This election year (seems like YEARS) has been such a media circus that I've not been inclined to comment one way or the other. It does seem, however, that if things continue on this same track it won't be too many more election cycles until we can all just ask the mainstream media who they have appointed for us. This election got frighteningly close to that very scenario.
Very early on it was more than clear Mr. Obama was the media darling. Prior to his rise from nowhere to media pop-star Mrs. Clinton was the shoe-in for the office. Yep! No point in anyone else even running for the office from either party.... Hillary was already President in the minds of the media. Then Ol' Joe Biden made that stupid comment about B. Obama being "the first black who was young and smart and clean and articulate" to run for President. In his mind it was the first time in history all those points had come together in a person of color. Needless to say the likes of Jessie Jackson, Al Sharpton, Shirley Chisholm, Alan Keyes, Carol Moseley Braun and Lenora Fulani would all take umbrage at that remark and Ms Chisholm has the distinction of being the first black to run back in 1972! (Old Joe Biden's tack isn't nearly as sharp as it should be for a man in his position)
WELL! Now the mainstream media really had something! Not only could they still get their socialist President but they could also atone for the sin of slavery by electing the first black! At this point Mrs. Clinton was toast and the only thing not on the scene then was the bus they were going to throw her under. (It was around the corner and picking up speed) As soon as the media climbed on board the Obama train Hillary dropped off the radar screens. Yeah... she *was* the presumed candidate but that was before the age of Obama. The Jr. Senator from New York was just going to have to bite one for the media team.
Unfortunately for the media Mrs Clinton was a woman who was not about to be denied her shot at the power of the big chair her husbands butt had warmed previously. And the nice thing about that was that the nation wouldn't have to wonder if she was getting blow jobs off the oval office while President. (Bill's whereabouts and the exact position of -his- trousers would be another matter) While the media ignored Hillary and downplayed her campaign the liberal women of America were getting ticked off royal. How DARE the media write a WOMAN off in favor of a young inexperienced black male! Ladies.... welcome to the wonderful world of the media driven liberal agenda in action.
About that time Mrs Clinton's campaign got a huge boost from the most unlikely of sources. None other than Rush Limbaugh came riding (on a white horse no doubt) to her political rescue. The tactic was dubbed "Operation Chaos" and it was designed to accomplish two things. Primary was to politically "bloody" Obama's nose and that would be achieved by the secondary goal of keeping Hillary viable in the race. You see by this time the media had declared that anything said about Obama that -they- didn't approve of was an unjustified political *attack* and would not be tolerated! Even using Obama's given middle -name- was deemed an attack! The ONLY person who had the machinery in place to go negative against Obama.... and get away with it... was Hillary. And how was Operation Chaos going to keep Hillary viable? Simple! The right would employ the same tactic the left had used to "select" John McCain for us. Register in the opposite party and vote for Hillary in the primaries!
The tactic worked amazingly well and kept Hillary in the race far longer than the media wished. The old Clinton attack machine.... used so effectively in the past against anyone the Clinton's felt threatened their power.... dug up all the dirt from Obama's past that the media had been struggling so hard to keep buried. Ultimately all it did was expose the dirt briefly prior to the media editing it out of their daily spin on the events of the day. Anything even remotely damaging to Obama was spiked as soon as possible. Never ending glowing praise and mindless worship was all that was permitted to see the light of day by the media. People... it's just this simple.... those who have the power to shape and control the exact nature of the content you are permitted to consume via the three media venues.... print.... radio and television.... have the power to control this country no matter who is in office.
Ultimately Hillary had to drop out but she served her purpose. The truth was now out there and for the liberal media it would be like herding cats to keep things under control. Still the media marches to the tune played by Hitler's Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda and National Enlightenment who famously decreed: "If you tell a big enough lie and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." That is exactly what we get day in and day out from the mainstream media. Their version of the "truth" and their "reality" repeated over and over again in never ending sound bites. And it works to this day! Those indoctrinated in the liberal run education system have been conditioned to swallow without question anything the media tells them. Most democrats are no different although some are finally waking up the the reality that the old democrat party they believed in...... kicked them to the curb years ago and has gone pure socialist instead.
Day after day we are told to accept with open arms Obama's "Change we can believe in!" That's IT! That, ladies and gentlemen, is the entire Obama message to the world. Actual specifics have been harder to come by than leftovers at an ant picnic. It's time to lay out some of the "change" the left wants us to embrace but that will take up a lot of space. I'll examine the vision the left has for this country in my next posting.... only without the rose colored glasses. Stay tuned, boys and girls, because it gets interesting from here one out!
