So brace yourself now for the Mother of all October Surprises. It's going to be an invented scandal a day, drip, drip, drip, turning into a torrent in the final week before election day.
What do I recommend?
This: No matter what you see or hear that is negative about McCain-Palin, do not believe it. I don't care how egregious the charge may be: McCain is a Manchurian candidate, Palin snorted cocaine, her husband tortured animals... I don't care. Don't believe it.
This is not willful ignorance; it is informed decision making. The press has lost all credibility. Reporters are naked Democratic partisans. Remember Dan Rather and the faked George Bush National Guard letter that he still insists was true? And how about all the false stories they peddled about Sarah Palin: Faked pregnancy, banning books, extramarital affair... All BS.
But all that is peanuts compared to what they will cook up when they get desperate. Don't believe me? Democratic Party functionary and ex-Clinton aide Mark Penn says the press has lost credibility in its mad rush to discredit Sarah Palin:
I think here the media is on very dangerous ground. I think that when you see them going through every single expense report that Governor Palin ever filed, if they don't do that for all four of the candidates, they're on very dangerous ground. I think the media so far has been the biggest loser in this race. And they continue to have growing credibility problems.
I think that the media is doing the kinds of stories on Palin that they're not doing on the other candidates. And that's going to subject them to people concluding that they're giving her a tougher time.
What happened here very clearly is that the controversy over Palin led to 37 million Americans tuning into a vice-presidential speech, something that is unprecedented, because they wanted to see for themselves. This is an election in which the voters are going to decide for themselves. The media has lost credibility with them.
2 comments:
"This is not willful ignorance..."
"No matter what you see or hear that is negative about McCain-Palin, do not believe it."
This seems to be right on par with the messages the GOP are sending out right now.
The media has lost all credibility due to their inability to discuss the issues and potential solutions since...well, since as long as I've been watching political coverage. If they would quit eating up the drivel that both sides are spouting out to distract voters from their rather sad platforms, then perhaps for once we could actually hear how the candidates propose to cure what ails us.
Nah. Pigs wearing lipstick.
Note that I quoted a Democratic Party operative saying the press has lost its credibility.
We'd probably agree that too much discussion about lipstick or whatever wastes time that should be spent talking about substantive issues. I often wonder if that's intentional...
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