The corporate media manufactures who's up, who's down, who's in, who's out.
Matt Taibbi confirms what I have always thought about Obama. Every inch of him
is a media creation. Did you fall in love with Obama? Well sure, what's not to
love? The media said drink the cool aid and everyone got drunk. Did you hate
Hillary? Well sure, what's not to hate? The media said she's an evil bitch, and
the Obots took it as such an article of faith that simply mentioning her name
caused them to froth at the mouth.
Did you ever notice how easily it is for the media to create a villain? All you
need is a few sound bites, one or two unflattering pictures, a dash of spin out
of context, throw in a heap of sexism and you've got a bonafide meme that makes
you think up is down. Depending on how much cool aid you drink, you'll swear
it's the honest to goodness truth that Obama is the Savior and Hillary is the
Devil. Is anyone capable of independent thought anymore? The media trashed
Bill, Howard, George W., Kerry and Hillary. Now they're trashing Sarah. Go
ahead and froth away, Obots. This is Matt Taibbi talking to ya. NB: The media
worm can turn on Obama as well. RD
"When the press corps decides to abandon all restraint and go for the head
shot, it usually tells us a lot more about the reporters' bosses and what
they're thinking than it does about the reporters themselves. Your average
political reporter is a spineless dweeb who went to all the best schools and
made it to that privileged seat inside the campaign-trail ropeline by being
keenly sensitive to the editorial wishes of his social and professional
superiors.
When their bosses were for the war, they were for the war, and they
battered any candidate who was "weak on foreign policy." When the political
winds shifted four years later and the consensus inside the Beltway suddenly
was that Iraq had been a hideous mistake, the campaign-trail reporters
mysteriously started sounding like Sixties peaceniks on the plane and they
hammered Hillary for refusing to admit her error on the Iraq vote (none of
these pundits had to admit their mistake on the same question, but whatever),
clearing the way for Obama.
The tone for all this behavior is always set somewhere way up the corporate
totem pole, and it always reflects some dreary combination of simple business
considerations (i.e. what's the best story and sells the most ads) and
internalized political calculus (i.e. who is a "legitimate" candidate and who
is an "insurgent" or a "second-tier" hopeful).
Once the signal comes down that this or that politician doesn't have the
backing of anyone who matters, that's when the knives really come out. When a
politician has powerful allies and powerful friends, you won't see reporters
brazenly kicking him in the crotch the way they did to Dean and they're doing
now to Sarah Palin. The only time they do this is when they know there won't be
consequences, meaning when the politician's only supporters are non-entities
(read: voters), as in the case of Ron Paul or Kucinich. Like America in
general, the press corps never attacks any enemy that can fight back.
The press corps that is bashing her skull in right now is the same one that
hyped that WMD horseshit for like four solid years and pom-pommed America to
war with Iraq over the screeching objections of the entire planet. It's the
same press corps that rolled out the red carpet for someone very nearly as
abjectly stupid as Sarah Palin to win not one but two terms in the White House."
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http://riverdaughter.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/yes-sarah-there-is-a-media-conspiracy/
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http://trueslant.com/matttaibbi/2009/11/23/yes-sarah-there-is-a-media-conspiracy/
