Posted on 10/02/2012 5:18:03 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
For seasoned political observers on both sides of the aisle, it is not particularly surprising that the media's narrative for Wednesday's presidential debate has already been written.
If Obama were to show up in a clown suit and flip-flops, the media narrative would be that his unconventional attire was a daring and brilliant move designed to challenge the status quo and to reveal his human side, or possibly a laudable effort to make politics more interesting to children. Romney, of course, would be cast as the dull guy who dressed like an accountant and who failed to reach the audience with his talk of budgets and debt and restoring the private sector.
Wardrobe choices aside, by Thursday morning, as long as Obama shows up for the debate, the narrative will be that Obama has closed the deal with the electorate. After that narrative is repeated enough, it stands a good chance of becoming reality.
So the superficial answer to how Obama won the upcoming debate is that liberals control the news media that shape the thinking of voters in the middle, the ones who do not define themselves as liberal or conservative and who supposedly are still making up their minds.
The deeper -- and more significant -- answer is that conservatives do not understand political strategy, and the left does.
The conservative idea of political strategy is to figure out how to win elections in spite of the fact that the left controls the news media. Conservatives will fuss and fume at biased questions from the liberal moderators, and they will rail at the biased coverage after the debate, but they do not seem to have the foggiest notion of what to do about it other than to vote for conservative candidates on Election Day.
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Mussolini.
Obama will do his best impersonation of Mussolini.
Pure arrogance and defiance, unopposed and with ultimate power.
The stories have already been written. All that is left is to insert the quotes.
In the debate Romney came across as mean when he pointed out Obamas incompetence.Unlike Obama, who will definitely will add 1 million jobs in the first 3 months of 2013 Romney failed to give specifics how his economic plan will create jobs and deal with the Fiscal cliff.
Mussolini did have it right about the media. They were only good for decorating Lampposts.
Pray for America
Let's face it, Obama has had all the questions and brilliant answers provided to him far in advance by corrupt media execs. There is no way to counter this, that I can see. Our only hope is that he becomes severely rattled without his teleprompter crutch, and sits there stupified like jelly on a bun.
The enemedia needs to be treated like Nazi war criminals if/after the nation recovers from the crash and collapse they will have facilitated.
Another article highlighting the problem, but devoid of a solution.
This is also why Obama has been telegraphing that he is a lousy debater. He'll have rote answers and Romney will have to stop and think... making the debate look like another Obama golden moment.
The media will cover Obama's butt....
Another article from Duh Magazine and echoing many laments here on FR. The now age old question of why rich conservatives don’t buy or form new networks and take over major newspaper chains? Is it licensing, the FCC, cash flow, what? It sure isn’t lack of conservatives who could write or broadcast.
One of the reasons I will not be watching the “show”!
The media will dictate to the morons in the middle BECAUSE they believe IN NOTHING,so they will BELIEVE ANYTHING.
. There fixed it
You can’t put lipstick on a pig...Obama is still a pig. And conservatives and evangelicals will be coming out in force on November 6th with a diminished democrat turnout.
Can you say “sueeeey”.
Look what happened to old Mussolini in the end. He knows he’s going to lose —the last thing he wants is to try to rule after his term and the divisive race. If he does, he could become the most hated man in America.
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