Monday, November 05, 2012

Media Chaff Dreams



"The media are rooting for Barack Obama.
 They’re not hiding it."


By tomorrow night we’ll likely know the name of the next president. But we already know the loser in this election cycle: political reporters. They’ve disgraced themselves. Conservatives have long complained about liberal bias in the media, and with some justification. But it has finally reached the tipping point. Not in our lifetimes have so many in the press dropped the pretense of objectivity in order to help a political candidate. The media are rooting for Barack Obama. They’re not hiding it.

Consider Benghazi. An American consulate is destroyed and a US ambassador murdered at a time when the president is boasting at every campaign stop that he has crushed al-Qaida. In an effort not to disrupt this narrative, the White House and the Obama campaign spend weeks claiming the incident was merely a protest over a video, rather than a real terror attack. Then intelligence surfaces showing just the opposite: The killers in Benghazi were no street mob, and Obama knew as much from the beginning.

Imagine if George W. Bush, or even Bill Clinton, had tried something like this during a re-election campaign. The howls from journalists would have been deafening, and unceasing. Instead, Obama has enjoyed every benefit of every doubt from the press every step of the way. Candy Crowley even broke character in the middle of a presidential debate to defend him. From their retirement, former presidents must be looking on in envious bewilderment. [Via Daily Caller]

Posting this is merely an indulgence.   A lottery ticket,  and a day or so to imagine the media being culled by a Goliath wheat harvesting machine.  Real change can only come with my ascension to Dear Leader status. Sigh.


6 comments:

Jess said...

Disgraced is a nice way of saying they need to be bitch slapped until they're silly, tarred, feathered, strapped to a treated 4 x 6 x 16, paraded through the streets and deposited in the nearest ditch past the city limits.

Anonymous said...

Unfortunately, if Obama wins, they win. Today's mainstream (whatever that means) media doesn't give a drizzley shit about what's right or wrong, truth or fiction, or what's best for the country. They just want to suck up to whatever head Donk is in power.

They are actively helping Obama make the trains run on time, by reporting his track schedules.

Sir H the Comet

Helly said...

The media rooting for Barry40-O has turned the corner. Essays explaining his defeat are coming online: he just wasn’t that into it.

My next blockbuster prediction: No cargo, no love. Democrats will shun and vilify him for losing.

Anonymous said...

The irony is, politicians always lie to the press
and then believe what they read in the newspapers.

GaGator

rickn8or said...

Helly, if 0bama does lose, everything will be to set the stage for Hillary (Chelsea?) 2016.

Helly said...

I see it differently, Rick. Bill is campaigning hard because an Obama win would create an open office in 2016. That's Mrs. William Jefferson Clinton's best chance.

If Romney wins, there will be a huge economic upswing and they will run Biden in 2016 as a throwaway candidate.

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