No one, and I mean NO ONE, in the Leftsphere is as BLUNT as Tas.

Whenever a representative of the mainstream media writes a completely one-sided story or goes easy on a despicable subject during an interview, I deem it as a "cocksuck". Why? Because the press is giving their subject such a good time that they mine as well be performing oral sex on them. (Note: In the future, when the subject of media pleasure is a woman, then I promise to call it a "muffdive". But, for the time being, we're dealing with men here.) So when Shake's Sis sent out a link to this AP article in her daily BBA dispatch, I read it over and instantly thought, "Cocksuck!", because it's just so one-sided and devoid of facts. In fact, it doesn't even include so much as a quote from anyone with an opposing point of view. It's that bad.

We are on our own on the DSM.

Despite some spikes in coverage over the last couple of weeks, the MSM does not have the stones to cover this story. And that is the really sad part.

Ron says it well:

Let's examine the coverage of the Downing Street Memo (which are actually minutes and Memos, but that's how it's most commonly known).

The Big Brass Alliance was formed nearly a month-and-a-half ago to get the word out and is now up to 625 blogs. The Downing Street Memo blog, After Downing Street, The Raw Story, Democratic Underground, Buzzflash, The Common Ills and hundreds of Daily Kos diarists have also been a huge part of this campaign to get journalists to, in a nutshell, do their jobs (sorry, if I left anyone out).

And, so far, we've been successful in getting a story that had almost zero visibility in the American press become more of a mainstream topic of interest.

But, I'm sorry, so far, the coverage in the American press has been incredibly lacking and mostly sucked.

Michael Smith broke this story on May 1st for The Sunday Times in Britain, and he has written a number of articles since then which have added to the tale. But the American mainstream media has yet to contribute one new fact to the story.

Hundreds of bloggers, like the ones listed above and mentioned in the story below, have been able to scour the Internet, hunt down charts and figures, expand upon Michael Smith's extraordinary work, yet the mainstream press hasn't done the same, and has ignored most of these contributions and have barely even addressed the "spikes of activity" mentioned in the memos.

This is an outrage! Has our American press really devolved into just a bunch of copycat stenographers? Hell, they might as well all join together and form one huge conglomerate, because that's what they've become due to their negligence in producing any real journalism.

The mainstream media started off by mocking the memos and claiming that they're old news. But the mainstream media should be mocked for essentially becoming no news.

When will our American Press return?

The fact that the majority of the Press wasn't ripping Bush's rhetoric apart the other night is a sign of where we have gone as a nation, when some of the same people the press is supposed to be watchdogging, now OWN them.

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