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July 20, 2008
We Are Doomed
P.C. feels like a repeat. Something about Winslow eating Carmen. Make of that whatever you wish.
Instead, did you hear that the prime minister of Iraq has endorsed Barack Obama's plan for withdrawal? This comes on the heels of the White House announcing a plan for a time "horizon" (not a timeline, of course, but a horizon - as E.J. Dionne pointed out, isn't the horizon something you can see but you can never actually reach?). Oh and there are plans to send more troops to Afghanistan, something Obama has been pushing for all along. And then of course there's Bush basically calling Obama an appeaser for saying we should talk with Iran - and this week Bush sent one of our diplomats to talk with - you guessed it - Iran.
Can you imagine if this had been the other way around? What if Maliki had endorsed McCain's 100 year plan? The media would be all over it, talking about how Obama doesn't have the experience and this just proves that McCain should be our next dictator - er, I mean "president." Instead, I'm guessing the Maliki story will be buried, and they'll continue to find ways to gush over McCain while trying to destroy Obama.
Check out this glorious quote from John Kass of the Chicago Tribune:
Asking whether TV network news shops had liberal bias was a bit like wondering what would happen if you left the hungry little boy alone in the room with the large box of Turkish Delights.
The outcome was never in doubt.
So it was reported last week that since June, the network news spent a thin 48 minutes covering crusty Republican Sen. John McCain, and 114 glorious minutes covering the cool guy they love, the liberal Democrat, Illinois' own Sen. Barack Obama.
This guy might actually be more delusional than Stantis. Where is it written that everything said or written about Obama is POSITIVE? Hey Kass, did you take into account how much of that Obama coverage was because Jesse Jackson said he wanted to cut his nuts off? In the meantime, John McCain's top economic adviser said that Americans are just a bunch of whiners and that the economy is great, McCain repeatedly referred to Czechoslovakia as a current country, and made crude jokes about killing innocent Persians because that's just "McCain being McCain."
Does John Kass honestly believe that Barack Obama got 114 minutes of positive coverage this month? Really? Somebody get this guy a comic strip, because he could give Stantis a run for his money.
But that's how the conservative mindset of "heads I win, tails you lose" works. "Look at how much coverage Obama gets compared to McCain!" is the storyline, but don't you dare explore exactly how much of that coverage was negative (my guess: most of it). Yet John McCain's had a month so bad it would have ruined other presidential contenders, yet he's doing better than ever thanks to the mostly positive media coverage he gets.
Unfortunately it's just going to get worse. The media critics will still ramble on about a "liberal media" that only exists in their little minds, John McCain will be portrayed as our next president, and silly Barack Obama will be branded a lefty liberal loon who can't be trusted for various (mostly racist) reasons. It's a shame that people in the media don't take Carmen's advice about rising above that type - instead they're all just like Stantis, and won't let the truth get in the way of a good smearing (or attempted joke).
