Posted on 10/08/2008 11:20:59 AM PDT by pabianice
It's clear that, despite our best efforts, our messages are being blocked and lied about by the Protitute Press. I had believed that the power of the net and the few balanced TV outlets would help McCain in this election. Clearly, they have not.
Simple question: what media outlsets do we have with which to counter the Marxist/Stalinist press? Be specific. I'm watching Palin at a rally right now. How can she be so good on the stump and have no measurable effect upon the campaign?
McCain is on TV now, setting a rally on fire. WHERE WAS HE LAST NIGHT AT THE DEBATE?
That was a horrible performance by McCain last night.
Its like shouting from the bottom of a well. You might be Daniel Webster and it won't make any difference if you can't be heard.
Bush occasionally would go on tour to "get his message out", going city to city, spending untold millions of dollars, and the outcome of that would be a 10 second piece of video showing him behind a mic, with the TV anchor doing the voice-over, a 10 second synopsis of a speech he went to enormous effort and expense to deliver.
All for nothing, because the only ones who heard it were the very few present. America at large heard none of it.
Palin and McCain are spending millions traveling and speaking, and its for nothing because no one not present will ever here anything they have to say. You'll get a piece of video and a voice-over, and thats it.
When your enemy has a monopoly on communications, and you are reduced to begging the loan of his mic, your goose is cooked. Its been like this for decades and Repubs have yet to take this problem seriously; they continue to humiliate themselves before the likes of Couric and Whoopi Goldberg in hopes of somehow some way communicating with actual voters. When Couric and Whoopi are your means of communications you've already conceded the election. Save your money and save the wear and tear on your campaign buses and just admit that you're not running a serious campaign. Why bother.
Politics is applied philosophy, and it is fundamentally an information war and a culture war.
The information and culture war is fought on 3 fronts:
1. The schools and universities.
2. The news media.
3. The entertainment media.
We have conceded all three battlefields to the enemy. Rather than create our own options we continue to use our opponent’s infrastructure and then wonder why we are losing.
The only one carrying the Palin speech is Fox.
Everyone else uses soundbites.
Palin and McCain have only a few free chances to reach a huge market...the debates. The debate last night was time not terribly well used.
They have one more chance for a free opportunity to go over the talking heads direct to America.
Other than that, it will have to be direct TV advertising buys and the ground game.
Excellent posts, #4 and #5.
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