I agree with the support for FOX and we keep one TV tuned in 24/7. I think Clinton(Wallace) kicked off the start of the Democrat boycott campaign. FOX never says a word but you can’t avoid noticing that only Dem talking heads (usually lower level) will come on. Democrat Politicans are Chicken. Invisible Dean exposed it this week with his ‘ban the media’.

I have good Senators but I might take your advice and put pen to paper. Plus, I get mad before the phone call is over.

I disagree slightly on handling the media though. I have been ranting that it had to come from Congressmen (not the WH) for a long time. This Party needs some creative people working on cutting through. Mitch McConnell does a good job with straight talk about serious subjects but I watched him yesterday and just shook my head. He is still playing this like an adult. He is dealing with naughty kids who have managed to tie him up and taking them all for a joyride. When asked if he thought Reid should resign, McConnell says that is Dem business. Asked 3 times and he repeats. These Congressmen think they can keep their hands clean and only give adult answers. It is much, much, much too late. This is exactly the way they handled the Dems in the orginal committees and confirmations. That would be fine except the Dems have the MSM doing the work and this bunch of Pugs MUST find a way through. McConnell missed (deliberately) an opportunity. The way the Dem/MSM works is that they get someone to say or write the deed….then they all get on the horn and repeat the orginal. Then they repeat each other, etc.

Number 1 job of all today should be that each of them put their face on a camera and ask the Dems if they are waiting for Tuesday to send the bill to the President. Have Senators repeating this the entire day…..over and over. This is not trivial. The public has been sold a pack of lies while they sat back and acted like the indulgent adults. If we expect the troops to fight a war, I expect all of us to get our hands dirty and help them. We can NOT help the troops unless we can find a way through the MSM lies. People are fighting the wrong issue……the Dems are the most corrupt, incompetent bunch of boobs that ever came down the pike BUT they have a MSM ARMY that has almost defeated our troops because our troops can’t get to them. I say that the Republican Congress can but won’t.

See the proud tradition of Harry Reid through the prism of American conflicts: Valley Forge, Tippecanoe, etc….

Sit down and take out some writing paper and a pen. In a respectful manner, express your concerns to your elected officials in your own hand. I generally say three letters but five might be in order now. One to your Congressional Representative and one to each of your Senators. In this case one to the Speaker and one to the Majority Leader might not hurt.

A hand written letter carries more weight than a thousand emails or a million signatures on some Internet petition. Particularly if it is from someone they rarely hear from. It carries so much weight because it shows that you took some effort to take time out of your day and directly address that official. It tells them that you were willing to inconvenience yourself to speak your piece. You might compose it on a computer but don’t print it or type it, write it out in your own hand. Be respectful but clearly state your concerns. Don’t simply call names and rant.

Those soldiers over there are amazing. Everyone that sees them in action says so. Journalists walk away from their experiences there with their minds changed. We can not allow their efforts to have been in vain. We have sacrificed too much an the Iraqis have sacrificed even more and suffered too much to toss it all away now.

Those hand written letters, particularly the ones from folks that they generally don’t hear from are real eye openers. They carry a lot of weight because so few take the time to do that anymore. It says a lot about how seriously you feel about what you are saying. And they do notice.

No disagreement, here. The MSM agenda is so obvious. I cancelled my subscriptions to the Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News a couple of years ago (owned by same CO.). They call all the time to offer almost free subscriptions just to get their numbers up. I give them an earfull about their severe left-wing bias, distortions, and automatic repeating of the pro-terrorist junk from the NYT and AP. Still, they call and offer nearly free subscriptions. Same thing with the electronic media. I never give Nielson a chance to count me as a viewer of NBC, CBS, ABC, or CNN, MSNBC, etc. (except for Glenn Beck).

Little things like this we all can do. We don’t have to sit by idle.

But we must motivate our leaders to lead. I’m afraid I don’t buy the argument that it’s no use to speak out. They all have websites. And you and Mac and a host of others are there to amplify what they say. But they don’t seem to know how to fight back. Just a few declarative sentences will give able bloggers like you great material. But we hear little or nothing. Pelosi and Murtha AWOL yesterday, then voting to surrender. Not noted by anyone. They both should be innundated with demands they resign, just like Reid.

Thanks for your great work, but if our leaders don’t become more aggressive in the face of the Democrat-MSM juggernaught, many good but despairing Republicans will embrace candidates that have no chance of winning an election. If good Republicans don’t start becoming wariors, I fear for a disastrous third-party movement. Then where will we be? These are not normal times. We really can’t afford to wait for the next election to begin to stand up to the Democrats. The Sorros funded war-rooms are already geared up for that.

Petraeus also said progress in the Sunni-run Anbar province “is something that is breathtaking,” CNN reported.

Petraeus said “we have work to do” in other areas, including reducing the number of car bombings.

The papers have an agenda to support the Democratic party position and there is simply nothing we can do to force a paper to report content that might be counter to that agenda.

What we CAN do is support media outlets such as Fox News and The Washington Times that aren’t afraid to give a more balanced view. If those outlets succeed, things will change. Media is fundamentally a business and they will produce what sells at some point or they will die.

Isn’t it interesting that the House vote and today the Senate vote will be allowed to suck up all the oxygen and the MSM will not notice the great news from Iraq. Will some Republican leader please speak up and end the friendly fire coming from the Democrat Congress?