Very early on it was more than clear Mr. Obama was the media darling. Prior to his rise from nowhere to media pop-star Mrs. Clinton was the shoe-in for the office. Yep! No point in anyone else even running for the office from either party.... Hillary was already President in the minds of the media. Then Ol' Joe Biden made that stupid comment about B. Obama being "the first black who was young and smart and clean and articulate" to run for President. In his mind it was the first time in history all those points had come together in a person of color. Needless to say the likes of Jessie Jackson, Al Sharpton, Shirley Chisholm, Alan Keyes, Carol Moseley Braun and Lenora Fulani would all take umbrage at that remark and Ms Chisholm has the distinction of being the first black to run back in 1972! (Old Joe Biden's tack isn't nearly as sharp as it should be for a man in his position)
WELL! Now the mainstream media really had something! Not only could they still get their socialist President but they could also atone for the sin of slavery by electing the first black! At this point Mrs. Clinton was toast and the only thing not on the scene then was the bus they were going to throw her under. (It was around the corner and picking up speed) As soon as the media climbed on board the Obama train Hillary dropped off the radar screens. Yeah... she *was* the presumed candidate but that was before the age of Obama. The Jr. Senator from New York was just going to have to bite one for the media team.
Unfortunately for the media Mrs Clinton was a woman who was not about to be denied her shot at the power of the big chair her husbands butt had warmed previously. And the nice thing about that was that the nation wouldn't have to wonder if she was getting blow jobs off the oval office while President. (Bill's whereabouts and the exact position of -his- trousers would be another matter) While the media ignored Hillary and downplayed her campaign the liberal women of America were getting ticked off royal. How DARE the media write a WOMAN off in favor of a young inexperienced black male! Ladies.... welcome to the wonderful world of the media driven liberal agenda in action.
About that time Mrs Clinton's campaign got a huge boost from the most unlikely of sources. None other than Rush Limbaugh came riding (on a white horse no doubt) to her political rescue. The tactic was dubbed "Operation Chaos" and it was designed to accomplish two things. Primary was to politically "bloody" Obama's nose and that would be achieved by the secondary goal of keeping Hillary viable in the race. You see by this time the media had declared that anything said about Obama that -they- didn't approve of was an unjustified political *attack* and would not be tolerated! Even using Obama's given middle -name- was deemed an attack! The ONLY person who had the machinery in place to go negative against Obama.... and get away with it... was Hillary. And how was Operation Chaos going to keep Hillary viable? Simple! The right would employ the same tactic the left had used to "select" John McCain for us. Register in the opposite party and vote for Hillary in the primaries!
The tactic worked amazingly well and kept Hillary in the race far longer than the media wished. The old Clinton attack machine.... used so effectively in the past against anyone the Clinton's felt threatened their power.... dug up all the dirt from Obama's past that the media had been struggling so hard to keep buried. Ultimately all it did was expose the dirt briefly prior to the media editing it out of their daily spin on the events of the day. Anything even remotely damaging to Obama was spiked as soon as possible. Never ending glowing praise and mindless worship was all that was permitted to see the light of day by the media. People... it's just this simple.... those who have the power to shape and control the exact nature of the content you are permitted to consume via the three media venues.... print.... radio and television.... have the power to control this country no matter who is in office.
Ultimately Hillary had to drop out but she served her purpose. The truth was now out there and for the liberal media it would be like herding cats to keep things under control. Still the media marches to the tune played by Hitler's Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda and National Enlightenment who famously decreed: "If you tell a big enough lie and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." That is exactly what we get day in and day out from the mainstream media. Their version of the "truth" and their "reality" repeated over and over again in never ending sound bites. And it works to this day! Those indoctrinated in the liberal run education system have been conditioned to swallow without question anything the media tells them. Most democrats are no different although some are finally waking up the the reality that the old democrat party they believed in...... kicked them to the curb years ago and has gone pure socialist instead.
Day after day we are told to accept with open arms Obama's "Change we can believe in!" That's IT! That, ladies and gentlemen, is the entire Obama message to the world. Actual specifics have been harder to come by than leftovers at an ant picnic. It's time to lay out some of the "change" the left wants us to embrace but that will take up a lot of space. I'll examine the vision the left has for this country in my next posting.... only without the rose colored glasses. Stay tuned, boys and girls, because it gets interesting from here one out!
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