Hello all you bright and shiny full of Hope-Obama Pacifica listener-sponsors (and would-be listener-sponsors). Pacifica's stations, KPFK specifically, has recently become "Powered By The People"!! What a load of crap that statement is. Years ago KPFK got rid of that dangerous notion, "Listener-Sponsored", and even "Listener-Supported" was too threatening. That goes along with the notion that the network may actually exist for and serve the listeners. Well, we all know that's not true...at least now most of us finally know. And most of us know pretty much that the transformation of Pacifica's content into the mainstream has finally been realized. Just in the nick of time for Obama to be elected, right? Thank God, brothers and sisters. Yes, I was wrong in my guess that Romney would be McCain's running mate. Although it was clear the Bush gang was trying to the very end, or was that simply a stick and carrot operation to manipulate Republicans? But is there really a carrot now to put McCain over the top? In the land of wholesale (yes, I said wholesale) election rigging. You betcha! I shouldn't be surprised that the not very well educated Alaskan spouse of an oil driling man who has been advanced politically because she advocates drilling into the Alaskan wilderness would be brought to McCain. And of course, stupid is good. Bush is/was "stupid". Stupid is very good. Can't argue with success. The question is will this be the signal for the election to be rigged for McCain? Not likely, in my opinion, as I was convinced the Bush gang's dream President to follow the punk mother fucker of all time is/would have been Mit Romney (The SS Zombie From Hell, soon to be made into a Hollywood blockbuster to follow Tropic Thunder's huge success with the very stupid public and the critics). Okay, enough with factual history. Let's get back to utter specualtion, political fantasy, a little handwringing, and that wonderful fullfilling but temporary ecstacy (like the first 3-5 lines of coke), "Hope-Obama" (not to soon replace in the lexicon, "Hope-Eternal". No, we'll have none of that kind of hope. We 'need' Hope/Obama. Our hope needs to have a REAL man's face on it, better yet, a tall lanky kind of man, the kind of man that REAL women secretly long for...to be 'their own' personal President. The kind of man that knows how to inspire an audience, like a great singer. Think of Marvin Gaye at the Palladium in Oakland, think Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, Smokey Robinson, and many more. Isn't that all that this politics is about, really? Isn't it just about how cool you are and what kind of swagger you have? Isn't that what our culture is ALL about, really? And now we have our 'good ole buddy' Joe Biden to help out in Obama's big program of change we're going to see, thanks to all our good friends in the Democratic Party that Obama is such good friends with. Will I cry when (if) I get to see a black man get sworn in as President of this sad country? Yes, and I will be happy in my heart of hearts. Will I vote for Obama/Biden? Of course not. Will I and others like me be blamed if Obama/Biden 'lose' to McCain/What's her name? Without question. And of course, just like in 2000 (and even for some, 2004) this lie will be believed by the "progressives". What a sorry, ignorant but mostly stupid bunch, these "progressives". I'm wondering what they're actually progressive about. Oh yeah, I get it. They're a resurgence of the progressive movement after the turn of the 19th century. Yeah, right. No, the current progressives are actually liberals who's label got irrevocably burned in the mainstream media when Dukakis (that phony lying windbag mother fucking traitor) held up his ACLU card. Do y'all think that wasn't an operation? In any case, if anyone hasn't had enough of the Pacifica's Bensky coverage of the "historic" Democratic Convention in Denver (that great bastion of Democratic Party power), I encourage all list members to log on to kpfk.org and listen to KPFK's conduit for the national security state's most sophisticated cheerleading for the status quo of US foreign policy delicately coiffed for the so-called 'progressives'. I'm referring to the down under-er, Ian Masters, who normally has two hours every Sunday to ply his disinformation and ass-kissing ignorance. Yes, Ian is a must-listen program but not for the reasons he espouses. Ian filled in last Thursday at 4 pm on KPFK and the show can be heard on kpfk.org audio archives page. Please listen to this 'deep political analysis' of the Democratic Convention and other so-called important things. Maybe y'all will realize how co-opted Pacifica has become. But probably not. Click on http://archive.kpfk.org/parchive/ and scroll down to Thursday, August 28, 2008, 4:01 pm, "4 O'Clock THursday - Maria Armoudian, Guest host Ian Masters" with a special edition of his program, Backdoor Greasing. One of Ian's standout quotes during the program is his characterizing the Democrats as "Corporate-Lite" as opposed to the Republicans. Just in case you didn't realize there's a real difference between the parties, now you know for sure. Ian has cleared up that misunderstanding, and just in time, too. I wonder how many of Obama's supremely talented campaign managers listened carefully to Ian's guests advice on this special KPFK program. I have no doubt at least a few due to Ian's many connections with the powerful and influential who often use his Sunday program Backdoor Greasing to spout their deeply informed political expertise (or is it expertitis?) Btw, if you're expecting to hear on Ian Master's show from last Thursday about the chances the general elections will be rigged, you'll have to wait until Ian finally and trivially brings up the possibility on one of his Sunday two hour Backdoor Greasings. So much for political reality. Welcome to political fantasy, a la Pacifica's (and liberal Hollywood's) most listened to national security state servant, Ian Masters. JM