A pProblem and a Solution

Attack Monkey Media              The Obama Defense Team

“ Anybody who thinks that we can nominate somebody who is not going to be the focus of a media-destruction campaign is asinine,” Limbaugh said today, as he analyzed Mitt Romney’s strong victory over Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul in the Florida Republican Primary. Whoever we nominate is who the campaign is going to be about, the election. It’s not gonna be about Obama. The media can’t let it be about Obama. If it’s about Obama, he’s sunk! It’s gonna have to be about what a reprobate racist, sexist, mean-spirited, heartless creep the Republican is. And I don’t care who the nominee is. It’s gonna be about that. [Rush Limbaugh] Which was exactly the case in 1996, and again 2008.   There is a way this can be controlled. During the 2008 silly season, for instance, Howard Kurtz (Wa Post) wrote: “ Media coverage of John McCain has been heavily unfavorable since the political conventions, more than three times as negative as the portrayal of Barack Obama, a new study says. ” The FCC could, by fiat (or, congress by legislation), say this.  Media news stories will be treated like paid commercials. So, for example,  if there were 900,000 minutes of media coverage, and 600,000 was  pro Obama, the collective media would be fined 150,000 minutes( the advantage Obama was given) *the going  advertising rate.   In this case, media would've been  compelled to give the McCain campaign (in weekly installments)  that sum of cash to use in counter advertising.  I'll guess the McCain campaign would have received about $3 billion in 2008.  This all makes sense to me, so it must be right.  ”