Yesterday, as the American consulate in Libya was smoking and the rioters were returning in Egypt, the President of the United States flew off to Las Vegas for a fundraiser while his spokesman was telling the American press corps that yesterday wasn’t really a normal political day. Had it been George W. Bush, the media would, right now, be marching on the White House with pitch forks and torches. Remember, on 9/11, as events were unfolding in Washington, the American media was crying for President Bush to return to Washington. They wanted Daddy at home in the White House where he could tuck them in bed, damn the security issues of getting him there.
I get that Chuck Todd is a former Democrat hill staffer. I get that the Politico is riddled with Democrats, some former activists and a former staffer for Debbie Wasserman Schultz. I get that Michael Scherer from Time magazine is a left wing reporter for Mother Jones and Salon.com turned respectable, “objective” journalist. I get that Ben Smith, leading up Buzz Feed, is a leftwing journalist paraded about as if he is some sort of objective reporter at a trendy site full of cat photos. What I really get is that the American media runs with a herd mentality, leans left, and yesterday collectively fell over their group think as they leaned so far left to focus on Mitt Romney and not President Obama. Yesterday, the American media beclowned itself in ways I didn’t really even think was possible, even knowing how in the tank for Barack Obama they are.
Yesterday, we learned that there were no Marines protecting our Ambassador to Libya despite State Department warnings about violence and kidnappings in the Benghazi. We already knew Al Qaeda was coming on strong there. But we relied on locals for support and now we know the locals betrayed us as they have in the past in Afghanistan and Iraq too.
Read Erickson's whole article. He gets this right. If there is a "story within a story" at all it's not what Romney said or didn't say, it's what the mainstream media apparently colluded to say instead of directing attention toward the weak, apologetic responses to the attack on America on the part of the White House.
Now we finally have proof that leading from behind actually gets the people out in front killed.
These magazines are nothing but employment opportunities for out of work politicians.
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An old Breitbart group blog post described this media behavor as stoner logic, as engaged in by much of the left. Key quote:
ReplyDeleteStoners always think that they are smarter than they really are. . . . They are all about feelings, not facts. They possess a detached sense of cause and effect. I recall one specific episode when I came home and tore into my stoner roommate for not having his share of the rent. His solution to his lack of rent was simple. See, the real problem wasn't his lack of money, but my reaction to it. I was far too stressed about the situation.
To them, the issue isn't that the Islamists killed the ambassador, the issue is Romney's reaction to that event.
Well, pikkumatti, since we currently have President Choom in the White House, it all makes sense.
ReplyDeleteRE: Stoner Logic. One dude I met in a club in Pittsburgh claimed that the reason he wasn't getting anywhere in life was the "onerous tax structure in Allegheny county." But I thought it was more likely that his lack of employment was due to the fact that he was an avid wake-n-baker.
ReplyDeleteonerous is the perfect stoner word. in fact it's stonerous.
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ReplyDelete"Awww, man, that was, like, totally stonerous,, dude."
Fits perfectly.
Well I always have hope for stoners that they'll pull out of the tail-spin, and many whom I've known have. But I have no hope for ideological bitter-enders.