Could this perception use some correction, LS, Ravi? You guys are actually on the ground there.
FReegards!
Posted on 10/10/2012 11:08:13 PM PDT by neverdem
It was in Denver one week ago that the long-running romance between Barack Obama and the national press -- aka the "Slobbering Love Affair," as Bernard Goldberg put it -- hit the wall. The motel bill, unpaid these many long months and ages, at long last came due.
It had been the real thing, not a commonplace fling with your generic Democrat, but the love of a lifetime, the genuine article, the sum of all dreams: He was not just a Democrat, he was also a liberal. He was not just a liberal, he also biracial, also multinational; also hip, cool, and clever. He was themselves as they wanted to be. Like them, he was gifted at writing and talking (and, as it turned out, not much beyond that), like them, he stood up for Metro America; like them, he viewed the people outside it with a not-very-measured disdain. "I divide people into people who talk like us and people who don't talk like us," said David Brooks, speaking for all of them. "You could see him as a New Republic writer ... he's more talented than anyone in my lifetime ... he IS pretty dazzling when he walks into a room."
Dazzled indeed, they turned on their old flames, Bill and Hillary Clinton. They dumped John McCain, with whom they had flirted; and when Romney appeared -- rich, square, and looking like Dad in a mid-50s sitcom -- it was clear the long knives would be out.
And so they attacked him, on all of the critical issues. He was rich; he cut the hair of a schoolmate in prep school; he was rich; he transported his dog in a sinister manner; he was rich; he managed somehow to give some people cancer; he was rich; and he failed to make friends with his garbage collector (as Obama undoubtedly had). Oh, and he was rich.
On Sept. 12, the day after mobs ransacked American embassies, burned the flag and Obama in effigy, and killed one Marine, two Navy SEALs, and one ambassador, NBC's Chuck Todd took to the air almost in shock and seemingly tearful, because Romney critiqued an official in Cairo who apologized for provoking the riots, citing a barely-seen YouTube video as the pretext for the violence. Voice shaking, he channeled the shock on the part of the White House (which later itself condemned the apology).
For days after, Romney's "mistake" was the story. On Sunday, after a week in which Obama was burned in effigy on several continents and his Middle Eastern policy exposed as a failure, he lost his best (perhaps his sole) campaign issue, and questions were raised about criminal negligence. But Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post said that Mitt Romney had had "the worst week in Washington." Obama's failures had turned out to hurt Romney, most of the press corps agreed.
Obama had seen that his friends would protect him, and so he believed he could mail it in Wednesday, but this was the venue that could not be spun. No filter. No edits. No choosing what to put in or leave out. No shaping of the story. Just the story itself, rolled out in real time, sans narration, before 70 million American voters, undoing six years of hype and hysterics. It revealed one small, not all that keen academic, having been inflated by the narrators beyond all recognition, dissolving before everyone's eyes.
Examiner Columnist Noemie Emery is contributing editor to The Weekly Standard and author of "Great Expectations: The Troubled Lives of Political Families."
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That Romney ambush press conference was one of the most bizarre things I’ve ever seen. Close to the attacks and Ronney is ready for substantive questions on the issue. He gets not one but a dozen questions asked different ways about a press release from his campaign saying apologizing for our First Amendment rights isn’t a proper response.
Romney leaves the presser with an uncomfortable grin on his face. He can’t believe it either. (Or course, this shot was later turned to a ridiculing social media post.)
All of the MSM piles on Romney. Dead smoking bloody body of the Ambassador dragged through the streets be damned.
It’s not over yet. Obama has a big early advantage in early (fraud-laden) voting in Ohio, for example. And Biden is going to ambush Ryan with accusations of outright lies tomorrow, as well as a women’s issues brawl. This campaign is going to get very, very ugly, and Obama can still pull it out. WAY too much cockiness on our side, imho.
Not sure people living in the Soviet Union knew PRAVDA was spouting complete bs. After that presser, just close the books on American journalism. It’s a voluntary PC liberal cult.
Yet even amid those ruins. One MSNBC show tonight reported the 14 year old girl shot by the Taliban and (I hear) ridiculed Islam. Then Piers Morgan smacked down Little Debbie. Then Anderson Cooper had on a parent of one of the Seals killed who ridiculed Obama. Oh and the “shoot before aiming” question from ABC at the presser.
So maybe there is hope.
Odd TV is so profit driven and yet news is given free license to spout propagana no matter how low the ratings. Don’t they answer to shareholders? If for nonother reason the MSM needs some balance to fool those of us in flyover country into believing they aren’t totally state run media.
I don’t put too much stock in the “huge” early vote lead in Ohio. The numbers simply are not credible and seem far more likely to be a bad sample than a reason to panic.
I agree with you this is far from over though. In fact, Obama is still probably just the slightest of favorites at this point.
I do like the position Romney is in though. If he can maintain a small lead for another two weeks (past the second debate), then I will begin to get excited. If he can reach 50% plus in some of the major polls, then I will get VERY excited.
Correct.
It is about momentum and momentum swings and right now it is ALL Mitt.... Ryan needs to keep it going or hold court and Mitt again come next debate must add to his dominance he has now imposed on The Pretender in face to face, Mano on Mano combat.... We The People must also stay on target, engage daily and keep the eye on the prize.
It is about momentum and momentum swings and right now it is ALL Mitt.... Ryan needs to keep it going or hold court and Mitt again come next debate must add to his dominance he has now imposed on The Pretender in face to face, Mano on Mano combat.... We The People must also stay on target, engage daily and keep the eye on the prize.
Could this perception use some correction, LS, Ravi? You guys are actually on the ground there.
FReegards!
-——He was themselves as they wanted to be. ———
This was an interesting paragraph. What is says is that Obama, the Messiah in the flesh, the One, is diversity personified.
He is the complete package, the personification, of all the blue COEXIST bumper stickers.
I can believe that. I can see the basis for the delusion, the misguided HOPE.
The absentee numbers have already sharply cut into the pre-election day totals for Dems.
For lib media members (virtually all of the media), Obama is the realization of the liberal dream of the leftist, academic nutjob professor who prated to them in college about the future leftist utopia and got elected president. He is one of them (and of course black to boot). They just can’t give up of him simply because he’s been a complete disaster. And they can’t do the logic either. In short, after enacting or trying to enact many of the leftist policies they’ve believed for decades, they can’t understand why such policies always lead to disaster.
It’s a bad sample. Actual numbers from 880,000 early/absentee voters show dems requesting 30% of ballots and repubs requesting 23.4% of ballots as of this am. That leaves 47% unaffiliateds. For the Marist poll to show Obama winning 67% of the early vote that would mean he would take all 30% of the early dem vote which I assume he will and then another 80% of the 47% unaffiliateds leaving only 20% of the 47% unaffiliateds to repubs. That obviously does not pass the smell test. Bigtime. Rogue sample. Just use common sense here.
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