Posted on 09/18/2008 10:33:16 AM PDT by Bill Dupray
It’s not a slam dunk, because the media is ignoring it.
If the parties were reversed, every evening news story would be about how the Democrats TRIED to fix this, but the evil republicans blocked it to pay off their fat-cat friends.
And since the MEME is that Republicans are big-business fat-cats, the people would believe it.
But because the Republicans were trying to clean up, and the Democrats were in bed with the financiers, it doesn’t fit the story line, so the media ignores it.
The power of the media to distort goes far beyond bias in the stories they tell. Far worse is the bias in the choice of which stories NOT TO TELL.
This is a slam dunk for McCain IF he focuses on this rather than on Wall Street bashing. Not to say that Wall Street is not to blame, but his focus should be on his recognition of the problem (as with the surge) back in 2003...and the Dems and Obama’s do-anything-for-contributions mentality
bttt - gotta follow up on that Barney Frank quote. Awesome!!
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