In
quick succession these stories crossed my desk yesterday; a cosmic
commencement of the media battle to have their way with us in 2016.
Bloomberg's "Walker
Surging in Iowa Poll as Bush Struggles" was quickly countered by
the WaPost's "Jeb
Bush has become the GOP front-runner for 2016 — so now what?"
Normally it's the New York Times's job to carry the GOP establishment's
water by proclaiming a front runner nobody else wants, but
someone the Democrats can defeat. I'm guessing that the Times
will try
still to carry on in that capacity, but it's reputation by now is that
of a 70 year-old crack whore and of little use beyond the city
limits. The newly burnished
WaPost is ascendant.
The Liberal Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation News's "Sarah
Palin's scorched-earth plan for the GOP: Governor challenges party to
move sharply right" is of little consequence but will be quoted
loudly by American Smugs.
Sarah
Palin, who now says she's definitely interested in "serving" as
president next year, made a speech last weekend at a gathering of
Republican White House aspirants in Iowa.
It was somewhat coarser, and certainly more
bitter, than her usual bundle of platitudes and jingoism.
At one point she shouted "Screw the left in
Hollywood!" And she complained about how even some Republicans are
buying into "this unhealthy new obsession … about this subjective
income gap that we're supposed to be so obsessed about right now."
[...] Under the headline: "Sarah Palin slips into self-parody," Charles
W. Cooke called it "the foreordained culmination of a slow and unseemly
descent into farce," suggesting she stay out of the race for the good
of her party.
 Charles
W. Cooke writes for National Review, one of this country's premier
conservative publications.
Under another withering headline, "GOP faces its Sarah Palin problem,"
Byron York interviewed several dismayed audience members: "It was all
quite petty," he concluded. []
The Boston Globe, which never forget backed for high office
two of the most incompetent
twats extant in Deval Patrick and Elizabeth Warren,
does it's thing with "Jeb
Bush shaped by troubled Phillips Academy years;" or as Powerline
puts it-"JEB
BUSH, POT-SMOKING BULLY!"
The Boston Globe has a long article on Jeb
Bush’s high
school years at Andover. The Globe piece has been picked up by many
other news outlets; the Hill’s headline is typical: “Jeb Bush was a
pot-smoking bully, say former classmates.”
What about the claim that Jeb was a bully? It is based on precisely two
incidents. In one, Bush and some friends sewed another boy’s pajama
bottoms shut. In the other, Bush lifted up another boy. That’s the
“bullying” tally for his four years at Andover. Pathetic.
This is reminiscent, of course, of the Washington Post’s long story
about Mitt Romney’s high school days, featuring a decades-ago incident
where Romney and others cut another boy’s hair. It’s remarkable: just
when you think investigative reporting is dead, another Republican
presidential candidate comes along to get reporters’ juices flowing
again. Think what doggedness it requires to go back forty-odd years to
research a politician’s high school days!
I'm tired.
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