[pullquote]The MSM is turning on Obama not because they ran out of liberal whitewash.[/pullquote]I’m not buying the MSM’s pivot on Obama. They may be genuinely upset at his incomprehensible (or dishonest) statements lately, but they are taking him to task not because he is so obviously lying, and not because they ran out of liberal whitewash. The MSM is turning on Obama because the GOP failed to defend Sarah Palin.
They have always known that Obama is a liar, and they have always been willing to do whatever it takes to support him. Lie, cheat, steal, kill, throw an election–there’s an argument that each of these has been accomplished on the road to BarryTown. So their sudden criticism is not squeamishness about what needs to be done–they are fearless about misleading the American public, for they know that their tracks will be covered by their allies in media, culture, and the classrooms of America.
“Although the death of Steve Jobs coincided with Sarah Palin’s announcement, it has been a helpful accident of fate because it allows us to realize and commemorate the greatness of one’s individual’s contribution, and the utter futility of the other.” –Martin Bashir, NBC News
Crap quotes like the above have been a regular feature of the political discourse for nearly four years. I have argued that Sarah Palin was our secret weapon to defeat the MSM, but we had to actually do something in order to make it work. The media run screaming from their caves to attack her, human-wave banzai charges of hacks and poseurs, the angry swarming of the liberal beehive, a hippie commune of reporters and editors who sell us their version of current events. It is a phenomenon unseen in recent history, except with Herman Cain, and for the same reason: a threat to the “rich white male” image of Republicans that the left depends upon to divide America. All we had to do was take advantage of that exposure.
[pullquote]Breitbart showed us how to “weaponize” content[/pullquote]If Palin was the weapon, Breitbart was the tactic. When the MSM comes out to attack, you ridicule it, taunt it, keep it out defending itself against side attacks until it is forced to retreat, and in the full view of the public audience it had ginned up for its Mama Grizzly bear-baiting. Andrew Breitbart showed us how to “weaponize” content, such as the ACORN videos, and Anthony Weiner’s Twitter correspondance. Simply dumping the stuff online is worse than useless, as it is soon assimilated by the MSM, re-processed into attacks against the right.
I argued that a Palin summer was the perfect opportunity to hammer the press into at least a fearful pretense at objectivity, rather than the free-ranging leftist promotion they engage in now. I believe that her bus tour and barnstorming were only the first steps in a planned longer campaign of headline-grabbing, leftist-enraging provocation that would have been the perfect substrate on which to build a media challenge. Instead, the Republican field and commentariat recoiled from her, either not convinced of the value or uncomfortable with the risk of taking on the MSM directly.
[pullquote]Obama may be in trouble, but the media has been handed a huge trophy[/pullquote]Republicans have a tendency to make excuses for the press while it eviscerates them. The Tea party has no patience with this–the media beat the GOP last time, and will do it again unless they are first defeated. Obama may be in trouble, but the media has been handed a huge trophy and is now confident that they know how to defeat us again this year. That is why they feel at ease to criticize Obama, which will strengthen him a year from now.
I am not impressed, GOP.
First they take out candidates whom they can easily portray as kooks and who are popular. This makes room for unpopular kooks to pop up, whose support is fleeting, and who pose no threat. This is the Bachmann/Paul/Johnson sequence. Then they take out candidates who are solid conservatives and who carry a threat of real popularity. This is the Bachmann/Perry/Cain sequence. They know they don’t need to bother with Gingrich, Huntsman, or Pawlenty, even before he split. Those candidates cannot gain the primary, because they cannot win the general and will not garner the support of the establishment. What’s left are the losers and the designated winner, Mitt Romney, who cannot win a primary without the media’s assistance, but who already carries the support of the establishment, and who will lose a general because he is made of media, a RINO with a health care problem.
[pullquote]The media will force Republicans to choose between keeping the House or gaining the White House[/pullquote]Consider this: Romney is in deep kimchee with the GOP and especially the Tea Party wing, and that is with the support of the media and the establishment. Just wait until the media savages him as a big-spending northeastern health-care liberal in the general, forcing establishment Republicans to choose between his election and their own re-election. That’s how this game is played. When it comes down to keeping the House or gaining the White House, how do you think Republican establishment Representatives will swing?
Make no mistake–the media knows how to destroy Mitt Romney, and they know they will get away with it, because the GOP would not defend Sarah Palin when it cost them nothing. They will not defend Romney when it would cost them dearly.
