liberating. We also knew that the Bushites had outed a CIA officer and ruined intelligence assets all over the world, so how concerned were they about national security? They were only concerned with covering their own lying asses, and that was sure apparent to many of us. Where the hell were you guys? With your heads up your asses as usual, riding on the swift boat of fools with Captain O"Neil. If you had paid one damn bit of attention, you would have known that the election in 2004 was a farce. Bush is no more the legitimate president of this country than I am.)